"I know there are alot of 1 and 2 man operations struggling to produce and there are alot of larger guys wanting to scale down so mabey my story can help.
I documented one weeks of production during the Christmas rush where I did 73 units. Mabey Ill post a thread on it in a couple of weeks."
I know that im fairly new to this forum, but have been on others for some time now. When I read this, you will have to pardon my disbelief.. A post of a 1 or 2 man operation doing $28k a month or 40-80 units a week. Dont get me wrong, your work is beautiful, and worth far more than $100 a unit, but how on earth do you manage to get out 40-80 units a week at that quality? I understand being quick and efficient, but Ive never heard of one person putting out that much work by themselves. Do you not have any help with waxing/metal? I mean, Im young and can hustle, and I feel i work fairly efficiently, but Ive killed myself trying to get out over 100 units a month. Granted, I am doing all model work, billing, shipping, delivering.. everything start to finish.. Theres no way you can complete that much work in an 8-10 hour day.. help me out here...
Ive worked at production labs too, and the work is crap.. I just dont see a way for one person to do high quality work with having to trim 10 dies, prep 10 dies, wax 10, invest, cast, finish 10 units, opaque 10, build, cut, glaze, qc.. all in one day.. everyday..
All the respect in the world, really! Maybe im just missing something here..