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| The Geller Method to Pricing Laser Jobs |
Having a laser welder is a necessity in a shop today. When my father’s shop foreman was teaching me to be a jeweler he told me there were two things to master to be a good jeweler:
Everything else was a piece of cake. Many times I’ve melted a hollow chain or have an item that was repaired before fall apart in my bench pan. A laser welder virtually takes away the problems with a torch. In fact many simple repairs done with a laser can be taught to a high school student.
In the new Geller Book to Repair pricing we’ve added laser welding prices for tips and prongs, have had it previously for ring sizing and shanks. Here’s what I know about a laser welder that you should consider:
- 75% of all repairs will go faster when using a laser.
- 25% of the repairs, although doing a better job, will go slower than using a torch.
- Forget the $25,000 to $30,000 price tag; it’s leased for $300-$450 a month. That’s less than having another good jeweler working for you just 20 hours a month!
- Being it doesn’t use heat you reduce the chance harming fragile stones to almost nothing and repairs can be done without removing 90% of the stones you used to pull just to do a simple weld.
If a repair goes faster with a laser welder my suggestion is to take the money from...
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GIA says to clarity grade them as they would be without the clarity enhancement, but it seems next to impossible to know what that would be without removing the enhancement.
After clarity grading, how do I price them?
Currently I'm appraising them as (1) the value they would be without the clarity enhancement, plus (2) the cost of enhancing them. Is that a valid method?
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