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"sweet sawdust" wrote:

I have a customer who wants me to make some Christmas ornaments in
quantities of around 1000+ units. Each ornament would require five spindle
turnings the smallest being about 5/16 "dia to 1/4" dia and about 2 inches
long. I can cut these by hand with no problem, when I tried a duplicator
all I got was fancy fire wood. Since I don't want to even think about
turning all of them by hand, and the cost would be outasight, I contacted
some commercial turning concerns and they turned me down. Size is two small
for thier equipment. Also contacted WPMA and they told me "Good Luck" but
had no one they knew of. Any one out there have any ideas.

Charge more. Bulk discounts don't apply when bulk does not equal less
cost per unit to make.

You could try a router duplicator rather than a dead-chisel duplicator,
unless that's revealing some deep dark secret that the cabal doesn't wan
^%^!%#@^&!%$!$^%...

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