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I agree with this to a point. Sooner or later, you are melting glass as fast an anyone possibly can. You can only go as fast as the torch will let you - believe me I have tried.
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Then it's time to get a bigger torch.
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I'm all for efficiency, no matter if it's melting glass, cutting glass or anything else. When I sewed mass production, I had those seams lined up one after the other to keep from clipping threads and moving stuff around. I couldn't make that sewing machine go as fast as I could feed it in.
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Efficiency isn't just about working fast - it's also about minizing all non-productive effort. Compare it with typing. The way to type quicker isn't to try to move your fingers quicker, but to reduce the time between the finger movements.
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There comes a time when it just won't go any faster. I used to price plain beads without a lot of decoration way, way cheaper thinking that it would be wrong to charge for the lack of design and originality in them. Then I realized, heck it took me time to wrap that plain glass around the mandrel. I still charge less for plainer beads but the gap has narrowed.
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The first stage is to get as quick as you can with a design that works. The next stage is to specifically design things that take less time to make. Design efficiency is more important then work efficiency.