1,000,000 repairs

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

I was looking at the books today and realized that I have used 150,000 repairs envelopes in the last 40 years. Some were single items, and others were bags of ten or more pieces. The average is 3-4 pieces per repair. For every customer that had an envelope, there was easily a job done while the customer waited that had no envelope. The total is over one million pieces of jewelry through my hands. It boggles my mind that I have done this much work!

To make it worse, I wash my hands at least 50 times a day ( and my finger tips are still black). That would be about 1/2 million hand washings. No wonder my hands are wrinkled

 

[mete]

Well done Stacy !! But don't forget McDonald's !

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Back in the early 1970's I was a corporate manager for McDonalds. We only had about 2000 restaurants and a brand new shape to the stores and the arches (M-shape),....... but we had already switched to changing the signs by the billion ( we hit 10 billion while I was with them).

I trained myself as a jeweler while I was with them.

 

[Bruce Bump]

Thats a career right there. You can retire to the shop now.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

From your lips to God's ears!

 

[Atlas Knife Company]

2000 hours x 60 minutes = 120,000 minutes x 40 years = 4,800,000 minutes. Under 5 minutes per repair, very impressive!

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Some days I change fifty watch batteries. Luckily, it only takes me 15-20 seconds on most watches.