jewelry commissions

[sierra11b]

Guy I know is getting married and wants to be involved somehow. I recommended that he design the wedding set seeing how him and his wife were leaning toward some tricked-out Ti ideas. I know BladeGallery has a list of jewelry makers but I was wondering if anyone knew of any knife makers that take jewelry commissions, just so he has more options.

Thanks,
Eric

 

[Cougar Allen]

 

[Gollnick]

Many knife makers do jewelry too. And you will be very surprised at the pricing because jewelry store jewelry is VERY high mark-up stuff.

So, you can buy a very nice production folder for $100 retail. But a custom may cost $400. But, in jewelry, the markup on retail is so high that custom-made is price-competive with retail.

The problems are: 1) delicate work. Most knife makers -- there are exceptions -- are not set up to do the kinds of delicate soldering and so forth tha some styles of jewlery requires. 2) design. Many knife makers have very -- how shall we say it? -- masculine design paradigms and may not be able to do a wedding set that will please the bride.

 

[Dijos]

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