[Jewelry making - Article 00502] - Re: [Orchid] Pricing those custom waxes

[Daniel R. Spirer]

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>     Meaning that you're not going to fool anybody into paying $1200
>     for a $90 wax - you'll be the fool. I'm reading here about $750
>     waxes and such, and it's like "Huh?" 

    I don't do many waxes as I prefer to make up models for customers in
    metal but my base charge to make up a custom piece--wax or model (and
    by custom I mean anything I don't already make exactly the same, or
    have made in the past and I have a mold or model for) is $850. I get
    that price all the time for my work. No one who is buying from me is
    a fool. They just know that they want my work. They know that they
    won't get what I offer anywhere else. And frankly, I'm far from the
    most expensive for this. Shreve, Crump and Low (at least before their
    latest bankruptcy) starts their custom work at $1500. Maybe on the
    wholesale end you can't get these kind of prices but I know a few
    carvers who's work is certainly worth that much. 

Daniel R. Spirer, G.G.
Daniel R. Spirer Jewelers, LLC
1780 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140
617-234-4392
www.spirerjewelers.com

 
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