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For example, a maker may quote a custom piece at $800. While making it, they may discover that they should have asked for more because it's more involved than they thought. They shouldn't change prices once they've agreed on it with that customer, of course. But the next person who orders it may get $1000 as the quote on the same project. Plus the price of labor and materials has changed in the past few years, too. It's best to do what A&A's website says: Contact them for a current quote. :) |
I have to agree with Chad from personal experience here: I have a " talent " for thinking of " interesting " projects that seem to cause the makers to sort of regret the " quotes " they gave me as the designs seem to be much more challenging than they thought. ;) :lol:
Sometimes the difficulties have just been bad luck with heat treating or more than expected complexities in the grind lines or forging.
Anyway, I'm sure that if someone wanted the same designs made the cost would be 300% after the maker(s) really knows how much work it's going to be. ;)
Here is one example: http://www.myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t...p;start=60
Picks on page 4 of the finished Langue de Boeuf and pics on page 2 of early concept drawings in attachments.
Here is another project being made by OlliN, assuming you haven't seen these Topics before:
http://www.myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=8131
Notice that both of these projects became or have become multi year projects for all sorts of valid reasons.
Now custom projects aren't always this long to finish but sometimes they can be actually even longer ! Look at these as prototypes: More copies would be priced higher but at the same time the process of making them would be easier for the maker to figure out a price where he is actually making a profit.
Less extreme projects similar to other things that the maker has already made might be more accurately priced and timelined. ( Estimated delivery times shorter. :D ).
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