Raiders March
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Don't overpay on finishing these cherubs guys. As perfect as you will receive them from sskunky, the chroming process can still crack or lift slightly over time. So don't throw too much money to the chrome guys!
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That’s vastly overpriced for these. I didn’t pay nearly that much for them to be done at the place that did the originals. You shouldn’t be paying much over $100-$150 per piece. The only reason we charged more was because every 10 there were only maybe 3 perfect Cherubs and our customers expected perfection. So a lot of man how’s was spent re-preparing the rejects for chroming again.
There should be next to no work needed doing with our casts. Maybe a degrease and going over with a fine tooth comb if you are as anal as me.
That’s vastly overpriced for these. I didn’t pay nearly that much for them to be done at the place that did the originals. You shouldn’t be paying much over $100-$150 per piece. The only reason we charged more was because every 10 there were only maybe 3 perfect Cherubs and our customers expected perfection. So a lot of man how’s was spent re-preparing the rejects for chroming again.
There should be next to no work needed doing with our casts. Maybe a degrease and going over with a fine tooth comb if you are as anal as me. ��
Mark, is there any chance you could offer a limited number of these that are already chromed? I get why you are offering the pre-step version for those building an Ark to match, but there really is another strong group of us here that have no knowledge about where to go, questions to ask and how to direct expectations to finish this! We could really benefit from you managing a bulk order for pricing and would be supportive to pay what you need to charge. In fact, I have not decided for sure, but this could be the deciding factor in me going ahead with a purchase. Thanks for any consideration!!
damn, the details in these things are beautiful. does the chroming lose some of the detail work? aproximate size for these is? thanks!
That’s good to know. Thank you for saying as much. I have no idea what’s a fair price for that step and I couldn’t really find anyone to get back to me about wanting to do it.
Sean
I’m pretty sure they were just taking the ****.batmann,
did the quote that you procured account for ensuring that the chrome process looked perfect (as Mark had done for the initial run)? Maybe that was the reason for the higher quote?
I can look into it but........ this process is not perfect and is hand finished. This means there may be the odd imperfections on the surface. Sometimes dust particles get caught up in the process and other factors mean the surface has tiny marks. I’m only talking tiny and once on display you’d never see them but I will not be redoing any of them as that requires very careful fine sanding to allow the chrome to be reapplied and quite frankly I simply do not have the time to do this.
I can put you down for a chromed pair and if I get enough interest I’ll get some prices.
The other factor is price. The last chromed run I did was £1150 a pair. I may be able to bring this price down a bit if I’m not spending hours/days redoing them.
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batmann,
did the quote that you procured account for ensuring that the chrome process looked perfect (as Mark had done for the initial run)? Maybe that was the reason for the higher quote?