01-18-2005, 04:25 PM
yeah, I\'m not kidding when I saw I don\'t make squat on the gloves. Not when you consider the enormous amount of time each glove takes, the aging and weathering of the leather and metal pieces, the emails and board stuff, checking shipments and supplies, answering emails and posting pictures. Not to mention just the shipping usually costs about $15.
I don\'t make em for money, if I did I\'d charge $500. for each, then I would feel like I was making back all the money spent on time and supplies and having a little left over that I could actually call profit. Every glove I\'ve sold any profit I had went right back to buying supplies. Just the leather gloves have to be bought at a dozen a time, and that\'s not cheap. Not to mention how many \'left\' gloves have I thrown away? lol.
When I say, "I don\'t make them that cheap for a reason" I\'m talking about cheap in terms of price and in terms of quality. Noone is using thicker copper or brass. I\'ve owned gloves from just about everyone, and there\'s reasons I make my own. Design flaws in other gloves usually, but alot of times, they just look nothing like the movie. If you want a \'Jason\' mask, you want a mask that looks like the one in the movie. Not just any old goalie mask will do. But when it comes to a razorglove? Alot of people will settle for just \'any old glove.\'
The people that buy from me are ones who don\'t want to settle, and they appreciate quality.
Let me put it another way. My gloves look pretty and can still puncture a skull.
Can the other \'pretty\' gloves do that?
I don\'t make em for money, if I did I\'d charge $500. for each, then I would feel like I was making back all the money spent on time and supplies and having a little left over that I could actually call profit. Every glove I\'ve sold any profit I had went right back to buying supplies. Just the leather gloves have to be bought at a dozen a time, and that\'s not cheap. Not to mention how many \'left\' gloves have I thrown away? lol.
When I say, "I don\'t make them that cheap for a reason" I\'m talking about cheap in terms of price and in terms of quality. Noone is using thicker copper or brass. I\'ve owned gloves from just about everyone, and there\'s reasons I make my own. Design flaws in other gloves usually, but alot of times, they just look nothing like the movie. If you want a \'Jason\' mask, you want a mask that looks like the one in the movie. Not just any old goalie mask will do. But when it comes to a razorglove? Alot of people will settle for just \'any old glove.\'
The people that buy from me are ones who don\'t want to settle, and they appreciate quality.
Let me put it another way. My gloves look pretty and can still puncture a skull.
Can the other \'pretty\' gloves do that?