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Published: 2008-01-01 20:04:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 967; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 6
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Another take on my new shank design. This ring is a size 6, and again uses a sterling silver shank with shibuichi and 14k gold for the other elements. I need pricing opinions on these; I'm currently leaning towards $120-$150.Related content
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Beautiful ring, love the lily design!
Price sounds fine to me as an Aussie. Individual pieces deserve individual prices. Man can not live by bread alone.
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True enough, but the bread helps - if I want to make sales, I need to attract paying customers. Thank you.
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This really brings out the lily-inspiration of the piece. Great angle!
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It was your comment on the last ring that sort of solidified in my mind the idea of using a lily for a design element. Thank you.
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Preeeetty. 
Unfortunately individual artists usually don't get paid more than companies that mass-produce ring designs etc and Sarah's right-o... Depending on the type of hurry you're in you can definitly try for that much (what would it hurt?) but if you wanna get rid of it asap I wouldn't go higher than $100. That sounds about right.
It also depends how famous you are sometimes. I'm never going to get how much I think my stuff would be worth at this rate. I just keep pumping it out in hopes one day I'll get more than a hill of beans for it like famous PC artists like Christi Friesen. And I have a major advantage - polymer clay is cheap. Silver is not. Sad I be for zee smithies of the world. *patpat*
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My pricing was based in part on the surprising (to me) price paid for a custom silver guitar pick that I saw, which I know for a fact took little more than an hour to hack out in a well-equipped shop. I suppose it's got a lot to do with who you're selling to.
This design isn't actually all that horribly difficult to make. It's very repeatable, and even at $100 for this piece I can pay myself an industry-fair wage. IF I sell the piece, that is. I'll give Etsy a try in the near future, but what I've seen of it thus far looks like more artisans cutting their own throats to get an edge over the multitude of other artisans until everybody is working for peanuts. Maybe I'm wrong. In any case, thank you for the support.
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lol I know what you mean. Undercutting is a real killer in any industry. But art has an advantage! 
No one's going to find a ring just like this anytime soon though.
People will always pay uberly much for commissions!
Christi Friesen as I mentioned can make a piece in about 20 minutes and the cost is next to nothing unless she puts rare gems in it which she sometimes does, in any case her cheapest little doolios go for around $50 - just cuz she's well-known. Markup for commissions are up to 50% and more. If people are any good at working off of other peoples' muses and concepts there's a killing to be made, and at that point undercutting is a lot less of an issue.
Anyways I jes' blabbin'. Meow.
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Commissions, aha. That would be the factor I haven't been thinking about. You know, I really need to standardize my price scale. In any case, thanks for "blabbin'"; it was just the bit of information I needed.
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Hehe glad I could help. 
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That's a bit steep for sterling, even if hand made with gold. I've paid as much as 85 for a SS ring, but it had a semi precious stone in it. Just my opinion.
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Okay, I'll give that some more thought then. Thanks. And thank you for the favourite.
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