New Rings available
as of January 2007
It has been a long two
years since Hemphill Spring was bought by a corporation and became unable to
fit making rings into their schedule.
Many of you have been
disappointed by my decision to stop selling rings but it was necessary, I
barely made it thru this last season and indeed ran out of 27’s and 32’s at the
end.
We sent samples and
negotiated with over a dozen manufacturers, contacted 2 equipment makers and
chased down their recommendations and had quotes as low as 5 cents per ring and
as high as 20cents since I have been selling my maille for 14 cents per ring
these prices would not work.
Finally last March we
obtained the machine Hemphill had been using to make the rings for the last 20
years (it was old when they started and that is why they were willing to
attempt the modifications to make closed rings (ends aligned and touching) and
it is now set up on the property of the man who has run that machine for the
last 15 years or more.
I now have accounts with shippers,
metal suppliers and have invested in all the affiliated shipping supplies.
I have received the first
run and they are beautiful. Not surprising, the operator does a better job
working for himself.
Unfortunately prices are
going up and I am changing how I deal with volume discounts.
In the past I have started
prices at
6 cent each for 100
dropping to 2 cent each for 10,000 or more of the same size and kind of ring
NEW PRICING
The new pricing should be easier to understand. 3
cents per ring (any quantity) plus $10 per size/color handling charge; plus
shipping (no additional charge for credit cards.)
For
those of you who have not used my rings and wonder why people would pay 3 cents
for my rings when there are cheaper available on the web. The answer is simple;
my rings are created with their ends aligned and touching or closed. This means
half the work is done for you. To assemble 10,000 rings you only need to close
5000. most knitters close between 200 and 350 rings an hour.