Interest in Hinges?
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:33 pm
Hello
This *might* be better posted on the "for sale" thread, but I think that many of the folks I want to ask don't frequent that forum
I'm considering doing a production run of hinges for gauntlets, vambraces etc. (3-lobe for gauntlets, 4-lobe for everything else) and thought that before I spend too much time getting pricing and schedule details I'd see if there was enough interest to do a large run (and thus lower the unit costs) and what the price would need to be for folks to be interested.
I'd consider brass, steel and stainless steel as materials, with thicknesses of 0.032" (22 Ga) or 0.025" (24 Ga) for stainless.
While I will be investigating patterns, right now I am loking at getting rectangular hinge bodies made so that they can be customized by the user (or just riveted inside for 4-lobe hinges)
The 4-lobe hinge would look like this
The 3-lobe hinge would look like this
and you could finish it to be a nice gothic hinge, or I can look into the cost to get them made like this
These hinges all used 0.040" material, and they are crazy-thick and bulky: period thicknesses are in the 0.040-0.050" range for BOTH layers of metal
Articles on making your own hinges (and making them pretty) can be found here:
http://borealissteel.com/Articles/Hinge ... ction.html
http://borealissteel.com/Articles/Hinge ... ation.html
I'm hopng for some responses like:
20 3-lobe hinges, Brass or stainless, $10 per hinge
Would be willing to pay an additional $2/hinge if they were shaped like (insert picture of your favorite hinge pattern)
Obviously if I can get hinges made for less, that's the price I will charge, but being able to look at how many folks are interested at what cost level will help me decide what I should be aiming for at the fabricators (or whether I bother - I have a couple of dozen hinges built as a result of doing "how to" webpages...) That said I would like to see nicer gear out there, and that means getting folks access to better materials - home depot hinges just don't cut it for armour!
Scott Martin
This *might* be better posted on the "for sale" thread, but I think that many of the folks I want to ask don't frequent that forum
I'm considering doing a production run of hinges for gauntlets, vambraces etc. (3-lobe for gauntlets, 4-lobe for everything else) and thought that before I spend too much time getting pricing and schedule details I'd see if there was enough interest to do a large run (and thus lower the unit costs) and what the price would need to be for folks to be interested.
I'd consider brass, steel and stainless steel as materials, with thicknesses of 0.032" (22 Ga) or 0.025" (24 Ga) for stainless.
While I will be investigating patterns, right now I am loking at getting rectangular hinge bodies made so that they can be customized by the user (or just riveted inside for 4-lobe hinges)
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- Hinge_With_Pin.jpg (25.1 KiB) Viewed 173 times
- Polished_Hinge.jpg (18.44 KiB) Viewed 173 times
These hinges all used 0.040" material, and they are crazy-thick and bulky: period thicknesses are in the 0.040-0.050" range for BOTH layers of metal
Articles on making your own hinges (and making them pretty) can be found here:
http://borealissteel.com/Articles/Hinge ... ction.html
http://borealissteel.com/Articles/Hinge ... ation.html
I'm hopng for some responses like:
20 3-lobe hinges, Brass or stainless, $10 per hinge
Would be willing to pay an additional $2/hinge if they were shaped like (insert picture of your favorite hinge pattern)
Obviously if I can get hinges made for less, that's the price I will charge, but being able to look at how many folks are interested at what cost level will help me decide what I should be aiming for at the fabricators (or whether I bother - I have a couple of dozen hinges built as a result of doing "how to" webpages...) That said I would like to see nicer gear out there, and that means getting folks access to better materials - home depot hinges just don't cut it for armour!
Scott Martin