How a commission works
Five Things to Know Before You Start
Photographs, size and metal, cost, timing, and the things we will not do.
Four or five good photographs is enough to tell you whether this will work, what it costs, and how long it takes.
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Fine silver, hand-poured, made in the USA
1 of 1
The design is retired after casting. Yours is the only one
2004
Casting solid metal since
Approved
You see and sign off the design before any metal is poured
5 how a commission works
Read the memorial page if this piece is being made after a loss.
The Photographs
The photographs are the whole brief. Everything about the finished piece comes from what we can see in them.
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Size & Metal
The weight of metal is the largest single input, so size and cost are almost the same decision.
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Turnaround
Four stages, and the one that varies most is the one you control.
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Memorial Pieces
Many of these are commissioned after an animal has died. It changes nothing about how the piece is made and quite a lot about how we handle the conversation.
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What We Will Not Do
Five things we decline, and the reasons. It is a short list and it is better read before you commission than discovered after.
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Next step
Run it both ways before you decide.
No credit check and no obligation. Tell us what you hold and what the money is for, and if selling is the better answer for your situation you will be told that first.