Guest Iain Cheall Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 Hee hee knew that would get you to look. As most of you know it's been said more than once here that I am too cheap so I have took a pic or 2 of a job I am doing and before I say what I am charging I want you lot to give me your price. I promise I won't cheat but if you like I will pm Hugh with my price before we go further and he can referee this. right then a description of the job. It is a 6" by 3" 1.5mm brass plate, 2 fixing holes screws with coned cap screws (from Mastergrave) and a backing board. Engraved with 65 letters forming 8 words and a number over 4 lines. text as follows middlesbrough by design limited registered office company number 06320856 engraved in ariel lower case font infilled black. Also across the top is a logo / design infilled in blue. as you can see i haven't drilled the holes yet nor have i polished my grubby fingerprints off the brass. and i need to touch up the blue paint Carry On...... pm has been sent to hugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auto Key Wizard Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 text as follows middlesbrough by design limited registered office company number 06320856 Well Iain you'll better double your price 'cos you'll need to engrave it all over, Where's the capitals? Middlesbrough By Design Limited Registered Office Company Number I'd quote £35-40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain Cheall Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 ah sorry meant to say customer insisted no capitol letters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auto Key Wizard Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 Really!!!, Are they not professional then? bad design if I may be so bold as to say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh-Candoit (ENG) Posted July 29, 2007 Report Share Posted July 29, 2007 To be technically correct I believe that only the Middlesbough should have a Capital. I may be wrong. I prefer the artistic licence none caps version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobblers Posted July 29, 2007 Report Share Posted July 29, 2007 i agree with hughby on this one, as far as i'm aware the rest of the address can be laid out according to personal preference. some'll use caps to start all words, some only the proper nouns, some, none at all. rick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ SOLUTIONS Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 I'd quote £45 for this job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest samtheman Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 i'd charge £39-00 if customer wanted more than one 1/2 price a second one, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 6" x 3" = £29.90 on our price matrix. + £20-00 for the logo. Total: £49.90. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 Plaque 60p per sq inch £10.80 Engraving 65 letters @60p £39.00 Logo £10 wood £8 total £67.80 Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironplanet uk900 Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 6" x 3" = £29.90 on our price matrix. + £20-00 for the logo. Total: £49.90. What about the wood backing 58.15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 Oh, forgot about the wood Total: £58.15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironplanet uk900 Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 6" x 3" = £29.90 on our price matrix. + £20-00 for the logo. Total: £49.90. What about the wood backing to be honest I dunno weather I'd have charged £20 for that logo. 58.15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 Well at first I thought £10.00 would be fair. But on second thoughts £20.00 is a good price anyway as it's taking up valuable time on the machine and I bet thats used up a fair amount of paint too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironplanet uk900 Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 Fair comment Young un Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest samtheman Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 oops! + backing boards, about £10 each Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironplanet uk900 Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 Iain, don't dry your plaques on the radiator, Natural is best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auto Key Wizard Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 I'd quote £35-40 Opps I forgot the Mahogany backing board too @ £12.50 so that would be £47.50-52.50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain Cheall Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 The backing board I am using for this job is a piece made by a local cancer sufferer who makes wooden toys for charity and made a load of backing boards for us with the off cuts for which we donated to his charity. Its a Japanese hardwood and he imported the tree for a project. I don't dry my paint on the radiator it was just on there to get the sunlight for the picture I used 2 teaspoons of blue paint and a teaspoon of white mixed to get the shade of blue and had loads left over so it didn't need that much to paint. As for the capitols as far as I can see its a free world and if a bloke wants to use lower case letters in his company name then he is welcome to. You may have noticed that on the plate there isn't much room to place the holes in a central and symetrical design. So as per my customers wishes one is going in the bottom left corner and one is going on the right in between his logo and the writing and it will be placed so that there is about 2mm clearence from each with the screw cap. I will post another pic tomorrow when I have drilled them. looks like my price is about right. I don't think many more are going to post here so I will reveal my price in with the pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironplanet uk900 Posted July 31, 2007 Report Share Posted July 31, 2007 By the way my company logo is all lower case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain Cheall Posted August 2, 2007 Report Share Posted August 2, 2007 Right job finished and taken away by the customer. took a pic of the position of the holes. my price £53.00 so I think we can agree we are all singing off similar hymn sheets if not the same one Lee £67.80 UK900/Dean £58.15 Iain £53 Tel200 £52.50 samtheman £49 KJ soloutions £45 Mind nearly ruined the whole thing beveling it, I slipped and took a chunk out along the top edge, cut it off with the guilotine and rebevelled it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Average price £54.23 your too cheap! £54 next time. Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain Cheall Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Average price £54.23 your too cheap! £54 next time. Lee HAHAHA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ SOLUTIONS Posted August 4, 2007 Report Share Posted August 4, 2007 Looking at the prices that are here I can't beleive im so cheap . I think i will have to review my pricing,Looking at the way you do your prices Lee I think I like the idea,its quite straight forward. Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted August 4, 2007 Report Share Posted August 4, 2007 Looking at the way you do your prices Lee I think I like the idea,its quite straight forward. Kev As I have said many times I hate doing brass, My price is this straight forward to that if I don't make the plaque myself or its too big for my machine I still make a reasonable profit from a "trade" source. Brass 60p per sq inch Engraving 60p per Digit This was a great way of doing this topic Iain, its proved interesting. Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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