dgfoster
Diamond
- Joined
- Jun 14, 2008
- Location
- Bellingham, WA
I would like to promote folks learning to scrape. So, I am offering my straight at a 30% discount to any student who purchases a straight edge and then completes a scraping class. So, for anyone who takes a formal scraping class and presents a letter indicating they completed the course, I will refund 30% of the purchase price of one of my straight edges. This is not retroactive ;-). This is intended to encourage people entering the scraping world. I provide castings made from start to finish by me. I do not farm out casting and so control quality at the highest possible level.
I realize that the cost of a class plus straight edge purchase is a pretty good chunk to bite off. Perhaps this discount will ease that pain a little bit.
Current Undiscounted Prices on my straight edges is as follows:
A) 18" Prism/Parallel/Straight Edge/Precision Machinists Level as a raw stress relieved casting:
$250 shipped in the US.
Machining is 150 extra.
Local pickup saves 60
Shipping to Canada is not too painful. Shipping to Australia, Europe, and Japan costs about 100 dollars.
Here is a link that give a lot of information on that tool: Denis Foster 18" Straight Edge / Prism
B) 36" Featherweight Straight Edge that weighs approximately 19 to 25 pounds depending in user preferences:
Raw stress-relieved casting 490.
Shipping is about 30 dollars with the new UPS shipping plan within the US. I have not tried it to Canada yet.
Machining is 195.
Searching Featherweight Straight Edge on eBay will provide more details.
C)48" Featherweight. It weighs 51 pounds as cast and would machine down to about 35 to 40 pounds.
Raw casting 595.
I would guess shipping in the US would be on the order of 150 dollars unless I can fit them into UPS's new flat rate system. I will look into that. Here are a couple representative photos.
BTW, here is a link to a 2.5 minute video my son made (unbeknownst to me at the time) of a 48" pour. All the equipment seen here was made in my shop (much of it is of original design) for pouring iron at 2550F.
YouTube
Anyway, we'll give this idea a try. If anyone has questions, ask away.
Denis
I realize that the cost of a class plus straight edge purchase is a pretty good chunk to bite off. Perhaps this discount will ease that pain a little bit.
Current Undiscounted Prices on my straight edges is as follows:
A) 18" Prism/Parallel/Straight Edge/Precision Machinists Level as a raw stress relieved casting:
$250 shipped in the US.
Machining is 150 extra.
Local pickup saves 60
Shipping to Canada is not too painful. Shipping to Australia, Europe, and Japan costs about 100 dollars.
Here is a link that give a lot of information on that tool: Denis Foster 18" Straight Edge / Prism
B) 36" Featherweight Straight Edge that weighs approximately 19 to 25 pounds depending in user preferences:
Raw stress-relieved casting 490.
Shipping is about 30 dollars with the new UPS shipping plan within the US. I have not tried it to Canada yet.
Machining is 195.
Searching Featherweight Straight Edge on eBay will provide more details.
C)48" Featherweight. It weighs 51 pounds as cast and would machine down to about 35 to 40 pounds.
Raw casting 595.
I would guess shipping in the US would be on the order of 150 dollars unless I can fit them into UPS's new flat rate system. I will look into that. Here are a couple representative photos.
BTW, here is a link to a 2.5 minute video my son made (unbeknownst to me at the time) of a 48" pour. All the equipment seen here was made in my shop (much of it is of original design) for pouring iron at 2550F.
YouTube
Anyway, we'll give this idea a try. If anyone has questions, ask away.
Denis
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