Keyrings... gauging interest

[Ada7]

 I've been asked by an old friend of ours to put is up on here as he's unable to. I hope that's ok. He's just trying to give a guy some business and it's nothing to do with himself other than promoting it of course. You'll see what I mean.

So then. I've been in contact with a most excellent dude and mainstay of the retro car scene in the south west of our septic isle. Besides driving one of the coolest vehicles in the land;



he also just happens to have made himself a laser in the shed. Yep, a laser. In the shed. The world needs eccentric geniuses like this! And one of the cool things you can do with a laser (apart from cutting the sliver lamé jumpsuit off of indescribably nubile space laydeees prior to letting them use you for their base otherworldly sexual appetites) is carve out really accurate designs into any number of materials. And what Bruce (for that is he) is using his laser to design is... keyrings. Yeah, the clue was in the title really. You'll have to come up with your own nubile space aliens


Anyway, by way of example, here's one he prepared earlier;



It's made using a quality, proper flat-ring insert and using locally-sourced ethically sound leather. Because he's literally a garage industry he has ultimate control over every aspect of the product, and because he's a top bloke that means every aspect is top-notch.



He can also take on commissions, a rotary club one if you'd like. Getting the idea? By way of illustration, here are some examples of the kind of variety that the run he produced for the SAAB owners club ended up with;




So, basically this thread is to whet appetites and see if there's enough interest to make it worth his while. And since we live in the eBay generation when people refuse to pay even close that what something's worth, I'm guessing you're all out there tugging beards (metaphorical beards will suffice) and archly muttering "well, it depends on the price. Innit". Well, amazing as it may sound, the price for one of these exclusive and top quality items is just £7.50

Yep,  £7.50!

Postage would be a further £1.50 for mainland UK, £3.50 for Europe and £4.50 Rest of the World


So for under a tenner, you could have a nearly one-off, exclusive, superb quality keyring holding your eezee-bend Mazda piece of crap key. And your faux-carbon Clifford fob, of course. These really are far and above any of the mass-produced sweatshop rubbish from the Pacific Rim, and you can rest assured that no pre-teens were chained to a desk for eighteen hours a day during the manufacture of these items!


That's for one of Bruce's own designs, and for a decent production run. If we want to commission him for one of our own designs (for example, the forum logo or a Mazda/RX-7 based design) then the price will rise slightly. Some example pricings he's given me are like this;

For a run of ten ~£8.00 per item
For a run of five ~£13.00 per
For a total one-off one of one design about £50!

These prices obviously reflect the time and aggravation in having to program appropriate Adobe files for the laser to follow as a cut path, and the diminishing return for his time in doing so. However, if we can come up with a suitably humongous order run of like 50 then the price may even come down.

Personally speaking I like this old-skool Mazda logo




But there's no reason the FD RX-7 one couldn't be used;



or the earlier FB style one...



Whatever you want. Provided we make it worth his while. Have a bit of fun. place a vote!

So, to sum up, all I'm asking in this thread is for people to give a firm commitment to purchasing one. If you want to get a design of our own done, then suggest one preferably with illustration. At the end we can get a consensus for the most popular one or ones to present to Bruce. But PLEASE don't waste our time with "Wo0t, amazing, I'd love one"-type replies if you have no intention of actually coming up with the money for one when it comes down to it. This thread isn't for loads of flannel about how lovely they look, we already know that! This is for people who actually want one and will honour that commitment when it comes down to handing over the moneys.

Cheers, much love and thanks for reading. Respond now...

So if you're interested then put your name down and we'll get a list together to pass on

Thanks for listening

Adam

[boosted]

Thats cool...the ebay 1s are naff....the rotor shaped example is elegant ill have 3 please.

Boosted 3 off

[Ada7]

Anyone else interested in one (or more) of these?

Adam

[Rotary_Menace]

Is it just the rotor shape?

Neil

[re japi]

Hmm, I could take two rotor shaped too...