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Jul 18, 2008

We recently had a vintage table base sandblasted and powdercoated at Melrose Metal Finishing and despite our desire to keep this great resource a secret, it's too good not to share with all of you.

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RichardinLA -

you're right, "reasonable" is different for everyone. The sandblasting and powder-coating for this job cost me $160, which to me was "reasonable" considering the (extremely high) quality of the work and the experience I had with the vendor. It was also reasonable for me because I only spent $50 on the table to begin with.

With vendors who work on a quote-based, per-job pricing system, I generally don't like to publish what I pay for their services, partially because I am in "the trade" and many vendors give me trade discounts as well as the fact that with many vendors I'm a repeat customer who sends a fair amount of work their way, often leading to discounts per-piece (which I pass on to my clients.) It should be noted that I never accept discounts based on my job at AT, and in cases like this didn't even mention that I worked for AT until after the job was already done and I had paid for it.

Hope that's helpful Elizabeth on Jul 21, 2008

I have to agree with RichardinLA on this one. quercus on Jul 21, 2008