Production Plans

Hey everyone. I am writing today because I am a couple of days away from ordering my next batch of blanks and that has prompted me to make a decision about what I will be doing from now until the end of the year.

I've decided to follow a feeling I've become aware of over the past couple of weeks. I have this itch that is pushing me to continue working on, exploring and deepening myself in my O.a.ks. There’s something special that feels new and somewhat contemplative that I’ve been obtaining from making them as of late, and I don’t want to stop or break it. I don't know exactly what it is, or why I am tilting this way, but I feel a need and a desire to keep on working in that particular line (and the train of thought attached to it) from here on to the end of the year, at least. It might not be the wisest of decisions economic wise, as I know for a fact that you, my audience, tend to gravitate more strongly around the Heritage and Signature series -O.a.ks can be shop lingerers-, but man, I really feel that I do need to follow this pull for now. I’m sure I have a reason, which I hope will probably figure as I go.

In any case, what that means for all of you is that I won't be making any more Signatures or Heritages as part of my regular production for the next 3 months or so, BUT, that doesn't mean that you cannot get one if you really had your hopes to do so before December/January. Meaning, with this announcement I am opening up limited spaces for commission work, specifically to make Heritages and Signatures only. I will only take a few commissions per month,  as I will favor allocating most of my work time into the regular production. But, for those of you who were banking on finding that Heritage or Signature that moved you and wanted to take home on the coming batches, I am giving you the chance of ordering it through commission work. This will be the only way to get a new Heritage of Signature for the coming months.

It will be a first come first serve situation. Whoever I cannot accommodate on the active month will be placed in order of arrival for next month’s work. Now, IMPORTANT: I will wait tops 3 days before I order my blanks for this next couple of months, so you have a limited time frame to enter a “special” commission agreement with me. This doesn't mean that I won't take your commission after this three day period has gone, it just means that any commission I accept after will have the regular 12% price increase applied to it (which I do for all commissions, given the increased price for singular blank imports). Conclusion: send me your request within this time frame and you will pay the same as any other of my cymbals would cost: 30eu x inch, otherwise, it’s 33,6eu x inch.

Thanks for reading if you did, and I hope that this is a solution that will work for anyone out there that had their eyes and/or heart set on a Heritage or Signature.
Best wishes and hopefully a warm and fulfilling winter to all.

MGQ

P.S: Commission requests are sent through my “Contact” form.