Cost Issues—No hassles, no waiting ‘until we hear from the manufacturer’ (because we ARE the manufacturer); no tooling charges but SmithyShop item price could vary from catalog item price, depending on extra labor or substitute materials used. Every SmithyShop item will be quoted up front. Prices are always in line with existing sizes.

How  It's Done—

1) We employ highly resourceful machinists and metalsmiths;

2) We own the design rights and patents on what we sell. We reserve the right to alter our own products—to please our customers—at any time. 

3) The manufacturing processes at JHC originally were designed to adapt rapidly to a broad range of materials, shapes and sizes; In other words: from the get-go we thought our customers would always have a better feeling for what they wanted than we did.

4) Raw materials are stockpiled, not finished products; we build on order. Thus, we do not have an inventory of end products mismatched to what our customers really want.
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