how much would you pay?

for a hand-painted, hand studded punk leather jacket, completely custom to your tastes?

i'm out of a job, my mom is out of a job, and my dad may be losing his job soon too.
i need a way to make money, and people kept wondering how much i'd charge them to make a custom leather jacket, and i don't want to be rediculous about pricing, but at the same time someone offered me a thousand bucks for one and i kinda want to keep that in mind. i mean obviously it's going to be a higher price if i had to go out and buy the jacket, but all designs and band logos would be hand painted on. i've got one serious person that wants me to make them a leather, how much should i charge them?

and if i charge based on amount of work, it would probably be around two months before they got their jacket, even working several hours a day

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Permalink Reply by Alex on September 11, 2009 at 5:05pm

I'm not sure if people would actually buy it at that price, but if you think about the difficulty of some album covers and the price of patches it makes sense.

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Permalink Reply by Alex on September 11, 2009 at 10:27pm

I know, usually for free if you can scavenge. But the people who would actually pay to have someone paint their jacket instead of just doing the work themselves probably don't know that. And probably buy their patches from hot topic.

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Permalink Reply by Krug on January 1, 2010 at 5:59pm

I've done what you're thinking of, studding and fixing jackets up for people, and I was charging 10$ per hour, plus the cost of any supplies I had to buy.
In some cases I wouldn't charge people as much, but when it comes down to necessity, you can't avoid that money is the worlds fuel. I hated the idea of doing someone elses jacket for them as well, it shouldn't be my mind making it for them, it should be theirs.