Do you want an Official Tiki Central Ohana Hut mug? - General Tiki

H hanford_lemoore Tiki Socialite Tiki Central Joined: Mar 23, 2002 Posts: 1899	H hanford_lemoore Posted posted on Sat, May 27, 2006 2:19 PM On 2006-05-26 20:59, chisel slinger wrote: are you F'n kidding me? youre gonna try to bilk people over $100 bucks for this thing? WTF? Hi CS, This simply isn't a cheap mug to make. Production-wise it's like two huge tiki bowls -- one for the base, and one for the lid. It takes up a massive amount of space in the kiln, which means they can fire less mugs at a time (not just TC mugs but production mugs as well), which slows the entire Munktiki operation down. Because of the detailed boxy shape the molds themselves were very complex, requiring nine parts, as can be seen in the photos below. And as production continues, Stuckie has to re-add detail by hand on a mug-per-mug basis as the mold degrades, but times that by two since it's really two huge mugs. We knew it wasn't going to be cheap, and we almost chose a different winner from the top 3 that the judges voted on simply because of that, but this was the clear winner so we decided to go forward with it. I tried to prepare people for the fact that the mug was going to be expensive, but I guess there's no way around a certain amount of sticker shock. Sorry about that. ~Hanford [ Edited by: hanford_lemoore 2006-05-27 14:21 ]

On 2006-05-26 20:59, chisel slinger wrote:
are you F'n kidding me? youre gonna try to bilk people over $100 bucks for this thing? WTF?

Hi CS,
This simply isn't a cheap mug to make. Production-wise it's like two huge tiki bowls -- one for the base, and one for the lid. It takes up a massive amount of space in the kiln, which means they can fire less mugs at a time (not just TC mugs but production mugs as well), which slows the entire Munktiki operation down. Because of the detailed boxy shape the molds themselves were very complex, requiring nine parts, as can be seen in the photos below. And as production continues, Stuckie has to re-add detail by hand on a mug-per-mug basis as the mold degrades, but times that by two since it's really two huge mugs.

We knew it wasn't going to be cheap, and we almost chose a different winner from the top 3 that the judges voted on simply because of that, but this was the clear winner so we decided to go forward with it. I tried to prepare people for the fact that the mug was going to be expensive, but I guess there's no way around a certain amount of sticker shock. Sorry about that.

~Hanford

[ Edited by: hanford_lemoore 2006-05-27 14:21 ]

Post #234304 by hanford_lemoore on Sat, May 27, 2006 2:19 PM