Apprentice Works Armory

Peter Cosgrove 225 24th Ave Longview, WA 98632 541-680-9020

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Last Update 1January 2005

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10% DISCOUNT!!   For a 10% discount on a future order, email a picture to us of you wearing a piece of our armor.

Stock vs Custom: Out stock items (the ones listed above) usually ship within 1 week of payment being rec'd, barring extraneous stuff. Before a purchase is complete, the customer (i.e. you) and I come up with an agreeable shipping date. Custom work, on the other hand, has no pre-arranged shipping date. Instead, custom work is completed to the customer's full and total satisfaction. Many many pattern pieces are done, etc, with status reports/pics sentto the customer at each stage. For custom work, we will do ANYTHING. Call us, we'll talk it over, send us some pics/examples, I'll come up with a price, and if you like it, we will close the deal. So far, my custome work usually takes 6 mo's to 1 year. My custom work prices are pretty low because that's how I learn to do new things, which is why I'm doing this.

Apprentice For A Day Deal.. If you live somewhere near me, Longview, WA, come to the shop for a day. Help clean up, polish, cut, finish, do whatever scut work needs to be done around the shop, and walk out with previously agreed upon piece of armor. Bring loud CD's to listen to and be prepared to listen to long shop safety briefing...

Shipping/Return Policy:... Shipping prices include shipping and handling, as well as insurance fees via UPS/FedEx ground for a single piece order. Multiple orders have a reduced shipping price per piece. Please note: Internation shipping addresses will be subject to much higher prices. I ship upon the check clearing the bank. Make checks payable to Peter Cosgrove. If the piece doesn't fit and you want a better one, notify me and send it back, I will send another one. If you don't like it at all send it back and I will send your money back to you. If you feel the piece is unsafe, notify me and send the piece back. I will make whatever changes to pattern/production technique as are necessary and make a new one. Buyer takes all responsibility for safe use of pieces.

New Shipping Information: Due to the drastically increased costs of shipping, we would appreciate that our customers try not to purchase single items, but instead make every attempt possible to make multiple orders. In the last 24 months UPS, FedEx and USPS have raised their prices 3 times. As of Jan 1, 2003 UPS raised their prices yet again. The price increases so far have caused our shipping costs to almost double from where they were prior to 9/11/01. I recently received a letter from a possible customer who addressed a concern that my shipping charge of 50$ for a specific item was considered exorbitant. I am rather unpleased to say that on 12/27/02, I had to ship that same item for $63. $33 more than my originally expected shipping costs. In the last 3 years, I have shipped upwards of 250 shipments of armor, nationally and internationally, and have averaged about $10 more per shipment than I was expecting. While I would like to keep shipping costs minimal, unfortunately I am unable to continue to operate my enterprise w/o some cost increases, which I deeply regret. These increases are primarily for special metals and shipping costs. but also reflect my inability to absorb rising costs and inability to accurately predict actual time spent on particular pieces. I deeply apologize for any inconvenience this may  cause.

Pricing:.. Helmets 200$ Base cost, 245$ for Close Helm/Sallet Add 100$ for Stainless. Add 100$ for powder coating. Add 25$ for high polish, add 40$ for mirror finish. Shipping add 50$ Bascinet:Add 50$ for hinged grill, Add 75$ for detachable grill, Add 100$ for Klapstein visor Viking: Add 50$ for rivetted band, add 50$ for rivetted strap, add 75$ for band&strap, Add 150$ for Spangenhelm, Add 50$ for Slat Back. Add 25$ for Storm King Nasal. Add 50$ for Hammer Lord Ocular. Add 50$ for Ravens Fury 2 piece Nasal/Ocular Roman:Add 75$ for hinged cheeks with spring steel self locking latch. Crusader/Great: Add $25 for piercework, add 75$ for rivetted bands. Add 50$ for Frontal cross with custom end. Kabuto: Add 50$ for custom shikoro, Add 75$ for plain mempo, 125$ for "fierce" Mempo, purely decorative Kabuto's available (non combat spec) Custom Helmets Available: Sallet, Lobstertail Sallet, [With combat legal bevor], Barbute, Corinthian Barbute, Burgonet, Morion. Custom Work Available: TITANIUM: Brass/copper work: Add 10$ for 3 square inches min 10 square inches. Decorative rivetting , Decorative fluting Add 5$ per pair, acid etching, engraving, embossing, black work, powder coating, hinging, latching, piercework, chasing, aluminum, spring steel, brass/bronze casting, aluminum casting.High polish, Mirror finish. Breastplates/Lorica Segmentata Base cost 150$ Female breastplate 50$ Add 150 for Stainless, Add 10$ per each pair of flutes, Add 50$ for roped edging. Legs/Arms: Base cost 100$ 8 piece w/ steel hinged vambrace/cuisse. Add 100 for Stainless legs. Add 75$ for stainless Arms. Gorget: Base cost 35$. Add 10$ for stainless. Full Clamshell Gauntlets: Base Cost 250$. Add 100$ for stainless. Rapier Swept Hilts: Base Cost 75$. Add 50$ for stainless.