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Melody wrote:Leigha wrote:
So, now that you aren’t going to be based in Hollywood anymore, are you going to change the “Hollywood” to “Corvallis” on the felt pads on the bottom? and on the hang tags? and on anything else that says Hollywood? (moving is so much more work for a company- all the little details!)
We will, but we will have many months worth of inventory that we will be selling from Corvallis with the North Hollywood address, so it won’t be immediate.
It would feel like such a waste (to me) to toss the remaining felt pads and tags.
Do you think you’ll have all the sculptures completed before the move, so you’re only moving finished items ready for shipping?
Hmm, that almost sounds like a vague Rainbow question. 🙄 It wasn’t meant to be!
As for leftover pads after the move, I’m willing to bet that any extra Hollywood felt pads would be an easy item to get rid of on it’s own for anyone wishing to replace their own on a sculpture it was messed up on.
Curious, do you cut and stamp them yourselves or do they come pre-cut/stamped for your various sculptures?
~Hoofer
I’d just use up the last of the old pads..then change the location on the logo…less muss and fuss. 🙂
purplecat wrote:I’d just use up the last of the old pads..then change the location on the logo…less muss and fuss. 🙂
AMEN! You have already paid to have them made. *shrugs* Why not use them? 😐
I didn’t notice…Is the Griffin on the logo gonna stay the same? ❓
Hoofer wrote:As for leftover pads after the move, I’m willing to bet that any extra Hollywood felt pads would be an easy item to get rid of on it’s own for anyone wishing to replace their own on a sculpture it was messed up on.
Curious, do you cut and stamp them yourselves or do they come pre-cut/stamped for your various sculptures?
~Hoofer
I think this has been asked before… and the answer was that they can’t ship/sell pads by themselves to collectors, because felt pads are one of the best ways to tell a fake from a real Windstone, so they don’t want anyone to have a chance to put a real felt pad on a fake Windstone. I think it’s fairly safe to say that they will use up the remaining Hollywood pads, or dispose of them.
I believe that the felt pads are outsourced, because they are die-cut, and I don’t think Windstone has the facilities to do tool and die making to make the individual dies for these.
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My art: featherdust.comHoofer wrote:Melody wrote:Leigha wrote:So, now that you aren’t going to be based in Hollywood anymore, are you going to change the “Hollywood” to “Corvallis” on the felt pads on the bottom? and on the hang tags? and on anything else that says Hollywood? (moving is so much more work for a company- all the little details!)
We will, but we will have many months worth of inventory that we will be selling from Corvallis with the North Hollywood address, so it won’t be immediate.
Quote:As for leftover pads after the move, I’m willing to bet that any extra Hollywood felt pads would be an easy item to get rid of on it’s own for anyone wishing to replace their own on a sculpture it was messed up on.
Nah, we guard our pads. That is one thing that is very difficult to fake, so we never let them out of the factory without being stuck to something! The grey stamped pads are another “Knock-off detector” to tell if a piece is real or not. We will just destroy the old ones, probably.
Quote:It would feel like such a waste (to me) to toss the remaining felt pads and tags.
Yeah, but that can’t be helped. We’d only need to pitch the stamped pads. A lot have not been stamped yet. The hangtags… oh well. Maybe well get rid of those. They are a nuisance anyway.
Quote:Do you think you’ll have all the sculptures completed before the move, so you’re only moving finished items ready for shipping?
We are doing our best to finish almost everything and box it up nice and neat before the move. We will leave a few things unpainted so that we have something or other left to paint in the new place while the casting dept gets set up again.
Quote:Curious, do you cut and stamp them yourselves or do they come pre-cut/stamped for your various sculptures?
We have them die-cut to shape and then we stamp them ourselves. Some of the one-of-a kind, or old retired things get hand cut pads because we no longer have pads for them.
~Hoofer
starbreeze wrote:I’d like to know too. Also, will you keep the griffin as your logo symbol or will you use something else? 🙂
Hmmm, hadn’t thought about it, maybe I’ll give him a big smile after the move.
I just look at the logo more closely. It would be hard to improve on it.
How about giving him bat wings! That may be cool!Jennifer wrote:I don’t think the logo should be changed- just the location. Windstone has done too much branding with their current logo over the years to change it now, plus it can confuse collectors.
I agree with this 100%… location only. Windstonne griffin logo is too much of a staple (well known).
Even with just location changed, like emerald said, the Hollywood ones may just become more valuable after a time.
imo, I don’t think a move gives reason to change everything. Would you a buy a new car just because you moved down the street? Probably not. I think the gryphon logo should stay the same. There is no point in changing something that doesn’t need changing (“if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”?).
If you decide to get rid of the hang tags, it’s fine by me!!! I prefer that they don’t show when I’m displaying my sculpts and it’s hard to cram them under the smaller sculpts like the curls and the griffin chicks!! 🙂
Yeah….the hangtags are a bit cumbersome at times…I think getting rid of those would be a good thing. 🙂
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