Retail Store Solves Casting Pricing Problem


Art Based on Reality


Restoration Hardware apparently has gotten the memo about not pricing their castings by the pound.


Te specialty housewares store recently offered these recreated 1960s era


cast iron dumbbells, sold in a set of four, for $159. Te set includes a 5-lb., 10-lb., 15-lb. and 20-lb. dumbbell, which the store recommends you use for “door-stopping, book ending strength.”


Now if only your metalcasting facility could win an order for iron doorstops at more than $3 per pound.


56 | MODERN CASTING December 2011


SHAKEOUT Images courtesy of Tim McMillin, Fairmount Minerals


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