lol.
1. fact, jacob is done, his business has dropped something like 78% which is beyond the scale. + he's going to jail. jacob has had that machine for almost 3 years and still was charging $12 to $15 to set a stone and absurd prices for a mold. so no, not worried about jacob, his watches have slowed down completely, so he's a wrap and when he gets sentenced, it'll basically be for life, he'll do a mandatory 15 years, not even 200 million cash is gonna get him out of this one. I just see them making an example of him like they did with martha stewart. people sang like birds and snitched crazy.
2. johnny tv just got it and I bet his work will still be trash. his prices are already better then mines, but again, his work and overall quality is like a lexus with rims at best, our work at worst is a Bentley GT compared to his. he only charges like $2 or $3 at most per stone to set and you can tell, with this machine, maybe he'll cut the costs more, but it's a wrap, when you're supposedly the king of grills and your grills aren't even up to par, then you got issues.
this is the whole issue.
Johnny TV got name plate pendants with width, spec, clarity, etc. on his site
claiming SI clarity (BS) and if you look at the shapes of the piece, specifically that J piece, it's awful. so if we wanted to, yes we could make the J piece in that same quality, even though ours would look better and it'd weigh the same and use the same stones, then we could charge $4k, but his work is soo garbage and his choice of stones, etc, we can't afford to do something like that, I'm building a bigger reputation of class and style from dude. he don't care about being corny, he just wants to sorta cake out but be famous.
I mean outside hulk hogan and his family, TV johnny got no celebs outside rappers.
he has a pic of him and paris on his site and paris doesn't even know who he is.
I know paris, for instance, if she got something made by him, she's sooo up on her ice game, she'd know if something was fake, set poorly, etc. most other's don't care in the hood, but my clients and such, they want that super detail like jacob was doin.
we got that and you're gonna pay for that, but our prices for this type of quality are still the lowest and better then jacob and where we really win is we've made $250,000 pieces with labor including over 5,000 diamonds and 1,400 grams of gold done in 3 to 4 days. it takes johnny tv 4 weeks to make a grill man. we turn around grills in a few days as well. so if he needed to make a fully iced out chain like we did for Jonas, it'd take him an eternity.
also, I'm just dissapointed in how he don't care how his @#%$ looks out there in the public eye. man he made a piece for this dude and I think I've mentioned this before, the piece was bigger and thicc'er then Nas's "N" pendant. it was huge, like 6" x 6" and dear lord. when I put it on the scale, I was even off, I was williing to say it was 175 to 200 grams, it was like 145 grams, thing was dumb light. I can't explain it, I'm gonna start pointing out why certain things quality wise are terrible in these posts from now on. even the interstate piece before we closed up the gaps was 385 grams and wasn't the size of that. plus his pave work is just garbage. my baby cousin who does our immediate work could set diamonds better then him and he doesn't even work on our custom jobs, just basic stuff for the store. I also remember seeing a 3" tall cross johnny made and it weighed 31grams. @#%$? do you know how light that is?
and I ain't got beef with no jewelers, I'm eating good, so I'm not trippin, I just would like to see better stuff.
this dude who does akon's jewelry posted a comment with a picture of some of his work on my icee fresh myspace page and it was aite, like a 7 maybe, so I posted a few pieces from my collection and he denied the comment because like a @#%$ @#%$ chump he knew our work would crush his and he prolly didn't want his friends or viewers to jump to us.
bottom line is we got Mariah on locc and Nas on locc and many others who are coming bacc. Mariah says she wants the exact same chain, but now in 18k white gold and to hang lower. and she wants a baby style cross of fat joes but with pink and white diamonds, real. so we got some @#%$ coming in 07
