Customized Rims
Customized Rims
We're a small scale shop & we won't be able to offer a rim for everyone; if our options aren't enough our cups are 100% compatible with any Giardinelli threaded rim. Other rim makers include Houghton, Houser, Osmun, Marcinkiewicz, Moosewood, Atkinson and probably others. If you have a rim you love you can keep using it with our cups.
Available sizes 17.25 - 18.5 (and beyond, but shapes become fairly limited).
You can choose from 3 materials; mirror polished Ti, mirror polished Steel or gold plated brass (in pink or yellow gold - the pink gold is a particularly nice color).
Unfortunately, we cannot offer returns or exchanges. When factoring my time working on designs and logistical overhead of one-off manufacturing we're selling these at cost. I offer these because sometimes the right rim can save a career or make playing accessible again after an injury. However, we want you to be happy comfortable & most importantly playing your horn - if we need to try again we can give you a 30% discount on subsequent custom rims.
In my very personal case my rim fixed an issue that plagued me all through college; I had a bad double buzz and a few very specific profiles that help gather the lips in allow me to play at a high level (formerly a Houser JL 18.25 and now our CN 18 rim). It's because I've needed a special rim myself that I offer these, despite the negative economics.
Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery.