eBay My World: illinoisvalleycustoms1( 258)

With an education in Mechanical Production Technology, several years in trade school courses, 5 year apprentice program guided by masters from Fermi Lab, Argonne Nat Lab, Allied and the Pentagon I have been awarded several US patants for my work.

We sell custom machined dice, jewelry, and at times other unrelated custom machined items. The dice and jewelry we sell are all made from quality solid materials. There are too many cast, molded and painted items out there attempting to pass for Metal dice etc. We use solid bars of Brass, Aluminum and Titanium and machine you an accurate item, not a cast or molded set that are more often than not dimensionally off by a considerable amount. We are only the branch that works with ebay though, the parent company Ace Precision R&D deals with more of the serious developement and design works. These include gated entry systems, enclosures, Optical Tranceivers, Fiberoptic interconnect technologies and defense systems.

Every now and then I purchase tooling or something for the wife here on ebay but for the most part IVC is a seller and rarely buys. I personally rarely spend much of anything, don't carry cash and don't believe in credit cards. If I need it I pull the cash and pay cash in a planned expense and that works. Otherwise there is the good old fashioned checkbook.

Tools, tools and more tools. A good Prototype machinist/Toolmaker/ModelMaker/MoldMaker can never have every tool they could ever need. There is always a specific tool that would make that next project or fixture go so much smoother.

English, Polish, Russian

I regularly try to get out and fish but lets face it who has much time anymore. If I had time I would be fishing, hunting and hiking all the time and taking my girls out with as soon as they are able and teaching them. The other hobby I have is building and designing as much around the house as I can. If the wife wants a solid brass candle holder I design and make her a few instead of purchasing some cast overpriced item. Creating original works is a hobby I enjoy testing my abilities every day.

We were soldiers, Band of Brothers and of course BlackHawk Down.

Don't really watch too much on a regular basis, I recently caught Sons of Anarchy and that was not bad.

My personal fav would have to be the Floating Brass dice. The Nylon and PVC are nice but the Brass just have a feel and look to them that is just unique. They have a good solid weight to them but not too much, an original look you won't find anywhere else and the sound of four or five of them being rolled is a head turner at any gaming table. They truly are a great product, I just wish there was a way to make money on them!

The parent company was formed in 1998-99 and has done works for a wide variety of clients. Originally most were Fiber Optic based but in 2003 the industry crashed so our target market had to grow. We branched out to simple machine work to survive. Jigs, fixtures and secondary operations kept the ball rolling between large scale projects. Over time we chased after the general machining and leaned towards the Prototype sector with a good deal of success. In the last year is was proposed we try a side venture on ebay selling a few items to see how it goes. It has gone very well and we have all of you to thank for that, so thank you.

We are pretty flexable here and understanding, shoot us an email and ask us what's on your mind.

We place a 5 business day lead time on all orders even though most ship within 24hrs. This is for quality purposes as I am a neat freak and have to look at everything before it goes out the door. Most all orders are stocked and ready to ship but every now and then a defect will present itself on an item so I try to check everything before it leaves here. The orders are filled as they come in and in that order so if the volume is high it might be the full five business days. This does not mean that we have never gone over the five days though as well. I/We will not ship an item just to get it out on time if we are not certain it is correct. I would prefer being late than ship junk.

We don't really have one. All of our products are priced so well and produced to such quality no one has ever inquired.

We are always available via a question through ebay or contact us at illinoisvalley1@yahoo.com These accounts are checked at least 15 times a day or more.

We have engraved things on dice for people I would never have thought anyone would want all the way down to simple Hearts and Clovers. Everything from Valve stem caps to headlight covers to engine brackets to steel motorcycle seats. Ebay is an outlet to a great deal of creative souls with ideas. Our prices on development are next to nothing and our finished product prices are as cheap as they get so ask your questions. Our quality and feedback speak for themselves you might be suprised by how cheap you might be able to get your design or machining project completed.