Does anyone know where to buy corset busks wholesale? These puppies are spendy when you buy a bunch a retail prices.
If you are looking for Victorian Corset busks, there are plenty of sellers that sell them on ebay for a reasonable price. For actual late 16th C into the 17th C pair of bodies busks - i think most people end up carving them themselves.
Personally, for my Victorian and Edwardian corsets I wear to re-enactments, I loathe busks. Those hooks and I do not get along. I've gone to another very period front closure- buttons! Flat, round buttons were very often used in Victorian and Edwardian corsetry. If you decide for an alternative to busks, buttons may be another way to go! If you like, I have several photos of extant corsets with buttons (some are from my site, some aren't. I keep them on file for documentation purposes)
Sorry I can't help specifically, but I do know that they are free at Home Depot if you are like me and use paint sticks sanded down.
Quote from: amy on February 06, 2012, 10:51:14 AM
Sorry I can't help specifically, but I do know that they are free at Home Depot if you are like me and use paint sticks sanded down.
OH! You beat me to it. Mine is made from a paint stick and it looks great! ;D
Paint stick here as well. :D
I've made them using a web belt (I don't wear them myself!)
I have the feeling she might be asking for the metal type...
Here are a few retailers of either the metal variety, or both metal and wooden, some of which also offer wholesale options...
Dragon Corset Supply (http://www.dragontowncorsetsupply.com/wholesaleterms.html)
Corset Making Supplies (http://store.corsetmaking.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=CMS&Category_Code=B)
Farthingale's Corset Making Supplies (http://www.farthingales.on.ca/products.php?cat=busk)
Vena Cava Design (http://www.venacavadesign.co.uk/Products/browse/cat/Busks.html)
Hope you can find some good prices in some of these sites!