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Title: Corset Busks
Post by: gusjodi on February 06, 2012, 12:15:14 AM
Does anyone know where to buy corset busks wholesale? These puppies are spendy when you buy a bunch a retail prices.
Title: Re: Corset Busks
Post by: isabelladangelo on February 06, 2012, 04:07:30 AM
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)
Title: Re: Corset Busks
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Corset Busks
Post by: Dinobabe on February 08, 2012, 03:41:29 PM
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
Title: Re: Corset Busks
Post by: Anna Iram on February 08, 2012, 06:09:10 PM
Paint stick here as well.  :D
Title: Re: Corset Busks
Post by: Butch on February 08, 2012, 09:52:28 PM
I've made them using a web belt (I don't wear them myself!)
Title: Re: Corset Busks
Post by: Rani Zemirah on February 09, 2012, 12:21:24 AM
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!