Furniture From Mojokerto

There have been many success stories that originated from the pioneering efforts fad. One of the success it is Jemy, artisan miniature ship from Mojokerto, East Java.

Approximately ten years ago, Jemy who live in river-side aliases on the edge of Brantas, was fun to make a mini wooden ship complete with screens and a cord.

Because there are no plans that keisengannya membisniskan, Jemy also claim to not spend capital. He admitted that he only took out the cost of making a mini ship it to Rp 50,000. "Initially it for a toy, making it that much it costs," said Jemy.

But it turns out, the ship was much loved toys. Moreover, working on miniature Jemy it very seriously, very detailed and very smooth. Well, shortly after the launching of the ship mininya, orders began coming to him.

Husband of this Isna now create a miniature variety of types of vessels. Ranging from miniature ships Phinisi Dewarutji to another. Usually for a ship, Jemy only takes ten days to complete. To supply the material, he found no trouble. Mojokerto, where he lived, a lot of available wood. Whether it's wooden slabs, beams, and logs.

Jemy also build ships of various sizes. The size of the vessel size will determine the price tag of. To Phinisi size 15 cm, for example, Jemy fix prices of Rp 20,000.

Want a more exclusive? Jemy never took off the ship for Rp 17 million. This ship orders Koreans. Banderolnya be exorbitant because of the size of the ship was not kidding. "The ship that was ordered in size four feet and it took me three months to make," he said. Well, if you just need a mini-standard ships, the price is also still very affordable, at around USD $ 100 000 only.

In addition to wood, he also used other materials used, such as packets of cement that can be used as a display of miniature ships. He explained, to create a display of miniature ships, she always uses a given layer of cement packs melamine so that the resulting color is more brown and more shiny as a real screen.

For each miniature ships with a length of 12 inches, height 6 cm and 4 cm wide, pegged the price of Rp150 thousand per unit, depending on the type and complexity of the process works. "If more and more complicated, of course the selling price will be high," he said.

He confessed, miniature size of the greatest ships ever built, measuring two meters long, 1.6 meters high and 80 cm wide. "This ship Miniature my Rp6 million sale price to a Dutch foreign tourists," he said.

Made any type of ship varies from ship to ship war Majapahitan traditional European and Chinese merchant ships. "Making this ship type and size also depends on the order, and now most sellers are Chinese merchant ship," he said.

In one day, he was able to make a 4-5 ship. However, workmanship divided by the number of employees. One person makes the hull, one makes the display board, and others making variations of other ships.

Not only does it merely create a miniature ship, he can also make a miniature ship in a bottle. "Miniature ships of this type are also quite a lot of interested persons because of is unique. To make, I use chopsticks and assemble a series of his ship in a bottle, "he said.