Perhpas someone can provide some advice here.
I am working on creating an effect with beercaps and require some cusom manufacturing done.

Does anyone know much about how beer caps are made?

I went to my local make your own crappy beer store and they have caps that are flat and all are standard sizes.

Think...Transposition, Nesting, [ over a regular beer cap.

Having said that, and if you can visualize what I am trying to create, do you think there would be a demand for this type of effect? I am thinking of all the restaurant and bar workers.

Thanks,
Will//

First, it will help you to know that beer caps are commonly called "crowns." Most will be very close in size but you can do quite a bit with imprinting, etc. Try this site for starters-
http://atlaslabels.com/Crowns.html

A Google search should yield you some more options. Good luck!

You could take regular bottle caps.. and have shells vaccuformed.. vaccuform plastic comes in every thickess in the book.. the hardest part my be finding a finish that matches.. but as long as you paint the caps and the shells with the same paint.. you'll be fine..

If you're REALLY serious.. take a look at this site. they have no minimum order, they're nice.. and they sell KILLER stuff.. really really amazing stuff. they're not cheap but they are the ONLY company in the world that makes what they make..

http://www.alsacorp.com/products/fantasy......hart.htm

I had never thought of plastic. Thanks for the thought.I am making a trip to the local beer store, some of the imports may have a cap that is larger that a domestic.

The link you gave is quite interesting for something else I am working on.

Thanks again,
will

I saw an effect once (and one that I now do) that just uses normal crowns. You basically pop the top off a beer bottle (with that lovely little psst noise), let people see it, vanish it and then it re-appears on the bottle and it does the psst again when you take it off. And usually after seeing that, my friends all buy me beer and I get psst, which is also lovely.

Which is pretty darned funny if you have a rudimentary grasp of British slang!