Casket Handle Set Sizing: Matching a Set to a Casket
Casket Handle Set Sizing: Matching a Set to a Casket
This page is about sizing, not about listing sets. The category page for handle sets introduces the 12 sets; this page explains how a set is matched to a casket, so that a buyer who knows the casket size can arrive at the right set without guessing. The two pages share the same 12 sets and do not compete: the category page lists, this page selects.
Start with the casket size. The set is assembled around the casket, so the casket's length and width determine the bar length, and the bar length determines which set fits. The category facts for sets include steel bars in 20 by 20 millimetre, 22 millimetre diameter and 25 millimetre diameter sizes, and the choice among them follows the casket size and the handle family, not personal preference alone.
Next, confirm that every piece in the set is in the same finish. A set is valuable precisely because it removes finish mismatch, but only if the order states one finish for the whole set. State the finish once, for the set, rather than piece by piece, and ask for confirmation against a physical sample.
Finally, confirm the load rating of the handles in the set, model by model, where the set uses load-bearing handles. A set has no separate rating invented for it; its rating is the rating of its handles, and decorative pieces in the set carry no rating. Confirm the minimum order quantity and lead time for the set as a whole, since both vary by product, and confirm the shipping plan from Wenzhou by full or less than container load.
A worked sizing example
Consider a buyer ordering sets for a casket range in two sizes, who states both sizes separately, with the handle family and the finish for each. For the larger size, the bar length follows the larger casket, and the set composition follows the handle family chosen for that size; for the smaller size, the bar length and the set composition follow the smaller casket, even though the finish is the same. The two sets are therefore different sets, with different bars, even though they share a finish, and they should be ordered as two lines, not as one line with a total quantity.
That example shows why sizing is a separate step from listing sets. The category page lists the 12 sets, but it cannot tell a buyer which set fits a particular casket, because that depends on the casket size, which only the buyer knows. The sizing step is where the buyer's knowledge of the casket meets the catalogue's knowledge of the sets, and it is the step that prevents a set being supplied for the wrong size. Confirm the size, the family, the finish, the bar size and the rating together, as the wholesale inquiry page sets out, and the set will fit the casket it was ordered for.
Before payment, confirm the model number, material, finish, quantity, lead time and any load-test record for your order with the sales team.