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Artisans can make some really neat stuff like coins out of amber, but try asking them to make you 100 and best case scenario they give you a couple year lead time. Craftsmanship is to be respected of course, but its a hard sell getting a customer to buy a coin for $1000 when its $30 of material and $970 of labor.
Thats a good point about working with tricky materials and producing quantities.
Roman Booteen comes to mind regarding, skills and time. Here is ChiBitCTy's thread
from last year > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5347708.0