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A door knob. Nah just getting into carving and was looking at what sells had a to laugh when this popped up and once improved was thinking of selling a few bits but how can you make a bit of money when so much imported stuff for sale at cheap prices. Do any of you guys have much luck selling stuff as i can't seem to sell much. House is full of tables bowls wine racks bowl blanks pen blanks milled timber. Small bits of milled timber for the hobbyist is getting a bit of interest but making items i'm putting on hold for now. Did some fairs this year but no good. I get the impression that hand made items are slowly fading away as with the trades that go with them and people sooner buy some mass produced imported crap from the big stores. Maybe some of you can take a minute and look at my site any advice welcome.

http://www.lumbertowonder.com

Kev

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I sympathise. You may think your craft works should fly off the shelves, but you need the customer to think likewise. The things people will buy are very hard to predict, but every so often, someone will hit on a thing which lots of people want to buy. I just live for the day when that person is me.

 

I don't do many craft fairs, but am used to seeing stallholders pack away 95% of what they brought.

 

Come to think of it, see the 'xmas reindeer' thread on this forum. I have seen those go for £15-20 each as fast as they could be made.

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A door knob. Nah just getting into carving and was looking at what sells had a to laugh when this popped up and once improved was thinking of selling a few bits but how can you make a bit of money when so much imported stuff for sale at cheap prices. Do any of you guys have much luck selling stuff as i can't seem to sell much. House is full of tables bowls wine racks bowl blanks pen blanks milled timber. Small bits of milled timber for the hobbyist is getting a bit of interest but making items i'm putting on hold for now. Did some fairs this year but no good. I get the impression that hand made items are slowly fading away as with the trades that go with them and people sooner buy some mass produced imported crap from the big stores. Maybe some of you can take a minute and look at my site any advice welcome.

http://www.lumbertowonder.com

Kev

 

Your lettering is spot on, by hand or machine?

 

Wife and I visited Sicily recently and walked into a bar, not noticing till sitting down and looking at the menu (which folded out into a C & B shape) that everything in the bar was somehow phallic. I cant find the picture on my phone that I thought I had of the carved table lamp on our table was a finely worked C&B.

 

Perhaps start a parallel website, only a suggestion but Stick to P...ck

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