photo frames

[sloth]

They're lovely, the ash doesn't have enough character for my liking, but probably more salable to the general house proud public! Re price the ash has got be 50-60, the yew more. Up to 80/90 maybe, a real feature on a wall Surely you could play on/market the home grown/sustainable/locally sourced and produced aspect; I think that appeals to a certain kind of 'ooh look at what I bought' well off trendy house wife!

[Tommy_B]

[muttley9050]

Nice work tommy.

[Ian Leach]

I saw some today like yours and they where going for £50-£60, not as nice as yours as the finish was poop. Also some mirrors which where siliconed onto the wood:confused1:

 

 

Tommy quite excellent craftsmanship there mate your wife should be proud of the skills

[Tommy_B]

Nice work tommy.

 

 

Tommy quite excellent craftsmanship there mate your wife should be proud of the skills

 

Cheers lads. Shot myself in the foot as I need to outdo it every year now!

[agg221]

No doubting the quality and workmanship in both of those.

 

The ash one doesn't do it for me though - I think it's the combination of 'perfect' lines and finish, pine back and dark colour (olive ash or stain?) it has something 'Ikea' about it? Not quite the same, but compare with this:

 

Photo Frames Ethnic Elephant Mango Wood Multi Photo Frame Holds 5 Photos Fair trade by Folio NH9

 

The yew on the other hand, with an oak back and natural form just looks like English handmade craftsmanship, and unique. That's the one I would reckon on getting significantly more for, and is probably easier to make?

 

Alec

[muttley9050]

The ash was naturally dark, not as olive as some I have though. Don't do stain as a rule.

The yew was certainly quicker to make. The misses has her eye on it so put an £80 price tag on it and if it don't sell before Christmas its hers. The only reason the back was oak was because it needed to be 18mm and all the pine I had was too cupped!

Some people seem to like the waney rustic look and some don't. The ash board was that width anyway so couldn't think of much else to do with it.

Did a market today and every piece I sold except one was charecterless, then other days all the character pieces sell first.

Nowt as strange as folk.

[Pat Ferrett]

I used to make copies of furniture for film sets and one of the ways I arrived at a price was to ask myself what I would offer for it without the fear of being thrown out on my ear.

 

This also works well as sales patter, along the lines of if they were to see the mirror hanging in gallery would they have the guts to offer £80.

[wisewood]

I agree with the others, the yew one stands out and should be the way to go if you wish to do more.

I'd look into setting up an online shop, etsy, folksy for example.

Where are you hoping to sell them? I'm sure you know this so sorry for stating the bleeding obvious but you need to account for all your outgoings to work out a price for them. Are you selling at a stall? You have stall hire costs plus your time being there and fuel/travel, all on top of making them in the first place.

Online shops take a small percentage plus paypal fees too.

Galleries if you aim at the high end typically take 30 - 40 % on average, although you may find one that will take less. Either way it will bump the retail price up. If you sell at different venues make sure they sell at same /similar prices all round. I came a little unstuck last year selling carved xmas trees, started off selling a few from yard at base price then as they took off I began stocking other venues and they wanted % and before I knew what was occurring I had the same trees selling at 3 different prices and people asking why am I buying at x when so and so is paying x:lol:

Anyway, get producing they will do well:thumbup:

[slackbladder]

Careful some of the top galleries charge 100% plus vat