Making Money Woodturning
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- Making Money Woodturning. This video is the second video showing how to earn money by woodturning, This can be done by making some lower price point pieces that will help draw people to your booth as well as give a fall back in the event higher price items are not selling. This will help meet expenses.
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The Funnel is priceless...I'll take for what ever 50% off of priceless turns out to be! Great video of production work...and everything that led up to it.
Caching, here comes the money. Great job Mike.
Thanks Jack!
Excellent work, enjoy watching the videos ..I love wooden products and have a few of your pieces ..I get lots of comments on them!
Thanks to my favorite customer!
Great job Mike I’m sure they will sell fast!
Thanks Brad!
Super job. The 28 came out pretty nice. It may have cost you a few minutes per bowl when you did the second turning on the outside. Cutting against the grain caused a lot of your tear out that may have been avoided by going with the grain. If you do another batch like this you might try pulling from bottom to top on the outside to see if you don’t get a nicer finish off the tool. Great batch of bowls. I’m looking forward to seeing how they do in the show for you and how they effect sales overall.
I will try that next time. I think the biggest problem was the wood was borderline too punky in some cases. Thanks Doug!
@@BrailsfordWoodworks yes, if it was punky to start with very little changes that.
Great work Michael. Shame about the one funnel, but you can’t win them all 😔 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️
Thanks Richard!
I used to use Watco Danish oil and then learned how much of the material is solvent that just soaks in and flashes off. Very low quality product that I've found to be more expensive in the long run than a better Danish oil that isn't soaked up as much. I will definitely be interesting to see if cutting in the direction of supported grain can help. I sometimes pretreat spalted woods with shellac to make a clean cut and efficient sanding easier depending on how punky it might be--more time and material cost so maybe not the process for these quick bowls.
Seth, that is a good idea that I will employ. I ran out of the Danish oil and went to purchase more and was a little taken back at the price. I may try Tung oil instead.
Great to see you working hard and helping other turners with you tips and videos. I am sorry that some TWISTED people waste your time trying to beat you down. You're doing a fantastic job, stick at it.well done.
Thank you Dave! I do appreciate the kind words!
Thanks for sharing Brad. Where did you get the large cole jaws?
My cole jaws are from Hurricane wood tools, from the Woodturning Store. Thanks for watching!
Nice job! They looked like they really soaked up the oil,will you sign those?
I would say it soaked it up like a sponge but it was way faster than that! Thanks for watching!
WATCO may not be available anymore. We made our own.. 2 gallons odorless Mineral spirits, 1 gallon of satin oil based poly, 1 gallon boiled Linseed oil. We use a cut off 55 gallon drum and soak our bowls for one hour. 2 weeks to dry.
sound like something to try! Although Watco is still readily available at Lowes. Thanks for watching!
I have not found the clear Watco anywhere. I have found the ratio we use is far less expensive. We have been using it for about 7 years. Saved us a lot of money.@@BrailsfordWoodworks
I will give it a chance!
speaking of lower cost turned pieces . my question is how much wood is given to you like many other turners but you add on that price to your piece as if you paid for the wood ? what a lot of you wood turners fail to mention to your audience is a lot of turners get wood for free , its given to them for nothing but charge the customer like the wood used was paid for.
I have not "paid" for wood in many years. However, even "free" wood comes with costs. There is my time, money (gas, oil etc), machine costs (chainsaws) that in a business must be accounted for. Also when I price my pieces there are many factors that go into that, the costs I previously mentioned, the time it takes to make a piece, and overhead (shop costs, electricity, insurance, tool costs, etc.). When running a business all costs must be accounted for, and then if you don't make a profit, there is not much point of being in business.
@@BrailsfordWoodworks i dont have a problem with someone charging for their time . i dont have a problem with someone making money by doing honest work . my problem is someone aquiring a piece of wood that costs an arm and a leg for nothing but yet charges the person buying the finished piece as if they had to pay for it . its the same as theft , thats dishonest business practice . i make knives and metal smith and when i use freely aquired materials to make something i only charge for my time and labor and not the materials . i didnt pay for them why should i charge the person who is buying the product for them. maybe im more honest than anyone else . i dont know. being this way i still make a profit and dont understand how others cant .
I guess I am not quite sure about what you mean by "charging for the wood".? I get my wood. I do my work with that wood. I then decide on a price. I put my product out there and it either will sell or it won't. If I am charging above what someone is willing to spend on it, then that is on my head. If someone looks at my product, looks at the price and decides that the piece is worth that amount to them, then who is cheated? I say no one. When I create a piece I do not itemize what I made the piece with, I simply decide on a total price based on the criteria I mentioned. But the esoteric question in all of this is, what is a piece of art worth? I mean that is what we are talking about. I have sold vases for $120 and I have sold one for $3200. That one was sold in a gallery and they were happy to get it. So did I cheat them? I certainly don't think so. In fact I think I may have been somewhat generous to them, based on what the piece was. Now if I make a standard salad bowl from Cherry and I get $80-$100 and Ashley Harwood makes one same size dimension, overall shape, she will get likely 4 to 5 times more than me. Is she cheating people? I don't think so. I would say I have seen far too many artists who vastly under value their work.
@@BrailsfordWoodworks i dont think you quite understand where im getting at . ill put it point blank. ashley hardwood paid for the wood they made the bowl out of , therefore the cost of their item is higher to make back what it cost them to acquire the wood to make the bowl. a lot of turners get their wood for free but add on to the price of their bowl as if they paid for the wood to make it . thats wrong . like i said if i acquire materials for free to make some of my knives and other forged items i dont add price of what material could of cost me for those materials. i only charge for my time ,experience and labor not cost of materials i didnt have to pay for and acquired for nothing. its called passing on the savings. you saved money by not having to pay for the materials why charge the customer for them . why not pass some of those savings on to the customers to? would bring a lot more customers to you and you would sell more of your product . like i said maybe im to honest and yet still make a really good profit. how is it others cant?
Ashley doesn't "pay" for her wood. I have been to her studio and taken a private lesson. One last thing... The cost of wood is one of the smallest parts of the entire transaction. My time is worth vastly more, and Ashley's way more than mine, based entirely on what her product is valued in the market. Again the price goes on, the market will buy it or not.