Band saw and lathe made it back today. Almost 2 years in storage. Our son is old enough to help me with the heavy stuff. Dust collection set up is needed first.
I was perusing an LLBean catalog and came across your chairs. At $300 a pop you have some serious cash sitting in there. Nice.
I am delivering 5 chairs tomorrow! I am assembling 2 chairs today for another customer. I bought a Grizzly drum sander yesterday to speed up sanding. After this week I will have sold 10 chairs! I also made 7 children’s chairs for my grand nephews and nieces. This is Tomorrow’s delivery.
An adult chair is $150, it’s $175 if I paint it white. I have roughly $50 in materials so I make about $100 per chair.
Those sound like great numbers. How bout a rough estimate for time. I know that new sander makes a big difference
Too much time! At least 5 hours. I’m hoping to get that below 4 with the new sander. I just keep making them and with that I find short cuts and speed up the process. I want to make the best chairs I can and offer great customer service, I think the chairs will sell. I don’t need to make a ton of money but I’m not working for free either. It’s nice to be able to make some money working part time in my garage.
Selling items just let me buy more tools. Feeds the habit. Deadlines and commitments take the fun out of it.
No, they seem very expensive and heavy. A 16’ composite board is $100! They get very hot sitting in the sun.
Wow, I really lost track of this thread. Thanks for giving it a bump TurboDiesel Some nice chairs Jack Straw justdraftn your woodwork is simply elegant. I'm looking forward to getting the polebarn built, and finally setting up a workshop. Polebarn will have 200 amp service, that should be quite adequate I think. If anyone thinks that would be insufficient, lemme know.
