Sale of Hand Made Turned Spheres *LINK*

Re: Sale of Hand Made Turned Spheres

Dick Coers

Wow, only 12 days in and it's a catastrophe? Sorry for the predicament!

questions and ideas

John K Jordan

You might want to post this in the Classified section. It might be tough to sell woodturnings to wood turners but perfect spheres are more unique! Maybe some flat guys would be interested if you put it on the Classified board. Also, on SMC and elsewhere?

Are all the one's on your web page available now? If so, I see a couple I would like to buy. Do they come with the display stands??

Hey, have you ever done any from basswood? I'd be interested in a few perfect spheres from good northern basswood for chip carving. I was going to buy a sphere jig some day but I would gladly buy some. They must not have any finish. You can contact me by email if you like.

Also, depending on the price I may know some other people who would like basswood spheres for carving. Most chip carvers work only on flat things, probably because they can't easily buy round things (and it's a lot harder to carve too!)

If you don't have any good basswood it's available at most woodcarving shops or I could send you some. I saw some at the Klingspor store in Asheville. Where do you live?

This is an example of some of my first chip carvings on turned things. (sorry if you've seen these when I posted them before)

I started this new hobby a few months ago and I've been having a lot of fun! Here is a goblet partially completed.

Hey, I just had an idea. Someone wants me to make some ornaments similar to what is in the picture (the shape can be creative) but I don't know if I'll have the time. If you are interested I could put you in touch with him. What I sent him were similar and he was quite excited. Basswood is so light it doesn't need hollowed. They need finials but the finials should probably not be glued in.

JKJ

Picky

Geoff Whaling

John, I have had similar requests but they expect to purchase them at the same price or cheaper than mass produced spheres from the box stores.

When I have explained the benefits, the difference in finish quality, hand vs mass produced etc the response is usually yes that is why I want yours but they are too expensive for me to be able to sell after doing my work on them. When I have produced them at a lesser finish to suit their budget the response is can you do the same finish as on the other ones - they were better. Argh!

website critique

Dale Bonertz

I went to your site which is a nice looking and clean site. One bothersome thing, for me, was there is no picture of you or your name doesn't appear anywhere that I could easily see. On your About Me page there should be at least your name and in my opinion a picture of you or you in your shop would be better. Maybe this is by design that you left out your name and picture. I think people feel more of a connection with and artist or utility turner when they at least know their name but a picture makes you even more real. You have no problem mentioning others names like David, Michael, John and etc. so why not your own. Just my 2cents.

Re: website critique

bowlman

Thanks Dale, I'll look into it. Shopify uses templates and they are somewhat restrictive. And you are right, a picture and name would be much better. Especially if I can get it on all the pages.

Re: website critique

bowlman

changes made ... hope my web guy made it look good ...