It's my Dad's birthday today and I made him a letter opener. To cut a long story short my Mum asked if I would be interested in making some pens for a craft fair they're doing for Christmas.
I'm interested in doing it but want to see if it's worthwhile first. It's not worth while if I can't make a profit on them and the likely customers will be OAPs. I'm not sure how much they're into buying pens?
I'm going to look into costs as last time I made some it cost about £10 to buy the materials and that was just for a slimline pen with a nice box and wood blank. Given a lot of the better pen kits themselves are quite expensive I'm not sure if it's going to be cost effective?
I am a novice so some of the more complicated pens are probably out. I've only done slimline kits so far as gifts but I'm guessing others are more popular for selling?
- What I was wondering was what would be the best kits to use?
- How much you would sell that pen for?
Thanks for any advice,
Jennifer
I'm interested in doing it but want to see if it's worthwhile first. It's not worth while if I can't make a profit on them and the likely customers will be OAPs. I'm not sure how much they're into buying pens?
I'm going to look into costs as last time I made some it cost about £10 to buy the materials and that was just for a slimline pen with a nice box and wood blank. Given a lot of the better pen kits themselves are quite expensive I'm not sure if it's going to be cost effective?
I am a novice so some of the more complicated pens are probably out. I've only done slimline kits so far as gifts but I'm guessing others are more popular for selling?
- What I was wondering was what would be the best kits to use?
- How much you would sell that pen for?
Thanks for any advice,
Jennifer