Product/Sale opportunity

[bugbear]

http://www.pastrychef.com/CHINOIS-WOODE ... _2730.html

Nice price if you can get it...

BugBear

 

[graduate_owner]

Take a look at some of the accessories sold for spinnng wheels. You will be amazed at the cost of some primitive woodwork ( niddy noddy for over £40 for example, and it is literally 3 piecs of turned wood). I made a drum carder for just the cost of the cloth and a dive belt, about £60. Cost to buy - upwards of £400.


K

 

[Jacob]

Good to know that people can make a living from woodwork bits n bobs.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Yes, I can just see it in my mind's eye - a time served craftsman of old, a real horny handed son of toil slaving 12 hours a day, six days a week in the little country workshop where his father, grandfather and great grandfather had toiled before him making chinois pestles.

 

[Jacob]

Or it may be somebody from this forum having a go.
It does seem to worry some amateur woodworkers that people make and sell wooden things.

 

[duncanh]

Take a look at some of the accessories sold for spinnng wheels. You will be amazed at the cost of some primitive woodwork ( niddy noddy for over £40 for example, and it is literally 3 piecs of turned wood). I made a drum carder for just the cost of the cloth and a dive belt, about £60. Cost to buy - upwards of £400.
K

Out of interest, where did you get the carding cloth from? Someone at work was interested in getting me to make one but I could only find the supplies in the US

 

[Jacob]

Had to look up drum carder

One here at £320, seems cheap to me

 

[Rhossydd]

http://www.pastrychef.com/CHINOIS-WOODEN-PESTLE_p_2730.html
Nice price if you can get it...

So about £17 in sterling > knock off the retailer's percentage > cost of delivery to retailer > 12"x3"x3" quality Beech isn't cheap > amount to cover capital cost of kit, premises and business running costs > How much per hour for labour ?

It seems a fair enough price to me.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Yes I must say I didn't think it was that expensive either??

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Nor I. It's at least for a relatively specialised market - not like
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/17220673 ... pla&crdt=0

 

[bugbear]

I'd have thought even a basic copy lathe would spit these out like shelling peas.

Information to the contrary welcome.

BugBear

 

[Jacob]

I'd have thought even a basic copy lathe would spit these out like shelling peas.

...

er - so what?
They may not have the demand for mass production and are just buying small batches (e.g.less than 100 at a go?).

An all-hands-on turner would also do them pretty quick once into the swing of it.

What are you trying to say?

I think it's quite good that not everybody goes for the IKEA type option - it means there's hope for man in shed!
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/76485605/
In any case there's nothing like it in the IKEA catalogue.

 

[Rhossydd]

I'd have thought even a basic copy lathe would spit these out like shelling peas.

Coming off a copy lathe it would then need some final finishing by hand, possibly more than if hand turned. Plus a copy lathe would cost more in capital depreciation.

 

[Stiggy]

http://www.pastrychef.com/CHINOIS-WOODEN-PESTLE_p_2730.html
Nice price if you can get it...

So about £17 in sterling > knock off the retailer's percentage > cost of delivery to retailer > 12"x3"x3" quality Beech isn't cheap > amount to cover capital cost of kit, premises and business running costs > How much per hour for labour ?

It seems a fair enough price to me.

Quoted for truth!

 

[mind_the_goat]

It does seem to worry some amateur woodworkers that people make and sell wooden things.

Yes, it's quite shocking what goes on behind closed workshop doors

 

[graduate_owner]

Hi Duncan,
I bought the cardng cloth from Wingham Wool. It took a while to arrive because I think their machinery is old, traditional kit and goes out of adjustment so they had a backlog to meet. However the cloth seems good quality, with stainless steel wire.

My version is a Mark I and not very pretty but my wife seems happy with it so there may never be a Mark II. I searched the web for designs but only found people using rolling pins etc. so I looked at some photos and then designed my own. Let me know if you want any information on my design, such as it is.

K

 

[duncanh]

Hi Duncan,
I bought the cardng cloth from Wingham Wool. It took a while to arrive because I think their machinery is old, traditional kit and goes out of adjustment so they had a backlog to meet. However the cloth seems good quality, with stainless steel wire.

My version is a Mark I and not very pretty but my wife seems happy with it so there may never be a Mark II. I searched the web for designs but only found people using rolling pins etc. so I looked at some photos and then designed my own. Let me know if you want any information on my design, such as it is.

K

Thanks.

The colleague who suggested it tends to get excited about projects and then distracted by the next one and so I suspect that I'll never make one. It sounded like a fun, unusual build though.

 

[bugbear]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lacor-60300-CH ... ds=chinois

£4.04.

That's more like it.

BugBear

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I like the links underneath that - you can even buy a "bullion" strainer. :lol:

 

[Stiggy]

I like the links underneath that - you can even buy a "bullion" strainer. :lol:

I'm going to buy one Phil - I always wanted a way to make my heavy gold bars more manageable!

:lol: