Jelly, you don't seriously think there's much there done by hand, do you? "Hand made by skilled craftsmen in our own workshops" sounds so much better than "knocked out by the score on a couple of old machines in fred's garage".
marcros":1mm20v1q said:that is like anything though- adding a bit of romance to the product through marketting. It helps the customer feel like they have something special, of high quality and unique.
They probably wouldnt sell any if they said "Chopping board from a piece of wood that I bought from somewhere. Actually it was an offcut that i was going to throw away. I could tell you where it came from, but all wood comes from somewhere, so I wont bother. Then i chucked it through some old machines and bunged on some oil".
phil.p":bl6mjr9z said:Mike, I was thinking more of the waney edged and knotty boards, but looking back I notice they do differentiate between chopping boards and presentation boards (whether a user would or not is a different matter). I read many years ago that wood was found to be safe - in fact it was found safe at the same time as they banned it's use! We've now got to the point that to make a ham and tomato sandwich (commercially), we have to use three chopping boards and four knives.
G S Haydon":bl6mjr9z said:If the product, price and concept are wrong the business will fail
If the product, price and concept are right the business will do well
Applies to most things, even those "american novelty plane makers"
The price isn't "reasonable" either way - it is just the market price which suits the vendor, and good luck to him too!bugbear":uvopt338 said:I note that various people, mainly people selling woodwork, seem to find the price reasonable from the vendor's perspective.
That's a valid point of view. But there's another, equally valid one.
Might I ask how many people here would actually pay the prices asked on that site for a chopping board, i.e. find the price reasonable from a purchaser's perspective?
BugBear
I've bought some really poor chefs knives that can't take or hold an edge, or are too thick to work properly.marcros":3tu3tdes said:...just the same as you can cut your carrots with a £3 chefs knife.
Harbo":fbqfjo5g said:Used to get that problem when staying at my Mums or Mum-in- law - expected to carve a joint with a knife as blunt as a table knife!
We've learnt to take them out instead.
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