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Hi,

Enjoyed looking at your work!

The dove one reminds me of some fret work shade pulls I made........ think silver dollar size.

As far as marketing templates, I would have to say that yes router users like myself have been known to buy things. I have the SpiroCrafter and various other shaping templates (circles, ovals, butterflies and the like). The big thing will be can you make them and sell them cheap enough? The spirocrafter sells for about $40 with a holder, two templates, sub-base, centering gauge, pencil holder, guide bushings, and booklet and combined you end up with 10 shapes that make many many different projects......

Now if you are going to sell me a template for say $100 I would most likely be saying to myself "make it yourself"... now if it were $10 I'd order one. Other people who are saying doing craft shows may say "I can sell that tree for $25 and if I can make 100 of these...."

Just a few thought... as some people like to say you get what you pay for and in this case my thoughts are free.

Ed

 

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Not to get to much into this but what about making a template to make the templates?

Also just for reference what is the size of one of these? I'm picturing like 8"-10" but maybe I'm way off.

Ed

 

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I'm even more impressed, they are very large pieces!

I can see your problem with the amount of time it takes for development and then making a master template then to making a template to sell... you have a lot of hours and materials invested. In ruff terms you have 3 * 8 * $25 = $600 + $30 (mat'l) = $630 for the main template, then 3 * $25 = $75 + $30 (mat'l) = $105.... now it you sell 10 of them it adds up to $105 + $63 = $168 + overhead makes them around $200 ea.

Interesting to think about.....

Ed