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Dustyknees

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Knocking out Keychains..
« on: November 20, 2011, 03:35:14 pm »
I took a freebie-keychain to my favorite nurse at my Doctor's office and walked out with 33 orders for keychains from 6 nurses and two Doctors! I do these out of 1/4 inch red oak,lemon oiled. I get $5 per keychain and can't keep up with the orders,LOL. Makes for lots of saw-time and helps with the bills. Plus they're fun to cut!

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Re: Knocking out Keychains..
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2011, 04:19:06 pm »
nice work you did a good job with them thanks for sharing.good sales to by the way
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Re: Knocking out Keychains..
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2011, 04:30:27 pm »
Looking good. Congrats..
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« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2011, 04:33:43 pm »
Very nice, I'll have to try those sometime.
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Re: Knocking out Keychains..
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2011, 05:01:44 pm »
Excellent! It's nice when you can make some spending money doing what you like!
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Re: Knocking out Keychains..
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2011, 07:57:45 pm »
So good to see! :)  I am happy for you.  What a fun way to 'play Santa' while playing in the sawdust. :)

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Re: Knocking out Keychains..
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2011, 08:51:32 pm »
I took orders for eight of that style key chain one time. My rate was $3.00 each.
I learned the hard way to charge $1.00 per letter.
The customer wanted to use LAST names and the shortest one had eight letters in it!! Each one of the 8 took twice as long to cut than a normal 4 or 5 letter first name.  ;D
One of the key chains ended up about 1/2" square and 3" long!  ::)

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Re: Knocking out Keychains..
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2011, 09:15:05 pm »
Very nice group of 'fobs'....

I have several to make for Present Tags for those who didn't get one last year.

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Dustyknees

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Re: Knocking out Keychains..
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2011, 10:57:06 pm »
"Present tags" are a great idea! Thanks Greybeard.
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Re: Knocking out Keychains..
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2011, 11:03:23 pm »
Thanks all for the nice comments. I've always had a hard time doing pricing on my work. So I ask the buyer what they would pay,and the general consensus was that $5 for the key chains is a fair price. Although when I get a name like "Alexandria" I cringe,lol
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Re: Knocking out Keychains..
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2011, 12:38:27 am »
That is great 'Dusty' one small gift can go a loooong way.  Well done.

GB thats a fantastic idea with the gift tags, thanks.

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Offline BilltheDiver

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Re: Knocking out Keychains..
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2011, 01:30:50 am »
I made one from bloodwood for a receptionist @ my doctors office last year and her daughter managed to break it.  I made her a replacement slightly larger, and out of paduk.  Let's see her break that one!
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Re: Knocking out Keychains..
« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2011, 03:18:42 am »
nice! strange how such smaller projects sometimes become sellers!
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Re: Knocking out Keychains..
« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2011, 07:18:49 am »
They look fantastic, nice work. Or how about Christopher, Wilhelmina, Jacqueline LOL.  ;)
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Re: Knocking out Keychains..
« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2011, 08:53:51 am »
excellent job, very good cuts
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