Episode 220

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Huntingdon Valley PA Store GRAND OPENING! October 26th 2024

Join us for the grand opening of the store / maker meetup! There will be free food, launch day discounts, hands on with your favorite woodworking supplies and great company!

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What's on our bench: 🎶

Dan loves working with his helper, whipped out a pizza peal, he got a new dust collector, he loves his 3D printer, and is working on a new youtube video.

Braden is dealing with finished projects taking up space, planning for pop-up shops and craft fairs, optimizing his shipping and signage for shipping and craft fairs, he picked up a kitchen island build, and released a new 3D printed product!

Pete picked up sapele with keith from willard brothers for his adirondack chairs, decluttered his shop a bit by gifting his neighbor some workshop items and moving his lathe into storage for now, and celebrating his 4 year wedding anniversary / 12 year dating anniversary,

This week in Maker News 📰

• Chilhood cancer chalenge has $4000 in prizes for makers that participate.
  • makersforstjude.org
• Pine Barren Maker Fest is this weekend! 9/21-9/22
  • https://pinebarrenevents.com/
• Maker Camp is less than 20 days away!
  • https://catskillmountainmakerscamp.com/

Questions:

Morgan Hop

How do you guys stay consistent with your recording?

Thomas

latelieraboie

Hey! Thomas here with a question about painted nots.

Almost a year ago I made this huge book shelf for pine board and I painted it white as demanded by my client. I even use a primer but last week I went there to discuss a new project and looking at the book shelf I noticed that all the nots were visible as if they absorb all the white paint.

Any idea what happened there?

How to avoid this?

Thanks!

Alex Adams

Type A Furniture

How do you deal with your business being on your property?

Where do you dispose fo your sawdust?

Sarah Goldstein

Rosie's Woodshop

I've been thinking about bringing a lathe to craft shows to do live demos, but i am having a hard time with logistics. Please help!

How do you price out your lasering? By time? Is there a website like there is for 3D printing? Should I just see what it sells for on etsy?

One example is birth milestones

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Episode 219

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WTB Woodworking
Huntingdon Valley PA Store GRAND OPENING! October 26th 2024

Join us for the grand opening of the store / maker meetup! There will be free food, launch day discounts, hands on with your favorite woodworking supplies and great company!

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What's on our bench: 🎶

Dan is getting caught up with only 4 orders overdue, planning to work on a youtube video, got his second 3D printer, started prepping for holiday season, and making some cutting boards.

Braden is wrapping up the laser job, filled his shop with boxes, working with his new clamp rack, quoted a kitchen island build, and is prepping for craft fair season.

Pete has been working on laser files, printing and laser cutting new fun things to get organized, processed all the plywood he picked up last week, and started lasering stuff with the fiber laser to get familiar with the settings.

This week in Maker News 📰

Childhood cancer challenge has $4000 in prizes for makers that participate. makersforstjude.org

Questions:

Sarah Goldstein

Rosie's Woodshop

Should I use some vintage nice looking tables that people were going to throw out for my workbenches or build new ones?

Alex Adams

Type A Furniture

Are you upgrading your iPhones?

If you had to run through a dollar store and got to laod up your cart, what would you get?

Cody Roberts

CodyRobertsWorkshop

Braden you mentioned UV printing before for cornhold boards. can you share where you got those?

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https://www.etsy.com/shop/awpstore

Pete:

https://www.instagram.com/ptreesworkshop/

https://www.youtube.com/ptreesworkshop

https://www.etsy.com/shop/pTreesWorkShop

Dan:

https://www.instagram.com/danieldunlap.woodworks/

https://www.youtube.com/danieldunlap

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ddwwstore

Braden:

https://www.instagram.com/littlebugwoodworking/

https://www.youtube.com/@littlebugwoodworking

https://littlebugwoodworking.com/

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Episode 218

TOPIC: Holiday Prep the set up your shop for success.

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What's on our bench: 🎶

Dan is catching up on orders and is getting in the teens, right before getting a rush again, Sutton his helper has been a great backup in the shop, and he's dealing with some bad reviews?

Braden got a bunch of slabs from the omah-bros stash, installed the clamp companions, picked up a bunch of tools from a facebook marketplace score, and fixed his CNC tramming issue.

Pete is getting into the groove of things in the shop, working on trying out a new paint, went and picked up material from Makerstock, and visited Patrick Gensel.

TOPIC: Holiday Prep the set up your shop for success.

Our Holiday Prep List:

1. Plan ahead

2. Set clear goals and priorities

3. Notify friends and family and plan around events

4. DEADLINES - set deadlines and boundaries

5. DON’T FORGET Halloween, thanksgiving

6. Stock up on materials

7. Figure out your shipping and fulfillment - shipping and packaging

8. Research trends and popular items for the holidays - etsy holiday report, erank, tiktok, pintrest, etc.

9. Set up processes / efficiency / Plan out batching of items

10. Leverage social media / online marketing

11. Abandoned cart / thank you discounts

12. Personalization / holiday wrapping

13. Stock up on items where possible for those last minute shoppers

14. Self care / Don’t burn out!

15. Evaluate performance and take notes for next year!

Links:

https://bulkcuttingboards.com/

https://www.etsy.com/seller-handbook?ref=handbook

Questions:

Patrick Gensal

Dan can you give me your exact dimensions, material, and keywords for the C tables and slide tables? k thanks!

Sarah Goldstein

Rosie's Woodshop

These questions all pertain to in person craft shows.

1. So last year I made as much as I could, but didn't have my own shop so I bought things wholesale from some friends and sold them. They sold really well and I'm debating to do them again. What are your thoughts?

2. Do I go ham and make a ton of pens or learn something new with my new machines? I only have maybe an hour through monday-friday each day and Saturday to do stuff.

3. Do I have many diverse items with low count or a lot of the same things for craft shows with high count?

4. Should I premake ornaments with what I think they should say or just have samples and let people pick what they want (but then they are waiting around for it to laser). I can still add customizations.

5. I over did the craft shows last year and got burnt out and took off January and February, how do I avoid that? I don't think I'm going to sign up for as many shows but I do enjoy them.

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