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Posted by Chilla on November 26, 2006, 7:48 pm
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Trevor Jones wrote:
> From a personal perspective.
>
> I decided a while back, that doing my hobbies, for other peoples
> profits, made my hobbies into work, thus not a relaxing way to spend my
> time.
>
> Very occasionally, I have made small runs of parts for other people,
> but I sold them at full retail, or otherwise got what I felt my leisure
> time was worth to me out of them. On some occasions, I have been able to
> trade my goods for goods that others had that they were not willing to
> sell at any price (at least not any I was going to offer), and we were
> both satisfied with the deal.
>
> I figure that a guy could jig up and do these in a couple minutes each.
> A die for the taper, a jig for the bends. They all would look like
> production ironwork, and I would not want to own one, for that reason.
> If they were each made start to finish by handwork, I would expect to
> spend about 20 or a bit more minutes each making them, say 25 minutes
> total including a nice finish, each. 2500 minutes, a bit over 41 hours
> for a hundred, even at half that, that's still 20 hours work for $300.
>
> I'd have to be drooling over something that I could really not afford
> otherwise, to spend 41 hours working on a pile of parts for someone
> else, and the price I got would have to justify that, too.
>
> At the end of it all, I would hate spending time in my shop. That's a
> tough thing to feel about a leisure time activity. It becomes not fun.
>
> Since I do the stuff for fun and relaxation, that kinda ruins the whole
> vibe.
>
> Cheers
> Trevor Jones
Hi Trevor,
Yep I can relate a little, the unfortunate thing for me is that, when I
make stuff people want to buy it. I haven't really learnt to say no
just yet, and end up over loaded :-(
Regards Charles
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