Customers; are an immutable part of doing a boat show as a vendor. They are your livelihood, your joy, and your bane.
Flashback Friday – The Killer Product
Something Special
I'm selective. I've learned over time that not everyone appreciates handmade gifts. I've also learned that most of my close friends and acquaintances find interest in wood grain, shape, and color, too. No, it's not that there is something wrong with manufactured. I have lots of prized manufactured items. It's just not the same as …
Judy’s Number Game- #66
These are designs for the ends of quarterboards.
Cane and Walking Stick Heads
Models and prototypes are important. They record what you like about a product, and offer a guide for improvement on the next iteration. When I did boat shows, most of my sales came from larger ticket items like eagles, transom banners, quarter boards, and boat portraits. But a significant amount also came from selling wooden …
Judy’s Number Game – #63
And the number is 184: Carved sign in Portland, Maine carving of a Southport 30 small eagle based on a design used on a paddlewheel steamboat a Boston Pilot schooner on a sea chest Pattern's hanging in my shop All carvings today. The only one that is not mine is the sign. The rest are …
Spree!!
Tool lust is a terrible thing to have.
A Carved Star – as maritme a decoration as you can get
A Carved Star - is as maritime a decoration as you can get
Boaty!
According to some of my friends in the maritime trades I know enough about boats to be dangerous. Well, OK, perhaps that's true, but can spile and help hang a plank and dolly a rivet. Yup, I just used some authentic boatbuilder slang that is impenetrable to the uninitiated. In plain English, I can cut …
Time
Time and good counsel are the greatest gifts a mentor can give to a student. Many things are most easily learned by tuition. You can stumble upon them or learn them from books. But they are easiest to learn from a mentor. Note that I do not say a master, as in master/apprentice. While there …
Judy’s Number Game – #59
And the number is, 180: a bunch of hand carved sloops and a schooner A hand carved letter opener Baby Jesus from Louis Charpentier's Nativity scene Boarding plank carving on the USS Constitution. Fantasy ship Wooden flowers All carvings this time around, but not only mine: 1.) The first one is mine. Periodically, I'll carve …
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