Peter Brown's ShopTime

5. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5. It happens. We all make mistakes at in the shop. I've had tough days where nothing seemed to go right. Sunday was one of them. 5 failures in a row. I was turning bracelets for an upcoming craft fair. I'm a little low on stock and very low on time. In fact I only have a week left to finish a whole bunch of stuff. All you can do is shrug it off and not worry about it. Or what I did. Take all the pieces inside and burn them in the fireplace laughing like a an evil supervilian. That works too...

Pink Acrylic Cross style pen SOLD Polished to 12000 MM to a mirror shine. Very cool pen.

Purple Acrylic polished to 12000 Mico Mesh. I really like the look of this one! SOLD Jatoba (AKA Brazillian Cherry) with homemade friction polish SOLD And a couple of Walnut bracelets also with homemade friction polish SOLD

Acquired some small olive blocks last month. Just the right size for some stoppers. Dropped them off at the consignment shop... All with a CA finish

Curly Maple with a shiny CA finish. SOLD Maple & Yellowheart with a CA finish. SOLD Mesquite with a shiny CA finish. SOLD Corian (The countertop material) Polished to 12000 grit. SOLD Purpleheart with a shiny CA finish. SOLD Zebra Acrylic Polished to 12000 grit. SOLD

I was in Santa Clara last week for training and visited this place. It was like a wood turners Mecca. They also have slabs and lumber, but I've got a local place that does that too. What I don't have is three rows of shelves stuffed with exotic turning blocks! And the prices were great. Global Wood Source Exotics: Lumber & Slabs $123 Claro Guitar slabs Domestics: ($4 per lb Maple burl.) I also hit up their scrap bin and scored a 2x3x12 block of Olive and a small block of zircote for $5 each. A portion of the olive has already been turned into some bottle stoppers. A very cool shop!

Even with the shear number of folks selling woodworking items on Ebay, I still have managed to sell more pens via Ebay in the past 2 months then I ever did from a year of being in a shop. Plus I get more for each item while it cost the end user less! All this because I don't have to split my sales with a shop, or deal with the possible product loss or poor product placement. Just when I thought Ebay was becoming irreverent, it goes and surprises me.