Post #655753 by Monkeyman on Mon, Oct 15, 2012 10:23 AM

When I started creating for others several years back I realized that I could never keep up with custom requests.

At one point I had 40 people waiting for a custom frame and I was carving it all by hand at the time so each one took me about 2 weeks (after work and spare time on the weekends)

I realized that all of the enjoyment was being sucked out of the process because now I had people waiting on me. The longer they waited the more disappointed they became.

Instead of making someones day, I felt like I was letting someone down.

I decided to completely wipe out the "list" and just make stuff when I had time and find a buyer for it AFTER the product was complete.

Pricing is all an issue of finding the right audience/buyer. Unless you are remarkably fast or have some way to automate, its unlikely you will charge a price that will make this worth your time.

Mostly I found that the money I earned kept me from watching so much TV and helped defray the costs of attending tiki events. In the end... I do it because I like it. When I dont like it, I stop and wait a while.

Good luck