Weekend Show Results

[WODAD]

Did a show this weekend in Pierre South Dakota. It is part of the Governor's invitational Pheasant Hunt where artists are invited to in to display and market their work. I started Friday afternoon with 79 pieces and finished the show with less than 30. Small boxes and gobletts didn't sell well, natural edge bowls were the animal of choice. Once again no interest in thin stuff considered to fragile with no purpose! If I would have had another 20 bowls they'd be gone too. have attached a couple of pic's of my display, sorry not a photograhper and was very busy, took the pic's and let it go t that. Missed the third shelf I had bit too late now. Prices from $450 to $15.

Frank D

 

[Max Taylor]

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Way to go. Nice display case.I'm having a show Nov. 20'th. Only bottle-stoppers, pens and a few bowls. Space very limited. A 5X8 space. Room for 1 table.Dustpan.

 

[Wilford Bickel]

Congratulations on a good show Frank! Interesting your comments on them not wanting fragile items. Around here they prefer usable items that are heavy enough to feel like wood. What would you say the average thickness on the bowls that sold so well would have been?

Wilford

 

[WODAD]

Congratulations on a good show Frank! Interesting your comments on them not wanting fragile items. Around here they prefer usable items that are heavy enough to feel like wood. What would you say the average thickness on the bowls that sold so well would have been?

Wilford

Wilford,

Not much under a half an inch. Had a 12 in. dia. manzanita bowl, just under 1/2 in. thick and about 11 in high. Did have just a couple of small bowls that were about 1/4 of an in. but they were only 3-4 in in dia. Had some large cedar bowls, they were a full 3/4 in thick 9 to 11 in. dia and tall. All natural edge only had two standard type bowls. And of course the 4 very thin pieces, when you held them in your hand you could barely tell there was anything there, "very nice, beautiful!, but what do you do with it?"

My plan will be to make a goblet or two once in awhile for fun and skill building. No more really thin stuff, will get into wine stoppers and with a new lathe inbound I had several requests for very large bowls.

This is too addicting, I love it!

 

[Bill Grumbine]

Congratulations on a good show!

Once again no interest in thin stuff considered to fragile with no purpose! If I would have had another 20 bowls they'd be gone too.
Frank D

This is what I have found to be the case many times myself, although in reading your response to Wilford below, yours are still thin compared to mine. 😀 My best selling salad bowls range from about 3/4" to 1" plus. Natural edged bowls will go down to around 1/4" though, with bark inclusion bowls thicker.

Which piece went for $450?

Bill

 

[WODAD]

Manzanita, very rough edge full of voids, the guy bought it and I thought his wife was going to cry right there! Because she was happy no that he spent the money. 🙂

 

[WODAD]

Way to go. Nice display case.I'm having a show Nov. 20'th. Only bottle-stoppers, pens and a few bowls. Space very limited. A 5X8 space. Room for 1 table.Dustpan.

Thank you, the shelf was really easy to make, only hit my finger once! It folds up flat and just fits in the back of my truck. All one piece no parts to haul around and assemble, two to load, one can carry it. Not a carpenter or I could have taken a few orders for those too!

Frank D