Craft fair

[Kyle Stapleton]

Well we are at our first one:eek:

[scottp55]

Good Luck Kyle! :)
Is enclosure 3 sides and just slid on?
Did she travel easy enough on cart?

[Kyle Stapleton]

Cart work great. It I picked the wrong wheels the parking lot ate them up.

Yes it is 3 side slip on with removable plixi glass for bit changes.

[scottp55]

How did people like the Desktop?
Any sales? or wrong type Craft Fair?
Were you cutting?

[Kyle Stapleton]

Sold about 25 corian cutting boards in 6 hours.
Used the bot to put in drip trays and v carved names on them so it turned out well.
Handed out a lot of business cards and talked to a lot of people so I hope we will get more business from that.

[scottp55]

Sounds like you may not have charged enough :)
Excellent for a first show.
Did you put any contact info on cutting board itself ?

[Kyle Stapleton]

No did not have time, but might have to add them on the rest.

[scottp55]

Use a wedging jig?
You can get pretty small with something like Franklin Gothic Demi Bold and a 45VBit and still be unobtrusive and legible.( Drillman1's on E-Bay little $4 1/8's are great for that, as you can always afford to throw a new sharp one in.)

[Kyle Stapleton]

Yes only moved once.
You have a link? What feed and speeds

[scottp55]

Kyle I try to stay with his Kyocera Tycom brand, but bought some of these from 30-90 degree and hard telling the difference. Celtic buttons were done with these in a 90- and just used his 1/8"EM in old dry Rosewood with excellent results. He has an 8 piece set with the full range 30-120 degrees for $40 that looks good for playing.
Haven't cut Corian, but Black Walnut through Bloodwood, .8-1.1, .4-.6, 14-16K at 1/2 diameter passes--Usually duplicate toolpath/edit and then run a 1.6-2.0,1,16K clean up pass if needed(still working on best depth for speed, but .09"pass works good for quality).
http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-45-degree-angle-carbide-bits-for-scoring-or-engraving-/151461399199?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2343cd8a9f

[genek]

KYLE Did you have fun, after all was said and done what was your profit margin. Love seeing others doing craft shows.

[Kyle Stapleton]

We did have a good time. The table was manned by myself and two students, the six hours went very fast.

We did 500.00 in sales and handed out about 70 business cards. I hope to be hearing from some of those the grabed a card and said they would be calling for some custom pieces.

It was all profit... (2 hours of bot time and 2 of sanding), a local cabnet shop (O'Keefe Inc.) give us all the cut offs of corian.