Maid O'Mud Pottery on mon 1 jan 01
As per usual on New Years day, I decided to throw something I never made
before. So, I got out my copy of PMI, and threw four 1/2 lb salt
shakers as per instructions by our own Dannon. I plan on using them for
glaze experimenting, as suggested. I was wondering, though, *if* they
work out, what the suggested retail might be? I retail 1 lb mugs at
$15, if this helps to give a yardstick. They are about as much work as
a mug, to me.
Can anyone give me a starting point?
--
Sam, Maid O'Mud Pottery
SW Ontario CANADA
http://www.geocities.com/paris/3110
scuttell@odyssey.on.ca
"First, the clay told me what to do
Then, I told the clay what to do
Now; we co-operate"
sam, 1994
"Effort does not always equal output"
sam, 1999
Gayle Bair on tue 2 jan 01
Hi Sam,
I made several of them and took them
to the local Farmers Market.
It was a slow day there but the
people who saw them loved them.
I changed the design. They look
a bit like Easter eggs.
I am selling them for $10 each.
If you want to see a photo let me know
and I'll send you one (jpg).
I put salt in them and when someone showed
interest I asked them to figure out what
was it's purpose. When stumped I told them to
hold out their hand and shook it.
They looked at them and said
"But it doesn't have holes
on the top" and "How do you fill it".
I plan to make more and sell them when
the Farmers Market opens in the Spring.
I plan to make them look
even more like Easter eggs then.
I may even make some
"egg cup" holders for them. If I do the
price will be higher.
Gayle Bair- Bainbridge Island Thank You
Dannon for the great idea. Do we owe you
royalties????
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Subject: Salt Shakers - suggested retail?
As per usual on New Years day, I decided to throw something I never made
before. So, I got out my copy of PMI, and threw four 1/2 lb salt
shakers as per instructions by our own Dannon. I plan on using them for
glaze experimenting, as suggested. I was wondering, though, *if* they
work out, what the suggested retail might be? I retail 1 lb mugs at
$15, if this helps to give a yardstick. They are about as much work as
a mug, to me.
Can anyone give me a starting point?
--
Sam, Maid O'Mud Pottery
SW Ontario CANADA
http://www.geocities.com/paris/3110
scuttell@odyssey.on.ca
Chris Schafale on tue 2 jan 01
Sam,
I tried them this Christmas season, just for fun. I priced them at $7
(probably too low). I explained and demonstrated them about 500
times at my various shows, and sold a total of 4. They were a
great way to start conversation with customers, though. I don't
think they would do well in a shop/gallery situation without
someone to explain them, since not a single person figured them
out on their own. Maybe if you had a little sign with a cutaway
diagram and an explanation? When I stuck the leftovers in the
shop where I consign work during the off-season, I just called them
paperweights. Better luck to you.
Chris
> As per usual on New Years day, I decided to throw something I never made
> before. So, I got out my copy of PMI, and threw four 1/2 lb salt
> shakers as per instructions by our own Dannon. I plan on using them for
> glaze experimenting, as suggested. I was wondering, though, *if* they
> work out, what the suggested retail might be? I retail 1 lb mugs at
> $15, if this helps to give a yardstick. They are about as much work as
> a mug, to me.
>
> Can anyone give me a starting point?
>
> --
> Sam, Maid O'Mud Pottery
> SW Ontario CANADA
> http://www.geocities.com/paris/3110
> scuttell@odyssey.on.ca
>
> "First, the clay told me what to do
> Then, I told the clay what to do
> Now; we co-operate"
> sam, 1994
>
> "Effort does not always equal output"
> sam, 1999
>
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TERRANCE LAZAROFF on tue 2 jan 01
------Original Message------
From: "Maid O'Mud Pottery"
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Sent: January 2, 2001 3:25:25 AM GMT
Subject: Salt Shakers - suggested retail?
If the object takes the same time as your mugs then it should be a fair
starting point.
If you want to really analyze the cost estimates and price then I suggest
going to:
http://members.NBCi.com/Zalt57/
Terrance
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Joyce Lee on tue 2 jan 01
Chris Schafale wrote:
> I tried them this Christmas season, just for fun. I priced them at $7
> (probably too low). I explained and demonstrated them about 500
> times at my various shows, and sold a total of 4.
I finally learned to make the salters halfway to my satisfaction, made
12 (a feat for me) and put them in our local beauty
shop/boutique-at-the-front for $8.00 each. Sold out. Cone 10. Reduction.
Glazed copper red, copper purple (and a 50/50 mixture of the two (all
Tom Coleman's), Aegean Blue (commercial glaze from Aardvark in Santa
Ana), same Aegean Blue with Coleman's white over it, Apple Green celadon
(Elaine Coleman's), and an Angel Eyes (Jack Troy's) with wax resist so
that it had light blue or tannish streaks on what somewhat resembles
Woo Blue, but I like it better. Don't know why they sold ... nobody
available to explain their use. I did get a potter/artist friend to do a
small sketch of a hand supposedly shaking one with supposedly salt
coming out... and I did label them Pet Salties. I don't even have one
for myself now, not even a picture. I didn't expect them to sell. Mostly
crude small jars in that boutique with "World's Best ...." and handmade
greeting cards (nice ones). Who knows what would happen next time?
Probably nothing. Like my 10 magnets that sold so fast. Then I made 50
and sold ONE!! AND I have other forms on my mind just waiting to get
back in the studio.... next week, I'm hoping.
Joyce
In the Mojave sort of missing the snow, changing seasons (real seasons),
the cold, the Polar Bear Club in a Kentucky lake on New Year's Day
(yeah, right, I really miss that!) ... where a roaring fire is
functional rather than just decorative.....
L. P. Skeen on tue 2 jan 01
Sam,
I get $18 for that style salt shakers, but I"m in the USA.
L
----- Original Message ----- I was wondering, though, *if* they
> work out, what the suggested retail might be? I retail 1 lb mugs at
> $15, if this helps to give a yardstick. They are about as much work as
> a mug, to me.
>
Dannon Rhudy on wed 3 jan 01
>I plan to make more and sell them when
>the Farmers Market opens in the Spring.
>I plan to make them look
>even more like Easter eggs ......
>Gayle Bair- Bainbridge Island ....
Thank You
>Dannon for the great idea. Do we owe you
>royalties????.......
Your "Easter Egg" shape will no doubt do well in
the appropriate season! If it does really REALLY
well then OF COURSE there are royalties....I wish.
But nahhhhh - and anyway that idea was not original
with me. Don't even know where I first heard of it.
Just about any shape is possible I'd think as long
as it can contain a double wall. No limits.
regards
Dannon Rhudy
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