Okay, I’m guilty. My turning lately has been sporadic. Now before you leave the page, hang on, there were reasons and some were even good ones! All kidding aside, whether it has been two years or two weeks your wood lathe needs maintenance. In addition to maintaining your lathe make sure you always turn safely …
How to Choose a Mini Lathe
I’m going to purchase a mini lathe. During the winter months the shop is way too cold and it would take forever to warm up even standing 6 feet from the wood stove. A mini lathe would let me turn pens, small spindle turnings, bird houses, Christmas ornaments, small bowls, and lidded boxes. The larger …
10 Tips for Product Photography that Sells
When you list your hand turned bowls, spindles, and other work in your online store, Etsy store, Facebook, or Pinterest use these product photography tips to get the attention you deserve. So often when I’m looking through turning blogs or checking out what my fellow turners are doing on Facebook, I realize their sales are …
Sales Training for the Artisan
Craft Fair Selling I’m sure you’ve experienced this. I certainly have. You are standing in your booth at an art show and a customer walks in. The customer looks at your products but doesn’t say anything or look at anything in particular. Your throat goes a bit dry. Your palms get sweaty. What do you …
Seed Starting Pot Maker
It’s seed starting time. You’ll want a few of these in your inventory for the farmer’s markets and craft shows. It’s used to turn pieces of newspaper into seed starting pots. Gardeners will love it. This easy to make seed starting pot form will help them save money and make good use of an item …
5 Reasons That Appearance Matters
Our business was fibre. We had wool hats, angora mitts, silk scarves and turned fibre tools. Handmade and artisan designed and crafted. At a craft market you wore clothes that showed off your goods. Clean jeans or dress pants, of course. How about a hand spun, hand knit, one-of-a-kind sweater? What would be better than …
Why You Need a Business Page on Facebook
Often I go to Facebook to find other wood turners and can’t find them, because they have set their personal timeline as their Facebook business page. Unfortunately, fans cannot be accumulated on a personal timeline and to interact with my fellow woodturner, I need to send a friend request, or subscribe to their personal timeline. …
Enter the Celebration Giveway – Win a new Kindle
Turning for Profit is Celebrating I’m close to 300 fans on Facebook and my best friend at Joybilee Farm just made it to 5K fans on Facebook, too. To celebrate we planned a blog draw. In considering what would be suitable for all of our fans, I thought that the newest Kindle would be an …
5 Initial Steps from Hobby to Business
Promotion of you and your work These five steps will help you move your hobby to a business, in a way that will allow you to continue enjoying your hobby and earn some money as well. Promotion of you and your work These five steps will help you move your hobby to a business, in …
