Subject: Re: pricing

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 11:58:02 -0500

In a message dated 96-03-22 01:42:43 EST, you write:

>
>     I don't mean to open a whole can of worms that will result in a lot of
>mail many won't be interested in, however a brief discussion on pricing may
>be something that a large number of us may be interested in.
>     keeping it simple, and speaking in terms of full time blacksmithing &
>metalworking, those of us who own our own shops, not as a hobby but as our
>vocation and hopefully also our avocation;
>     what do you charge for shop time?

Please open this can of worms! That's what this forum is all about (my
opinion).  This info can be incredibly useful to someone like me who is in
the process of starting up a shop.

This thread went around on the ArtMetal list a month or so ago, and I saved a
piece or two.  One of the best (from Chris Ray) gave a pretty detailed method
of figuring shop time and how to bid out work using it.  I could bounce it
back to this group if folks here want it.

Lee Catlow
ClearWater Forge

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From: Robert Silverman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 18:22:01 -0500 (EST)

Please send article on pricing by Chris Ray. 

Thanks,

Tara