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4 Steps for Easier and Faster Wood Turning Production Runs

A little preparation will give you great benefits in your wood turning. These four steps will help you out. In a production run you need a source of wood and a breakdown of the specific processes of the product being turned. Each step of the project gives you a chance to increase your effectiveness and …

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A Wood Turning Project: Honey Dipper

Inventory Project – Honey Dipper A Honey Dipper is a sweet and easy product to have in your inventory.  They lift liquid honey out of jars and let you drizzle the honey into your tea or on your toast.  With no extra hardware and no precision turning required, honey dippers are a great addition to …

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Sales Receipt – What to Record

You have just sold three bowls and a wine bottle stopper. Having wrapped each item carefully you are now looking at a blank sales receipt and thinking… What information do you need to record on your sales? I found this a challenging question and I came up with a few surprising answers. 6 Pieces of …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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.  …

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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 …

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Wholesale or Not Wholesale That is the Question.

  At some point you will be approached to sell your work wholesale.  It will usually be applied to your lower priced items, the price value will be 50% or half of retail, and the person is going to want large quantities of your work.  For this post I will use my wine bottle toppers …

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Scoop turned from Lodgepole Pine

The secrets of the Northern woods — pinus species

Local Trees for Wood Turning – Pine (Pinus sp.) Living in the southern interior of B.C. I am surrounded by Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta) trees.  With two needles in a bunch and a narrow straight tree they are easy to recognize.  Pine is often overlooked for fine wood working or wood turning but it has …

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hand carved lucet and yarn

Artisan Craft: Finding a balance with mass production

Balancing the need for repeat production with artisan aesthetics Tupperware is famous for its storage utility, and its ubiquitous presence in every home.  Tupperware is cheap, easy to make, convenient to use, toxic, and stack-able.  A wooden bowl reflects character and charm.  It is a joy to use and to look at.  There is the …

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7 Mistakes that Kill Sales at the Show

Another season of Christmas Fairs is over.  Did you go?  Were you selling?  Craft shows are a great opportunity to connect with customers.  It is a thrill to see the determined stride of a familiar face that recognizes your booth and is incoming for a purchase.  It is easy to do the same thing year …

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Welcome to the Turning For Profit Community! I'm Robin. Turning for Profit is about helping you find hope and joy in your woodturning hobby. It's about projects that fill your inventory and inspire your creativity. It's business help to get you set up and making a profit quickly. If you've always wanted to work from home playing with wood, let me help you realize your dream of Turning for Profit. Read More…

Help for Beginner Woodturners

Learn to use 5 different wood turning tools, with confidence, while you turn 7 projects, building your wood turning skills sequentially.  Includes tips and ideas for marketing your wood turning, when you are ready to move forward.


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You don’t have to be good to start.  You just have to START to be good. — Joe Sabah

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7 Gifts for Men Made on the Lathe

7 Gifts for Men Made on the Lathe
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Christmas Ornaments: Build Your Inventory Fast

Christmas Ornaments: Build Your Inventory Fast
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Niddy Noddy – A Woodturning Project

Niddy Noddy – A Woodturning Project
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