People have made this mistake before, Mike. You can't price beginning pipes based on the number of hours you took to make them. You come out with an ok looking pipe and try to sell it for $1500-6500? It just won't work.Mike Messer wrote:This is gonna blow some minds... I keep detailed notes with time spent on each detail of each pipe I make, still it's a little difficult to extract the time spent on a particular component, but as best I can tell, I spent about 18 hours making the stem on my "Tilted Pot" pipe, and the overall hands-on time was 89 hours, so that would be about 20/80, or 20% on the stem, and 80% on everything else.
The amout of time spent is also why my prices are so high. $1500 retail / 2 = $750 wholsale, minus about $60 materials = $690 / 89 hours = $7.75 per hour for labor and overhead.
Customers do not care how long it takes you to make a pipe. They care about how it looks and the price.
Efficiency is key.
Rad "Thought I'd give it one more try" Davis