Iggy's Assembly Line Is Up and Running

[Iguanadon]

After taking about 6 weeks off from cutting, I'm back at it with sawdust flying.  

 

As a reminder, I have a day job, fortunately I work from home so I'm able to sneak into the workshop during the day when things are quiet.

 

I had originally planned in my mind that I'd stock up over the winter by making 200 puzzles, 10 each of my top 20 sellers last year.

 

My first event is April 29 and it's potentially a big one so I want to have extras on hand, plus another big event coming up May 20... So... I set myself a goal and in my usual neurotic way, I had to establish a rule for myself.  Rule being that I have to make 5 puzzles a day for the next 10 weeks giving me about 300 by my April event (assuming I miss a few days due to business travel)

 

Week 1 and 2 complete and goal achieved easily.  On Saturday I lay out the patterns on 5ft pieces of poplar and cut their outline out and stack them up next to my saw.  I then cut 5 of them into their pieces every day which takes me less than an hour and a half.  I oil them in batches of 20, letting them sit and dry for the full 4 days til the next batch of 20 are ready.

 

Now I just need to sell them all.  :-)

 

Spring will be here before ya know it!  Be sure you're ready.

 

Iggy

 

 

[Phantom Scroller]

Great work Iggy I like the effort you put in a lot of cutting. lovely puzzles.     Roly

[hawkeye10]

I see your wide open.    Just don't let up.

[Scrolling Steve]

Keep up the good work, Iggy !

[Dan]

Good luck with your shows! 

[WayneMahler]

Nice puzzles. Good luck with your shows.

[amazingkevin]

After taking about 6 weeks off from cutting, I'm back at it with sawdust flying.  

 

As a reminder, I have a day job, fortunately I work from home so I'm able to sneak into the workshop during the day when things are quiet.

 

I had originally planned in my mind that I'd stock up over the winter by making 200 puzzles, 10 each of my top 20 sellers last year.

 

My first event is April 29 and it's potentially a big one so I want to have extras on hand, plus another big event coming up May 20... So... I set myself a goal and in my usual neurotic way, I had to establish a rule for myself.  Rule being that I have to make 5 puzzles a day for the next 10 weeks giving me about 300 by my April event (assuming I miss a few days due to business travel)

 

Week 1 and 2 complete and goal achieved easily.  On Saturday I lay out the patterns on 5ft pieces of poplar and cut their outline out and stack them up next to my saw.  I then cut 5 of them into their pieces every day which takes me less than an hour and a half.  I oil them in batches of 20, letting them sit and dry for the full 4 days til the next batch of 20 are ready.

 

Now I just need to sell them all.  :-)

 

Spring will be here before ya know it!  Be sure you're ready.

 

Iggy

Your a goal setter,And reap profits for your work.Can't wait to see them all one by one.I'll just bet the folks where you sell will be anticipating your return with new unseen merchandise .Shoppers bring your carts!

[wombatie]

Keep up the great work Iggy.

 

Marg

[lawson56]

Sounds like you've got it all laid out just perfect.Master Plan.Great Luck in your upcoming shows.  

[David Lehner]

Good Luck with the shows

[daveww1]

great job, good luck with your upcoming shows

[ike]

I am planning on a good year with puzzles this year. My nativity scenes sales was down last year , so in the middle of the year (3 sales) I made some puzzles and half of my sales were puzzles. This year I will have a bigger selection of puzzles along with some nativity scenes. good luck with your sales,

IKE

[banderson]

Great job, Hope you sell them all.

[stevan]

All I can say is WOW. That is a tremendous volume of work.

[jbrowning]

Hey Iggy, it looks like you have a good plan going there. Keep up the good work.

 

Jim