orangeman Posted March 14, 2020 Report Share Posted March 14, 2020 I've been thinking about making name trains as Steve Good has a free pattern for same. Now here is the dilemma : If I wanted to sell 20 name trains at a craft show, how many of each letter should I take? Below pic is from Steve's website: .http://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/2010/05/alphabet-train-scroll-saw-pattern-all.html bb Dave Monk, OCtoolguy and scrollingforsanity 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teachnlearn Posted March 14, 2020 Report Share Posted March 14, 2020 Should be able to get an idea from this. RJF http://letterfrequency.org/ orangeman, scrollingforsanity and OCtoolguy 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangeman Posted March 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2020 2 hours ago, teachnlearn said: Should be able to get an idea from this. RJF http://letterfrequency.org/ Wow! Thanks for sending. The "e's" have it by a mile! bb OCtoolguy and scrollingforsanity 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted March 14, 2020 Report Share Posted March 14, 2020 1 hour ago, orangeman said: Wow! Thanks for sending. The "e's" have it by a mile! bb I learned that a long time ago when learning the secrets to coding/decoding things. "E" is the most frequent letter used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teachnlearn Posted March 14, 2020 Report Share Posted March 14, 2020 (edited) I've thought of changing my name to QZZXV. Should kill the spam and phone calls. The Q, Z X and V are silent. RJF Edited March 14, 2020 by teachnlearn scrollingforsanity, OCtoolguy, puzzleman and 1 other 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrappile Posted March 14, 2020 Report Share Posted March 14, 2020 If your work sells like my work,,,, one would be more than sufficient. puzzleman, scrollingforsanity, meflick and 1 other 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgman Posted March 15, 2020 Report Share Posted March 15, 2020 If I were selling these, I would take orders and make them as needed. meflick, scrollingforsanity, OCtoolguy and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangeman Posted March 15, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2020 11 minutes ago, dgman said: If I were selling these, I would take orders and make them as needed. Excellent idea! My wife said the same thing. However, shipping would be an extra $7.75 via USPS priority mail. I was thinking of charging $5-6 per piece. Not sure if folks would buy when they had to pay for shipping too. Whatya think? bb OCtoolguy, amazingkevin and scrollingforsanity 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgman Posted March 15, 2020 Report Share Posted March 15, 2020 Just now, orangeman said: Excellent idea! My wife said the same thing. However, shipping would be an extra $7.75 via USPS priority mail. I was thinking of charging $5-6 per piece. Not sure if folks would buy when they had to pay for shipping too. Whatya think? bb Actually, I wouldn’t sell these because of the need to supply all the letters needed by the customer. The same reason I won’t sell the popular dog breed puzzles. If you sell a couple of the dog puzzles then every other person wants their breed, then pretty soon you will need all the breeds in your stock. If you are certain you want to sell the letter trains, then you will need to supply all the letters in the alphabet. scrollingforsanity, OCtoolguy and amazingkevin 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazingkevin Posted March 16, 2020 Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 Now that I thought about it, If you put Merry Christmas or some other holiday would fill the bill as to how many letters you'll need. Other than that you need to do one line orders or word of mouth . This is just like how many pet portraits do you do to cover all bases! puzzleman, OCtoolguy and MrsN 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsN Posted March 16, 2020 Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 I like kevin's idea. take them to the show as a particular word/phrase for sale and then offer orders on custom trains. OCtoolguy and puzzleman 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ike Posted March 16, 2020 Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 NO MATTER HOW MAHY YOU MAKE IDT WONNN'T BE ENOUGH, MAKE A SAMPLE AND TAKE ORDERS. IKE OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puzzleman Posted March 16, 2020 Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 54 minutes ago, ike said: NO MATTER HOW MAHY YOU MAKE IDT WONNN'T BE ENOUGH, MAKE A SAMPLE AND TAKE ORDERS. IKE gotcha! I posted the original note. computer crashed and could not recover password. was orangeman - now puzzleman bb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted March 16, 2020 Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 6 hours ago, puzzleman said: gotcha! I posted the original note. computer crashed and could not recover password. was orangeman - now puzzleman bb Buy the program Roboform. It keeps all your logins and bookmarks. I've been using it for about 15 years and it is great. My wife has it on her computer too. Even if your computer crashes/burns or is lost in a hurricane, all you have to remember is your initial login i.d. and password. One thing to remember. Once you set it up, you never have to do it again. If I'm not mistaken, it's about $20 a year for total peace of mind. puzzleman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puzzleman Posted March 16, 2020 Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 1 hour ago, octoolguy said: Buy the program Roboform. It keeps all your logins and bookmarks. I've been using it for about 15 years and it is great. My wife has it on her computer too. Even if your computer crashes/burns or is lost in a hurricane, all you have to remember is your initial login i.d. and password. One thing to remember. Once you set it up, you never have to do it again. If I'm not mistaken, it's about $20 a year for total peace of mind. Thank you very large! I would have paid a lot more today! And at my age every hour counts before the grim reaper appears. bb OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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