I've decided to do one more thing to the new bench before calling it finished. I like a tool rack on the back side of the working slab. It will be a quick job, just a long piece of Beech with three or four spacers and a trim of the tool tray so it all fits.
My thinking for now is once that is done I will put the new Moravian bench and the French/English bench up for sale. Because the Moravian has a couple of cosmetic blemishes (nothing that affects its strength or function) I will offer it for $1600 USD FOB Tucson. Because it breaks down and will fit on a pallet shipping cost should be reasonable. The French/English bench is another story, I expect it will need to sell to someone with a truck and within driving distance of Tucson. I'm asking $2200 USD for it also FOB Tucson.
The reason for selling the benches is I need the room and I have plans to build another Moravian with a Oak base and slab TBD that is slightly larger than the new bench.
ken
Love your reasoning: The reason im selling these bench is to make room to build more :-)
ReplyDeleteMust remember that one, have not tried it yet.
Bob, on a friend WIFI
Bob,
DeleteSo far it is working. I'm not sure how long MsBubba will buy in but as long as she does that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
It is good to have friends,
ken
If you get back the money you have put in, what is the problem (if there is not too much backlog of honey-do)?
ReplyDeleteBut even if you don't get back the full value of the lumber/hardware, in the mean time you have had fun. Now what is the value of fun? How much would you pay to look at a 2 hours movie?
But then, on top of that, there is
- the extra satisfaction of having done something with your own hands or (inclusive or) to have learn something new.
- the de-stressing aspect?
- ...
How to value that?
Sylvain
Sylvain,
DeleteYou are correct, I'm not trying to make money. I enjoy building benches but it doesn't take long to run out of room to build any more. My best guess is I have somewhere north of $1000 USDs in the Moravian and the French/English around $2000 USDs. This isn't about making money I need the room and I would like to recover the cost so I can do it all over one more time.
ken
Free shipping if the order is over $40?
ReplyDeleteSteve,
DeleteIt works for Lee Valley, maybe it would work for me :-).
ken