Newest venture - Woodworking Talk

woodman42 · 10-08-2009, 03:47 PM

This is one of the projects we are currently working on.
It started out as two pub tables for the game room and turn into a great money making oppurtunity.

firehawkmph · 10-08-2009, 09:03 PM

Those are cool Woody,
How big are they and what did you do for the inset?
Mike Hawkins

woodman42 · 10-09-2009, 10:47 AM

Thanks Mike.
The round tables are 24" pub tables. The sqaure Harley table is 34".
We inlayed them with Corian Night Sky solid surface.

Leatherneck · 10-09-2009, 11:05 AM

very nice inlay work.

I'm wondering what you have in mind for bases?

John in Tennessee · 10-09-2009, 12:58 PM

I wish I had a 100th of your gift..

woodman42 · 10-09-2009, 03:26 PM

These are the legs.

Kenbo · 10-10-2009, 10:08 AM

Nice job. The talented people on this forum never cease to amaze me. You should get a lathe and turn some pint glasses now.

Ken

woodman42 · 10-10-2009, 04:46 PM

Thanks for the compliments. I already bought the glasses at the Dallas Cowboy Store.
If anybody has any ideas for inlays, I am looking for other options. Already gonna do a Texas A & M one and a Dallas Cowboy one if I can find a wood that will work.
The solid surface inlays are really cool and gives us a wide range of colors to use.

Streamwinner · 10-12-2009, 12:04 PM

Those look great.

frankp · 10-12-2009, 01:39 PM

woodman, clearly you are a fan and a true Texan, but why limit yourself to those teams? You could easily market these to all kinds of teams and fans. I'm sure if you started making any real money at it, you'd have to get licensing from the prospective owners of the logos and such, but that'd be a small price to pay, I'm sure. Well, probably not, actually, it may make your stuff cost prohibitive but it's worth looking into before discounting it completely.

All kinds of sports pubs all over the place for soccer, baseball, hockey, football, you name it, somebody would buy a table like that. Or 20.

Texas Sawduster · 10-12-2009, 03:55 PM

Where's the Texas A&M logo?

woodman42 · 10-12-2009, 07:51 PM

Frank
Thanks. We started with Texas because those were the ones that we built for my gameroom which is pretty much Cowboys, Texas A&M, Beer and Ford themes. The Harley one is for an auction at our local tavern to raise money for our anuall Make a Christmas Happen for local needy families.
We have plans to do a variety of different themes to entice folks to custom order whatever they want in one.

Texas Sawduster
The Texas A&M is one of the next ones on the list to do. Will post pics when they are completed.

woodman42 · 10-16-2009, 09:07 PM

Have our first order of ten of the Harley tables. Sweet.

woodman42 · 12-08-2009, 09:31 AM

The Harley table brought $800.00 at our M.A.C.H IV auction. (Make A Christmas Happen)
Of course it helped that the auction was held at a biker tavern.

Texas Sawduster · 12-08-2009, 12:12 PM

Nice job there Woodman.

Hendo446 · 12-09-2009, 05:53 AM

SWEET tables man! If you are still looking for inlay ideas I vote for a Marine Corps Emblem (Eagle Globe and Anchor). There are lots of current and former jar heads out there who would buy that. And I'm pretty sure there is no licensing issues involved like Frankp brought up. (good point too frank)

phinds · 12-09-2009, 07:09 AM

Woodman and Kenbo, I think you guys should get together and make a fortune. Kenbo would do 12" circular scroll saw pictures of celebrities (using fairly simple lines so it doesn't take forever) and woodman would insert them into beautiful tables and you'd put them on ebay for REALLY OUTRAGEOUS amounts of money and I'll bet you dollars to donuts each would be bought by a fan of the celebrity, then you can both retire and focus on more worthwhile woodwork.

You owe me 10% for the idea

Paul

Kenbo · 12-09-2009, 07:32 AM

That quite the idea you've got there Phinds. People will pay crazy amount of money for anything. The pet rock comes to mind.

However, I don't think that I could retire on it.

Ken

John in Tennessee · 12-09-2009, 08:53 AM

What did you use?

Gorp · 12-09-2009, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by woodman42

Have our first order of ten of the Harley tables. Sweet.

Nice work and getting paid for it is even better. If I where you I would contact Harley so thay do not come after you for using there trademark.

Again nice work but just a little advice.