I had a Customer that was selling little bottles of oils that were just displayed in rows on the table and was having to put them out one at a time and a;l the time straightening out rows etc and wanted to set them out at once, have them stay put, and be able to read the labels.
This is a proof of concept that I designed totally in Inkscape without boxes.py or similar program. the bottles are 1 inch and each row is 1.03" wide. Fingers are 0.25 O.C. there is a middle slot to slide in a handle so a stack of several can be lifted and carried about safe;y together. The fingers make it very strong.
I would appreciate Ideas about pricing or design etc that anyone might have.
Thats great, I love functional stuff. Whenever I do pieces like this I like to cut a clean piece (usually veneer) and glue it to the front to cover the joints.
I think the joints look kind of cool. Iâve been digging the tiny finger joints ever since @evansd2 started throwing them around.
I really like the design, @rbtdanforth â curious what holds the handle in place when you slide it in? Also, it kinda looks like it could be stackable with the handle in place â is that where youâre headed with it? (EDIT: Oh, duh, you said theyâre stackable â havenât had my coffee yet!)
Iâm lousy at pricing so Iâll leave that to others, but with the popularity of essential oils right now, I bet you wouldnât have any trouble selling them!
the top and bottom of the slot goes all the way across but the slot itself stops a quarter inch from each end so a handle that was a full width (or had horizontal parts attached ) would hold up nicely.
A lot of the essential oils are sold as MLMs-- multi-level marketing or pyramid schemes. Might want payment up front.
Iâd suggest having a poke about Etsy and see what folks are charging for such things. Then charge more because your design combines attractiveness with excellent functionality; the Etsy stuff tends to lean to decorative with little consideration for practicality.
I would second the veneer the front it would simplify the appearance. Also concider adding a pattern of sorts to the side and Bottom this will give more light also - dust will drop through the recess and not accumulate. Maybe the patten can be âwords or Lettersâ
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Itâs a great design. I think when you get it in some good material it will be really nice. I agree with the veneer or something to knock down the contrasting fingers poking through. The bottles might get lost in that pattern.
Depending on the material, I would figure starting at $40 but I donât do retail well.
Depending upon your material, I think $40 is a good price. One of my wholesalers sell their ACRYLIC pen holders for about that and they arenât even as sturdy as your design looks!
I agree on the veneer. I think itâs too busy for what itâs meant to do.
As for pricing, definitely start by calculating cost of materials and time spent cutting/assembling (time X hourly rate). If itâs a one-off, include the design costs. The rule of thumb is to double that # and charge that if youâre selling directly. Obviously the market canât always bear what something is truly worth, so it might be worthwhile to lower the price a bit to build a relationship with a customer who might bring more business down the line.
I have considered sanding them as they are expressed by about a mm but I did that from some scrap and do not prefer it myself
Or as some have said âWhat you cannot hideâŚFlaunt!â⌠like all the dividers made of clear acrylic and sequential color changing LEDS at the other end. You might not notice the bottles first, but you will come from a long way off to look!
Looking on Etsy, racks for that number of bottles start at $100.00 and considering that there are three sheets of material in each, and aligning the fingers just to put it together is more than a little tricky, to say nothing of getting it right in the design I am thinking in those terms. Perhaps just glued with no fingers would be $40 but even then that would barely cover many possible materials, and not cover many others.
If in doubt, try ( [cost of materials] x 10), and see if that works for you.
Itâs also a good formula to run alongside any other method you have, and if it give a similar result, it will give you more confidence in the method you do use.
