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Epoxy Dangers are very real! I feel like I’m going to the moon when I suit up to do resin stuff. Thank you for the kind compliment.
These look so professional and amazing. Do you sell them?
Thank you so much.
I don’t sell them, but that would be pretty amazing if I could find a market for them.
Orange Glasses
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Good luck to anyone breaking into Rodafina’s house!
Well, I have fantasized about this, but I thought I was nuts (I do have a problem with doubting myself.)
The responses here are very encouraging. These are just a few of my favorites, I have 25 - 30 others.
Is anyone willing to share an approximate figure for what they should sell for? I’ve thought about $25, but sometimes it feels like way too much and sometimes like not enough, so I don’t know.
Fair prices are usually calculated adding materials prices to a fair salary (hours needed x USD/per hour). That should be your base manufacturing price if you were to hire yourself. Since you are the owner of the company you should earn at least a 30% more.
So: 1.3 * (materials + working salary)
Then if you get too much demand, you increase the price and if you get too low demand you modify your product, offer personalizations, ask customers, etc. That is called a pivot.
Have fun in the journey.
A common mistake of many makers and artisans is to undercut themselves, thinking "it's just a hobby" and so I'm glad you asked the question.
There's a variety of different formulas available. I suggest seeing what they come up with, and that will give you a range to work with.
Another one I like is to blend
A) 3x cost of materials
B) cost of materials + what you consider to be the value of your work to produce an item (e.g. 1.0 hour x $15).
A is a common pricing strategy for items that don't require individual creation (e.g. postcards and stickers that you had made from a drawing you made)
B is basically the baseline, and in @Atrapa Almas' example, is a variation that also builds in a margin.
Having a margin is always good, as that provides you with the reward for selling it - basically, you get earnings for both the creation and for the selling. And you'd want to be able to give a modest discount for multiple purchases, or repeat buyers.
Where you are considering the possibility of consignment, having a higher margin is helpful, since 25-50% commission to the store is quite common, and you want to ensure that you're still getting a fair amount.
The other point I want to cover is shipping. Generally, I'd recommend actual postage+packaging costs and up to $1 more to cover incidentals. People that buy enough online get familiar with costs, and are turned off when a seller has an obviously inflated "shipping and handling."
The packaging is where you get to show some additional creativity - a thank you note or message written on the back of a business card, perhaps an organza bag or other simple but elegant packaging, and maybe some fun stickers with your logo or other art to adorn the envelope with. You want to show your pride in your creation, and for the buyer to get excited when they get it - it's not just another widget that someone got from Amazon in yet another generic brown envelope, but something you lovingly made - for them to enjoy and cherish.
@Atrapa Almas and @VictorR, I don’t know if I can afford the consultancy fees for this great advice! 
You have given me much to think about, thank you for sharing your thoughts. They are very motivating.
You have given me much to think about, thank you for sharing your thoughts. They are very motivating.
Since they are free, you probably can afford them.@Atrapa Almas and @VictorR, I don’t know if I can afford the consultancy fees for this great advice!
You have given me much to think about, thank you for sharing your thoughts. They are very motivating.
Beautifully done. I am impressed.
Do you have an etsy shop? There's a good market for such pretty pretties.
I was looking for similar on Etsy, and it seems that yours are of some of the finest craftmanship. I like yours better than most of the others. Most others just look like the resin was poured into a mould, with copious amounts of glitter. Yours look like the real deal. I am very impressed. You could make a good side income. Maybe list them with hashtags like dagger, knife, decorative sword, short sword, and athame.
https://www.etsy.com/search?q=epoxy+daggers
https://www.etsy.com/search?q=epoxy+daggers
Thank you so much. I was encouraged to go for it on etsy on this thread, but other important things have eaten up my motivation.
I keep second-guessing myself that they would be worthy, but I don’t make them for fun anymore because I have too many just lying around. I have so much fun making them. I would like to get back to it.
Also, most of them contain secret things inside the handle which can give each one a good story as to where it gets some power, or magic.
As a few pieces fall into place and with much more energy in sobriety, perhaps it is time to pair this with my part-time job and really make a go at it. I am really considering what you said.
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