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Re: Other: wooden kayak buidling business------Web
By:LeeG------WebKitFormBoundary01T2+npTVJHNgr7P
Date: 9/12/2009, 11:50 am

not really.

I could see it being an option if you already have an existing customer base buying $10,000 luxery items like fine furniture or art and you included a fine strip boat in your catalog but trying to find customers of $4000-$6000 wood kayaks as your sole customer is not likely without spending a LOT of effort marketing. Making the kayak is easy, finding the customers is hard. This is a wild guess but there's probably more $6000 pieces of art and furniture being bought than kayaks.
In order to establish your work as worth that high price it has to be exceptional. People like Joe Greenley do exceptional work. I've seen a few folks attempt to sell wood kayaks as a going concern and the work wasn't exceptional. If your work is exceptional I'd suggest marketing it through venues that feature fine art.
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Other: wooden kayak buidling business
WONG -- 9/10/2009, 2:37 am
Re: Other: wooden kayak buidling business
Paul G. Jacobson -- 9/14/2009, 7:16 pm
Re: Other: wooden kayak buidling business------Web
LeeG------WebKitFormBoundary01T2+npTVJHNgr7P -- 9/12/2009, 11:50 am
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JEM -- 9/10/2009, 8:27 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/10/2009, 10:10 am
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Robert N Pruden -- 9/10/2009, 9:51 pm
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vk1nf -- 9/10/2009, 8:21 am