Grizzly Coffee Table

[elkriverfab]

Here are a couple of pictures with the table painted.

Just wanted to share

[plasmajoe]

Nice detail on your work Elkriver, nice to see great craftmanship. I really enjoyed viewing these pictures. You should fetch a real good dollar on this piece, personally I would not let it go for less than $900.00.

Plasma Joe

[trucks1948]

Looks great ,i sure wish our grass was green like that too

[WSS]

The picture of the table on its side really shows the detail. Your cutter had to walk a tight rope for sure. The thin parts through the trees are impressive.

WSS

[elkriverfab]

Looks great ,i sure wish our grass was green like that too

I wish it was more green.
We have a little green here and there but what you are looking at was last falls grass I didn't mow yet (dry).

my cows are so hungry they are trying to get at all the small green stuff coming up.

They even broke into the yard last night to get at some hay bales I was stashing for them when it gets real bad.

I guess it was bad enough for them to get it

What ever was green will probably freeze tonight......It's going to get down to 17 degrees.

I better go get them some more hay before I find them in the refrigerator

Thank you for the complements on the table.

[Bigrhamr]

Really nice work!
Just a comment on tables and glass tops, in the other thread you mentioned having the customer buy the glass themselves. I used to make quite a few tables and take them to shows. Since hauling the glass around was a huge pain I tried what you are planning but had limited success selling them, at least for a good price. Sometimes things have to be really clear and easy for the customers, I would get people asking what good it was since stuff would fall through the openings. Explain to them or even put a sign on it and they would get that deer in the headlights look, not knowing how much a top would cost or where/how to get it. I ended up buying tops, marking the table up by double what the glass cost and selling 5 times as many. Just my experience, your mileage may vary.

[elkriverfab]

Bigrhamr,

I agree with you all the way.

For some reason people just don't get it.
I too am always having to explain the simplest things to my customers.......To the point it is a little scary at times.

Some people are as sharp as a tack and others are as sharp as a tennis ball.

I can have one tell me the tables are beautiful and the next ask me how do things keep from falling through too

I have also had them tell me "that table would make a nice table"??

I ask them, what do you think that is by the way?

Once I get an idea of whats in their head, I decide if I want to fool with them as a customer or just move on.
I have found the ones who cant think for themselves turn out to be more trouble then their worth.

That old saying rings true.......common sense is not so common........

I don't want to sound nasty but there are a lot of people out there that I wonder how they manage to get through a day without nature taking over

As far as the glass, yes you are right. If you have it made and sell it with the table it is better.
I just started running across people telling me the glass was too expensive, to thin, to thick.

So I thought I would start letting them deal with it.
But they struggle with it.

[AnotherDano]

It's a trueism in all facets of the business. Ya gotta wonder how these people got out of the house with their shoes on.

Here in Wyoming, the Steamboat Bucking Horse is the big thing. So, I make a bunch of them and they are pretty good loss-leaders. At first, I had a little hole for them to be hung by a nail on the wall. Then folks started whining that they didn't want a hole. So I started putting magnetic strips on the back to hold them to a refrigerator. Then they whined about not having a hole.

Finally, I eliminated the hole and the magnets. People ask "what do you do with them?". Anyone lacking enough imagination to figure that out doesn't need one!

And you can't know how sick I am of people saying they could probably get the same thing at Walmart, cheaper.