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Post by stardiamond on Nov 15, 2019 15:46:02 GMT -5
I was taking pictures of 6 cabs to list on Etsy. My wife said that she would be embarrassed if I listed this cab: I had some similar material and although there isn't much going on it's not just one color. I thought I would list it a lower price; $10-15 to see if there was any interest before working on any more. Be brutally honest; is this to boring to even try to sell?
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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 15, 2019 16:02:42 GMT -5
Nope, one man's trash is another man's treasure. I don't think it's so bad.
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Post by Pat on Nov 15, 2019 16:14:15 GMT -5
I agree with your wife, and with Tela. Your avatar cab is lovely!
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Post by miket on Nov 15, 2019 16:18:58 GMT -5
I like it.
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Post by stardiamond on Nov 15, 2019 16:32:18 GMT -5
I agree with your wife, and with Tela. Your avatar cab is lovely! My avatar cab is very unusual. Blue Mountain is one of my favorite materials. Generally, the scene on the slab is too large to fit on a cab and the best I can do is a partial scene with partial orbs. The slab this cab was made from had a cab size scene.
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Post by stardiamond on Nov 15, 2019 16:45:21 GMT -5
I made cabs for 15 years for the enjoyment of making not to sell. I have or 1,000 cabs that I will never list. I could sell them in bulk but that is something I am not interested in doing now. As long as I can sell enough to buy nice material and get any supplies want, I'm happy.
I haven't figured out what sells other than one factor is price and another factor is uniqueness. .
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julieooly
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Post by julieooly on Nov 15, 2019 17:06:04 GMT -5
You never really know what people will want. I say sell it.
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Post by stonemon on Nov 15, 2019 19:09:46 GMT -5
I have sold some pretty ho-hum cabs. People buy them that want a canvas for their tree of life or other wire wrap that allows the wire work to stand out and not be dominated by the stone.
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Post by stardiamond on Nov 15, 2019 19:30:57 GMT -5
I have sold some pretty ho-hum cabs. People buy them that want a canvas for their tree of life or other wire wrap that allows the wire work to stand out and not be dominated by the stone. I had exactly the same idea. The person wants the setting to stand out. I've seen some work where there are smaller stones surrounding the larger stone and the larger stone shouldn't dominate.
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Post by pauls on Nov 16, 2019 0:13:04 GMT -5
You never can tell what someone else thinks is beautiful. I have instructed cabbing for many years and some of the things I wouldn't touch they enthusiastically cut, often it does turn out nice, not my cup of tea but it's nice and they are over the moon.
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Post by stardiamond on Nov 17, 2019 18:30:17 GMT -5
I sold it for $12. Since it's a hobby for me, converting lesser material to cabs and selling cabs to buy better material works for me. The person who bought it was interested in blue Owyhee to make jewelry. I won't make a cab unless I thought someone would buy it. That was my philosophy for the 15 years I made cabs before trying to sell them.
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stonemon
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Post by stonemon on Nov 17, 2019 22:49:20 GMT -5
Good on you for giving someone a chance at it. There is no reason each stone has to be a collector piece or an elite. Nature is beautiful in many of her forms and we as lapidary folk get to shine up not only the cream but some milk too. Thanks!
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