Rustic bar stools

Know one can tell you for sure. It’s your time and talent. I would sugjest looking on line for similar stools. If you have $80 in material and 8 hours work is $300 enough or to little for you time and shop overhead?

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

Nice stools Dave, very similar to some that I make. But I use different locally available woods. I honestly think the price was a little low, on stools like that with just a stationary round or square seat I normally pull 149.00 each retail, now if I do a square seat with a back I can get 179.00-199.00 or so, If I do a square seat with a back and incorporate a swivel I can normally get 225 – 249.00 depending on what wood I use plus I have to charge more for the swivel hardware, If I use a figured wood like Mesquite or so I can normally get more, I find the stools are easier to sell as a set if you incorporate a matching pub/breakfast table or matching patio/wine bar. Stools are a good seller if you do sets in different heights, one of my best sellers is a small 12” and a 18” high stool because it is handy for alot of applications. Those I sell for 49.99 and 75.00, but the trick is to make 10-20 at a time.

Anyway good work and thanx for the post…

-- Frank, Little River/Academy, Texas , http://www.allthingsrustix.com

We have been shopping for stools exactly like this. You are VERY reasonable at $100 each!! I’ve been looking at stools no where near this nice and they are more than this.

-- Jim Sollows --- Langley BC Canada --- www.sollows.ca

Frank you are sure right about making several at a time, it takes only twice as much time to make 4 of them as it does just one. I bought a couple of the swivels at woodcraft the other day, I am going to make a couple of them with backs that swivel.

-- David South FLorida