Brilliant money making idea

[Bob Eustace]

Reckon most of us could make one of these every 10 minutes finished! I was totally gob smacked at the price. Great use of all those scrap bits we all have but cant bring ourselves to burn! Think there are only two sizes in iPhones. You can see how it goes together in the side view. Clever! Made in the USA tooooooooo!

http://www.woodcraft.com/search2/search.aspx?query=woody%20cases&refcode=13IN07NL&utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+-+Real+Wood+iPhone+Caes+from+Woody&utm_content=Plus+More+%288-16%29&utm_campaign=08%2F16%2F2013

[larry_r]

Color me skeptical.

Says handmade and in the USA, not really believing that.

[genek]

If I remember correctly there was a person on shop bot that was working on this and wanted some help developing it. I think he placed a request on the site where you get backers. The new rule on hand made is if there is at least one third of the product processed by hand it is classified had made.

with products made with a cnc. you have to enter the drawing or draw it. you have to load the wood onto the machine, you have to sand the product and finish it.. other than the machine cutting the wood and scooping out the wood it is hand processed and can be legally called hand made.

hand made has gone through several changes and by the time our great-grand children are making items it will go through several more changes and revising of what hand made is. learn to go with the flow... and learn that your work is still classified as hand made.

[Brady Watson]

Retail is $59. My guess is the guy that actually made it collects less than $20 each. That price includes material, and all overhead such as the electric bill, wages, equipment maintenance, insurance(s) etc. He isn't getting rich off of these, I am sure.

Most retailers want to pay 25-35% of retail, with very few generous ones paying 50% (called keystoning) of retail. They have to market the product, deal with customer service, inventory etc. Plus, they need to be able to drop the price for sales etc while still making a profit.

-B

[genek]

I personelly set my wholesale price at what I have to have. I do not let a company tell me what price they will pay. I turned down a contract with Cracker b-----. I offered my product at my normal wholesale price with price breaks at certain levels. they wanted me to let them buy at half my wholesale price, and informed me that they could take it off shore and have it made cheaper than that. I informed them that I had the patent and copy right on my product and if i even saw anything that looked like it in their stores my attorney would be contacting them. I could have made money at the price they wanted, however anything going wrong would have turned it into a loss, Never drop your price to the point you are just making it, or at break even prices. If they do not want my prices I have other customers that will pay my prices.

[gerryv]

Speaking personally only, I think it would be more appropriate to say hand-made if over 50% and hand finished if over something like 20-30%.

[khaos]

There IS a botter who makes these. I saw them at the Mid Atlantic camp in the last year or two. He also makes a base. Nice biz. There are zillions of these devices out there. :eek:

-Joe

[Mayo]

I can't tell from the photos how the phone stays inside the wood case.
It doesn't wrap around both front and back like the plastic cases do.
They look nicely made though.

[Bob Eustace]

Mayo there is a sort of wavy finger joint if you zoom in on the middle of the pic. It might have a tiny ledge and push together but its probably held in with velcro dots in the back on even just a bit of double sided tape. Reckon these would go well with the wooden bow ties. We are making wooden wedding invitations at present (not as easy as you would think if the client wants tooooooo much tiny print!) and wood seems to be the flavour of the month at present.

[knight_toolworks]

I have worked with guys who make them and ipad covers. they are a lot of work and take a lot of setup and jigs and work to make a lot of prototyping too. just the time it takes to work out the details and learn out to do it is amazing. then apple goes and changes it.

[changrudy]

Hi all,

I've been working on this product for over 6months now and must say it does have its hurdles. Making it efficiently is the key. my difference from the regular crowd...only .075" thick and i use some nice exotic woods like morado, padouk, and purpleheart. But my favorite is wenge, simply classy look.

just started listing it on etsy, hopefully full website eventually. making is one thing, selling is a whole different ballgame.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/153976984/wooden-iphone-case?ref=cat_gallery_2

Rudy
p.s. sorry for being a troll on the forum but i do come visit often!

[scottp55]

Rudy, I don't want to get off topic, but I've considered Etsy for a product and was wondering about your experience? scottkport@gmail.com

[genek]

Almost any product made with the cnc is well over 50% of hands on the product, you have design and set up. processing the wood, loading the wood, sanding the wood (which can be the longest process of all) finishing the wood. Why worry about what someone calls hand made. What the letter of the law allows is good enough for me... the wood phone covers are classified as hand made... All of the wooden products that I make is classified hand made. The man that made those spent more time sanding and finishing than was spent on the cnc. I got to see one of the phone covers at our local woodcraft store, looks like I will have to up grade my phone, (had mine for 6 years)

[VanIslanddan]

Apple makes all of the details and drawings available for iPhones and iPads.
https://developer.apple.com/resources/cases/
I own to many apple products but have not had the time to make my own cases yet.

[normand]

Great product there Rudy . Hope you sell a lot of them . See you soon.

I troll to

[Bob Eustace]

Bad news Rudy. Amazon are now shipping these as "shipped from the the USA" but the price is an horrific $6.75.