PastorBob

Great advice, @Dwight Thanks!

Glad you were able to stop by. Seem a little slower on here than it was several years ago. Lots of sewing machine questions.

Very clean looking. Great job!

Thanks - Yeah, just finished creating a holster template using acrylic for a 1911 thumb break pancake holster. https://pastorbobleather.com/product/1911-holster-template-for-full-size-with-thumb-break-acrylic/ The brass stamps from Sergey are the best. Crisp, easy to use and align, especially the pattern stamps. The white is Marble slab sink cutout. Its only 18" or so in diameter. Nice looking setup!!

I don't have a clean pic, but here is part of it. It spans the back of my 6 foot work bench. Apologies for the mess. work in progress....600-800 holes drilled. lots of them.

Pretty sharp! I agree with @DieselTech that it's worth what someone is willing to pay. Unfortunately, customers set the price, either by buying an item, or passing on it. It will, no doubt, last longer than anything you can buy on TEMU, but one can get something similar from TEMU for less than $20 that may only hold up for a couple of years, then one could buy another if desired. What do your customers want and expect? What have you sold to date that your customers are clamoring for? Who is your client base? They will determine the price. Most of the items I sell are based on demand. Yes, I have made several items that are still sitting around my shop, unsold. There will always be trial and error to find out what those fickle consumers want. But now that I have a customer base built, I have a lot of repeat business on items that could be purchased anywhere. I always try to make my customers feel like they are the most important person in the world. Sometimes it means having long conversations in my shop. Not necessarily about leatherwork. Those talks may be about the grief they're experiencing from a loss of a loved one. Or it may be about their wayward kids. I view my craft as a ministry and truly build lifelong relationships with the clientele that comes through the shop. Even the classes I have with the school aged kids is about getting to know them and pray over them at the beginning of the class and spending time talking with the parents. I have found that building relationships builds trust and should they need some leatherwork, they will remember fondly our interaction and come back to me, knowing they could probably get it elsewhere cheaper...but they are willing to pay for the pleasant customer interaction.

Great work! I love those closures on the tracker sheath.

Pretty sharp!

Looking good. You are right. Hard to hide any nicks, fingernail marks for sure.

Sharp and clean work.

A couple of ways to go about it... Try to recall what you paid and price it at that point; knowing you probably paid less at full retail when you bought it than what it's currently selling for. Look up current pricing from vendors that carry the same, and drop the price by some percentage. Percentage depends on how quickly you'd like to move it, whether you add in shipping, packaging, etc.

Very Sharp!! Great job!

Welcome from SW Missouri! I would suggest a good maul or hammer. Maybe get a starter set of stamps for patterns.

Glad this got reposted. Thought mine didn't go through!