The Pfeiffers on fri 18 sep 09
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We did the before and after and found it well worth the time. Showed us the
cost of the glaze to be less than $1.00 for most any pot we make. Maybe
$2.00 for a very big bowl. This gave us a base to charge others who use our
glazes. The real cost in home make glaze is in your time not what is in the
bucket. When it comes to setting a price for selling glaze we come up with
about the same as any commercial glaze.
I am glad we do make our own as we have learned a lot and have a glaze that
work well for us and we know how to fix any glaze in the future.
Dan & Laurel
<<to figure how much glaze is on a pots? >>>
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Bill Merrill on fri 18 sep 09
Wouldn't it be more productive to make more pots than sit around trying
to figure how much glaze is on a pots? =3D20
Neal on sun 20 sep 09
I took the 15 minutes to figure out the cost of making
a 5 kg batch of one of my glazes. It's $11.51. I don't
need to worry about working out how many pots that amount
will glaze because it's a large number. The cost of the
glaze per pot becomes negligible--less than 10 cents.
On larger pots, it may be a little more. But I don't
consider the glaze cost or even the clay cost when deciding
what to price my pots.
A couple of potters who participated in Clay Fest through
the Triangle Potters Guild were having a pricing discussion
yesterday. And one of them was very scientific in her
calculations. The other one and I were more seat of the
pants. We know how much clay we're using and how much that
costs, but it's not that big a deal.
For instance, I am selling my ikebana vases for more now
and making them in three sizes. To be honest, there's not
much more work in making the medium size one rather than a
small one--and cost for the amount of clay isn't much
either: 19 cents for a small vase and 26 cents for the
medium one. And yet some people are willing to pay $3 more
for the medium one.
Neal W. O'Briant
Raleigh, N.C.
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