Last week, I was on a crash course to finish this batch of trivets. The inventory was too low for our big event this weekend, the California Strawberry Festival.
So, one crash later, I was done with 23 new trivets. I put them in a prominent position in the booth’s outside corner, on a temporary pile of containers and in a crate … which invites people to flip through the pieces as they look for the right ones.
I learned two things:
- Many people have no idea what a trivet is. The word doesn’t translate into Spanish, I’m told, so a large number of people with a Mexican or Central American heritage have no idea what the sign means when it says “Trivets.” Of course, there’s a large number of people that are Americanized that have no clue, as well. “Trivets.” A mystery. Who knew?
- People love flipping through a crate of trivets. Oh so many people did that on Saturday.
And that’s a good thing. Some of the flippers even bought one or two.
The flipping continues today at the California Strawberry Festival in Oxnard. Come and flip some, if you please. I would truly appreciate it: load out starts at 6:30pm, and I hope I have a lighter load to come home.
And that, of course, will begat a new crash course for next week … a problem for another day.
Do you CNC the grooves or router template? Nice work either way!
CNC. I cannot imagine the work to do these with a handheld!
I was a machinist for 20 years, a good jig makes things easy, but at 8.5″ square, it would be difficult designing an easy jig. I’m not quite ready for the CNC commitment.