I think things may be turning out for the better. One of the people I do chainmaille with picked up the paperwork to get us a booth (A REAL ONE!) at the local Saturday market; I may soon be moving in with my best IRL friend; and things seem to be working out for /once/. I'm in the process of figuring out some prices for chain work, which is turning out to be more difficult than I expected. Anyone have any ideas? I know I want to do a per-inch cost, as well as a total-rings cost, then per-hour for the work itself. (All three are relatively low, so total cost doesn't end up too high.) It also needs to be dependent on material used, as well as the size of ring.
Like I said. More difficult than I expected. I was thinking I'd base my prices on something like copper. It's the easiest to work with, (also easiest to mar) and pretty cheap. Then from there I'd do percentage increases based on how expensive/hard to work the material is. So say for me, stainless steel is two or three times as hard to work as copper, but is cheaper by far, so it'd be twice as expensive or so. Aluminum is around the same price as copper, and slightly harder, so 1.5 times or so. Something /like/ that. These aren't finalized numbers, o'course.
Anyone has any ideas, go ahead and comment on this, please.