Regret/Desire
Mar. 27th, 2009 04:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jmfargoEvery since I dissolved LARP USA, I've both regretted it and been relieved.
Relieved because I don't have to worry about taxes, or about whether or not I have the money to fulfill the orders that are coming in while still being able to pay myself and the credit card company.
Regret? Well. There's lots of that.
For example, if LARP USA were still alive I would JUMP at the chance to buy this. It's an item that I was always looking to purchase while running the business, a tool that helps make making chain mail rings super easy. I still want it, but have no use for it. In my "warehouse" now there is probably one hundred pounds of wire and rings, never sold, never used. Yet a part of me says "If you make them, they'll be purchased."
Horse-crap. They were the worst-selling items on my site. Why do I keep wanting to make more? I have no idea.
But really, I miss having my own business. I'm going to be looking into reopening it eventually, but not for a long while, once my financial situation is stable. Once I figure out how to work everything together so that I can work, go to school, and run a business while at the same time not having to worry about where the cash for the business is coming from, that's when I'll start it up again.
In the mean time, I still wish I had the Jump Ring Maker, just because.
Relieved because I don't have to worry about taxes, or about whether or not I have the money to fulfill the orders that are coming in while still being able to pay myself and the credit card company.
Regret? Well. There's lots of that.
For example, if LARP USA were still alive I would JUMP at the chance to buy this. It's an item that I was always looking to purchase while running the business, a tool that helps make making chain mail rings super easy. I still want it, but have no use for it. In my "warehouse" now there is probably one hundred pounds of wire and rings, never sold, never used. Yet a part of me says "If you make them, they'll be purchased."
Horse-crap. They were the worst-selling items on my site. Why do I keep wanting to make more? I have no idea.
But really, I miss having my own business. I'm going to be looking into reopening it eventually, but not for a long while, once my financial situation is stable. Once I figure out how to work everything together so that I can work, go to school, and run a business while at the same time not having to worry about where the cash for the business is coming from, that's when I'll start it up again.
In the mean time, I still wish I had the Jump Ring Maker, just because.
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Date: 2009-03-27 09:30 pm (UTC)-tt
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Date: 2009-03-28 12:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-27 09:31 pm (UTC)You shouldn't. I doubt it's any better than any of the other "professional ring making" tools I've seen over the years. There are two problems with them, as a whole. The first is that if you use a rotary saw to cut your rings, the action of the saw tends to grab the rings and launch them across the room as they're being cut, which warps the rings somewhat and is just dangerous as hell. The second is that rings that are cut with a rotary saw instead of a crushing blade (like wire cutters) have a gap in them the witch of the saw blade. You have to push that closed when you weave the rings closed, which doesn't sound like a big deal, but it produces slightly-warped rings, and if you make an entire piece from slightly-warped rings, it doesn't flow like chainmail should just feels wrong to wear.
Out of curiosity, what gauge wire and what diameter of rings did you use when you wove? I've got a pair of tupperware containers on the bookshelf behind me that are full of a project I've been working on off and on for four years. 16 gauge galvanized steel rings with a 5/16 diameter. I've got roughly 8 pounds of open rings and a similar amount of closed rings, all cut by hand, plus 9 springs of uncut wire about 24 inches long each. One of these days, I'll invest more than an hour at a time into it and get this project done.
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Date: 2009-03-28 12:00 am (UTC)