The Dye A Day Thread! (Part II)

[drkstr]

Great work Rob......hmmmmm Michonne, my favorite character from The Walking Dead

 

[MrFixIt]

Possibly the best first 3 posts ever. Love your work man.

:clap: :hfive:

 

[MitchIL]

That Chief dye is really nice Rob

 

[DyeingToPlay]

Nice work, Rob :clap:

 

[Birds]

Still new to this game, but working on it....
Champion Max X-Out. iDye Poly. Too pink not to go with the panther.

 

[StoneWallKid]

Nice clean panther job birds!

 

[steveo69]

A commission dye I did tonight.

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[Rob Edwards]

More of my dyes

Here are a few more

 

[Rob Edwards]

Damn, this is fun

So I figure this is a great place to post my questions I have about commissioned dye jobs. I have been dyeing discs for a few years and recently started posting them on a few social websites just to show people my hobby that I love. I have recently started getting a number of people asking me if I sell discs and how much I would sell my discs for. I never really thought about it before. I do all of my discs by hand so they take some time to finish. My question for this forum of disc dyers is, based on the discs you may have seen that I have posted in this forum, what do you think is an acceptable price for me to be asking for my discs? If I'm going to spend a lot of time on these, only to sell them, I obviously want to make it worth my while but I don't want to be asking so much for them that people think I am an @**hole and over-valuing my discs. I also don't want to make them so cheap that I get overrun with orders and requests and have to spend all my time making discs rather that actually getting to play.

Any input here would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Rob Edwards]

And a few more

Blah blah discs

 

[Rob Edwards]

Great work Rob......hmmmmm Michonne, my favorite character from The Walking Dead

Glad you like the disc. Such a rad show. I really want to dye one of Carl (the kid) too. He is a pretty tough little dude!

 

[Eky8]

I typically charge by color. However if there is a lot of extra work I may charge more for detail work. My typical price is $10 for a single color and $5 for each additional color. I max out at $30 for the dye work. My experience has been that most people will not pay more than $50 for a dyed disc. So $30 for the dye and $20 for a disc seems to be about the limit. If I am shipping the disc the customer pays for shipping as well.

 

[sisyphus]

I know I should probably spend some time searching this question, but while we're on the topic of commissioned work, what would you guys need in terms of a custom design? Any image that works as a stencil? (...and what types of elements in the design are impossible, a pain in the neck, or desirable?) In what (electronic?) format? I've got a million questions, but let's start there, THANK YOU!
btw, I love this thread: you all are artists, and deserve more than what you can typically charge. :clap:

 

[Dan Howard]

The important variables matter... handcut v plotter, mac v windows. I find that any image that looks good in 2-4 colors will make a good stencil, and I prefer scalable vector graphic (.svg) format 'cuz inkscape likes it.

Last nights fun!

 

[Bamm]

Wow..... Just awesome....

 

[Kenny53691]

Dang Dan, that looks really cool!

 

[Kenny53691]

what do you think is an acceptable price for me to be asking for my discs?

Thanks for asking that question! I was actually wondering the same thing myself and was wanting to post the same question

I typically charge by color. However if there is a lot of extra work I may charge more for detail work. My typical price is $10 for a single color and $5 for each additional color. I max out at $30 for the dye work. My experience has been that most people will not pay more than $50 for a dyed disc. So $30 for the dye and $20 for a disc seems to be about the limit. If I am shipping the disc the customer pays for shipping as well.

Awesome way of breaking it down. That is a good baseline to sell disc. I can't wait until I can achieve some better dye's myself.

 

[Birds]

Is that SC marbling Dan? Or something else? Been experimenting with some marbling techniques but nothing great so far.

 

[bombmk]

Last nights fun!

The blue marbling on that one is unreal.

 

[maansmit]

The important variables matter... handcut v plotter, mac v windows. I find that any image that looks good in 2-4 colors will make a good stencil, and I prefer scalable vector graphic (.svg) format 'cuz inkscape likes it.

Last nights fun!

That one makes me want to do some marbling tonight. Too bad I don't have any white discs.