How much would you pay for these?

[maroonandwhite]

I know the market is saturated with any paracord product you can think of but I enjoy making them and am thinking of selling some of the following items locally. Let me know if you think my prices are pretty reasonable. I will be making them with the real deal 550 paracord and using plastic buckles with the metal ones as an option.

 

Bracelets- $5 for regular weave. $6 for King cobra weave.(double the cord.)

Keychains- $3-5 depending on size and pattern

Dog collars- $7 for small dog $10 for big dog. I would probably do a double weave or "King cobra weave on these so they would be twice the paracord.

Crosses (necklace, rear view mirror ornament, etc. -$ 7

 

Surprisingly I have received a lot of requests for some of these from my wife's coworkers (bank) and older relatives. Must be the current climate that has folks interest peaked in "survival gear".

 

What do you guys think?

[Mdunntn]

depending on how many people you can reach out too those are good prices

[Raoul]

I'm all for it. I'm always looking for something on the side to pay for my hobbie, so I say start filling the orders you've got and when you get a little ahead post pics and sell em.

[Hi Point Hooligan]

Para-cord dream catcher ...

 

just an idea.

[Caster]

Hey Maroon, I dunno if they'd sell or not but something I did [and everyone who sees it loves it] is do a Solomon's knot for a finished length of 25 feet.  Plait the end loosely with a sturdy carabiner and I keep it wrapped around the flap on my bug out bag.  As it is, you could pull a truck with it.  Unbraided there's a LOT to work with there.  Takes up very little space.  

[maroonandwhite]

Great idea caster. I think my target audience mostly wants them for looks but I am going to make one when I get home for myself and see what folks think.

 

I wasn't really planning on selling them on here as I don't know how that would go over not being a vendor and all that. I don't want to go through all of that as I don't want this to become a "job". It may also kill the profit margin and/or "cheapness" having to pay $5 for flat rate box shipping. I don't have a problem selling you guys a few though if you want something.

 

Paracord is $7 per 100ft length here locally so once you figure in that, the cost of the buckles and "labor" I thought they were pretty reasonable prices. The wife actually sparked the idea. I made her one then she just had to have 3 or 4 more colors.

 

I figure I can make some of the local college colors as well.

[itchytriggerfinger]

Uncle Rico: We need something to make us look legit man.

 

Kip: You mean like gold bracelets?

 

 

LOL, sorry, we are on a Napoleon Dynamite kick at work today and it hit me.

[MarkInNashville]

Prices seem good to me. I think people just like the look of them, more than the fuctioniall aspects.

[Mdunntn]

I had to pay 7 for 50 ft at the last gunshow.. I need to find a good cheap source

[maroonandwhite]

Military surplus store is where I get mine.

[Mdunntn]

I need to go look around one day.

[maroonandwhite]

I had toyed with the idea of doing rifle slings but since it wouldn't be adjustable it wouldn't be worth the trouble.

[Il Duce]

My gf makes them with real paracord and the plastic clips and sells them all the time for $10 so I think your prices should do well.

[maroonandwhite]

Good deal. Thanks for all the info guys.

[BigK]

I sold monkey fist keychains for $15 w/ 1" steel bearings in them and 3 or 4 different kinds of bracelets for $5/10 each at work and to friends.

 

I quickly saturated my market, though, and went out of business.

[maroonandwhite]

Yeah I don't expect this to be a money making venture or anything. I am just getting into it honestly and figure I can make a little ammo money while making some cool stuff for friends and family. If I can sell one or two from every roll of paracord I buy that will at least pay for my paracord habit.

 

I'm just ready to get home and try out Caster's idea. I have been contemplating making some type of tow rope for a while now and just haven't got around to it.

[BigK]

coolest thing I made was a 2" wide strap for my range bag, but I let a buddy talk me out of it for $25

[maroonandwhite]

Yeah I might make a rifle strap pretty soon. I have seen a few different ways to do it but I just gotta figure out how I want to do it.

 

Those monkey fists sure are time consuming. Took me an hour to figure out how to tighten the thing up.

[UncleJak]

There is a shop near me tht sells them for double your price.  You should do fine.

[buck1032]

If you feel a need to branch out you could make some of these whistles. 

http://www.instructables.com/id/223-Survival-Whistle/

I made a few for my kid and his friends. Then it snow balled. LOL I have made probably close to 100 of them so far and have more sitting on my bench ready to assemble. Granted I didnt not spend much time on polishing mine, I just threw them in the tumbler. And I didnt expend any effort on cleaning up the business end, I just put heat shrink over it to keep kids lips off the solder. I sent two to a member here that has some sound measuring equipment and he said the were at 107 and 110 decibels. The difference was most likely due to me not positioning the "reed" correctly.

[maroonandwhite]

That's pretty cool. May have to try my hand at those.