Just few. As you see, nothing crazy complicated.

A few of my craft show sales.

Hey Frank, That's great. I have checked a few places and they want 50%. I also have a friend that rented a space at a craft mall and was very disappointing. I have some direct orders but seems like it's hard to beat doing it the hard way.
My high end is 150 (per) for resin and wood mills. I may sell a half a dozen but sell more boxes in the 40 price range. I have one lady that has purchased 28 mills in two years from me. She did 12 this Christmas. lol We have to remember sometimes less can be more.

Nice turn, Richard. I make a lot of resin mills and sell well.
What price point do you have to be on this kind of mill?
Lee

I originally had it priced at $80 before the resin top and $120 with the resin.  Considering that the blank itself was soft maple that came from a big box of cutoffs that I got at a garage sale for $5, I thought the price wasn't bad. Overall my pricing is determined by what I pay for an individual blank and what the market will bear. I could probably price most of my mills a bit higher but that comes at the risk of slower sales. In my particular situation I move more mills than not and I'm seeing a decent profit from it. That's not to say I don't have some pricey mills on the shelf.

I have for the most part stopped using exotics. Purpleheart, Padauk, Bloodwood and the other colored woods end up losing their color in the end and not worth the expense. Some exotics though sell well because of their grain patterns like Bocote. My fastest selling mills seem to be Big Leaf Maple. Lately all the blanks have some very nice figure, color contrasts and some spalting.

Working with casting resins is not an inexpensive endeavor and there is somewhat of a learning curve to it. Plus, at the $160 price tag for the 3 liter kit I bought (2:1 mix ratio) it is way too expensive to experiment with. I got lucky with that first top in it's final form but as I was turning it my first thought was just how much resin was being turned away. The square mold I made was probably a bit too big and when poured took approx. 8 oz of resin and I probably turned approx half away. At about $1.50+ an ounce, that's a lot of money on the floor.

Since making that top I have turned another top like it out of scraps from my designer firewood pile and made a silicone mold of it. Yet another expense. Now, any future tops can be poured into the mold, allowed to cure and put on the lathe and finished without any waste.

I have poured another top since making that mold. It took about half as much resin as the first one I made, just slightly over 4 oz. However, in curing, all the air bubbles that were in the mix didn't off gas and they are noticeable in the top. Fail.

Of course, there is a fix to this problem as well. More money!! Another couple hundred bucks will get you a vacuum pump and chamber to off gas all the air bubbles BEFORE pouring the resin. Since, the next top came out perfect and without the noticeable air bubbles.

Dont get a vacuum pump and chamber make a pressure pot.  I made one from a paint pot i got from harbor freight.  I think it was $80 something after a 20% coupon.  All it takes to convert it is a couple air line fittings and a pressure gauge.  Vacuum chambers attempt to pull all the air out of the resin were pressure pots compress the bubbles until they are so small you cant see them.  Once the resin cures under pressure they never come back.

Richard, Have you tried putting the filled mold in the vac chamber to outgas?

In my mills I try to use about 50% wood and the rest Alumilite resin. My pours are usually about 43 oz. and yes a lot is on the floor but that's in the price of the mill. The resin is about 28 bucks and the Crush Grind another 14. I come out with 110 usually. I use a 5 gal. pressure pot on it's side because my molds are 12". I have the hours down on making them to about 5. I wish I could sell for more but the price point at my shows wouldn't take it. A higher end show  they would but then again they cost much more entry and you will lose a couple more mills to cover that cost.
Funny, people won't even look at my all wood mills.