Made a business card holder

Got my material in today and made the first of the full size holders.

Tomorrow I'll run about 10 of them and them flip them over and machine off the excess material. Then I'll put them on Ebay and see if there is any interest in them.

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I decided to make a few card holders and customize them with my customers business names on them and send them out today.

Kind of a way to announce I have CNC milling capabilities now. My "calling card" so to speak ;)


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After seeing a business card holder on here someone made for his wife, I decided to make some of my holders a little differently. I can't seem to find the post with the dog bone shaped business card holder. If I could I'd thank him for the idea and apologize for stealing his idea ;)

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I keep thinking that would be a great holder for end mills or center drills or some other tooling!
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I hadn't thought of that. I could make custom ones :grin:
 
Just remember The off shore guys. Watch eBay like a hawk, for ideas to steal.
 
Yeah I know what you mean. Back in the day I had a line of ATV parts all polished billet aluminum. I invented the billet thumb throttle cover and even got a magazine article on them. Now they sell for $20 each with shipping. I don't think anyone in the USA can make them that cheap. They are selling them for less than I did 15 years ago. I sold them back then for $40 and literally sold hundreds of them. I thought about making them again, but not for $20.

It won't take long for them to be copied I'm sure. Just the way it goes I guess. Can't stop them from doing it.

I've been looking on Ebay and other sites thinking about making transmission adapters. I'm a car guy and I'll make anything legal on my mill to sell, I'd rather do hot rod parts. I love going to swap meets with my transmissions. The best part is talking with about 98% of the people, and unfortunately the 2% aren't so fun. But that goes with anything I guess.

Here is a link to the article on the wayback machine. You can see some other stuff I made there too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020207144135/http://www.alloyspecialties.com:80/article1.html
 
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