It’s only a few weeks until the Foothills Fall Festival and I’m in semi-panic mode.  The new cutting board designs completely sold out at the Sandy Springs Festival, so I need to create another batch.  The challenge I am facing is I have the Avondale Autumn Fest the weekend after the Tennessee show leaving me with about three days between shows.  This doesn’t leave me with enough time to replenish inventory before Avondale,  which means I need to have enough products for both shows by the time I leave for Tennessee.

Every show is different and it varies wildly which products sell the best from show to show.  I think the price points on the new face grain ones, at $30, is the driving factor, not to mention that they are pretty.  I sold out of them at the last two shows, so I figure that I need about 40 of various wood combinations.  I also need more long bread boards because the quantity is getting low.  For some reason the solid walnut end grain boards have moved rather quickly at the last two shows.  This is my most expensive board, and also very popular with the guys.  Here again, I sold my last one at Sandy Springs.

I spent today working off my cut list, cutting strips for the face grain boards until I ran out of wood.   This only gave me enough strips for 10 boards.  Since I am also out of 1 ½” walnut needed for more end grain boards, I need to make a trip to Peach State Lumber tomorrow to load up.  I’ve never tried to create this much inventory in such a short period of time, so I am rearranging the shop slightly to accommodate the increase in inventory.  I need more clear space to sit all these clamped boards while the glue dries.  I guess you could say that this is a good problem to have, but it’s still a little intense.