TheMrs showed me this and asked for one. So I found a small beautiful scrap of sapele, shaped and molded it. But it's not like the one she online. So back to the shed I go and make the same one as the picture. She loved it, posted on the Facebook and now I'm inundated for orders for the holidays.
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I have a couple of issues here: I don't like the design and someone is selling these most likely as a cottage industry level. Even for more tool $ I do not wish to take away someone else's artisan income. So my solution is: any friends and family who wants me to make one can donate to a feed the homeless or a veterans charity until New Years, what they think it's worth. Or pony up the $60 for a rectangle with some books from the other place.
Thoughts as as hobbyists and makers? Am I overthinking the $ aspect like I did the design aspect?