Here is the extension mounted to my Foreman. It brings it out far enough to not interfere with the vacuum fitting. Great job!
Thanks,
Lauren
3 Likes
I love seeing pics of the product pop up here, and on social media! It’s very rewarding!
Been spending just about all my free time making these. Caught up on orders on Friday, and now back to making some to build up stock.
I didn’t really have a great sense of how long the different cutters would last. I’m actually blown away at the longevity of the cutters. This 5 gallon pail of aluminum chips is about 1/4 of all the chips created so far. I have yet to change the cutter. When the cutter was new, the parts came out with crisp edges, and now they come out with the slightest of burrs on the edges. A subsequent operation removes the burrs, so it makes no difference in the final product. Surface finish on the faces is still very good.
Does anyone have any knowledge on the generally accepted strategy to know when to change cutters when used in aluminum? Just run it until it breaks??
I’ve watched a lot of Mitchells Woodworks videos to help me understand the Onefinity machine when I started. I sent Marty a free Masso extension mount to say thanks for his videos. That started a conversation with Marty at Mitchells Woodworks that resulted in a video about my new product! Of course I jumped on the opportunity to have a video made about it. I was pumped! The video came out last Monday - which was super satisfying to watch.
Check it out!
Shipping Update:
Uuugh - There was a looming postal strike here in my area that threatened to delay my product getting to users, potentially for weeks. Turns out the strike didn’t happen. For a period I was upgrading all the orders to UPS so users didn’t face a long delay. Costs more to ship via UPS and I just had to eat the upcharge. It was also a pain having to copy-paste a bunch of orders into the UPS shipping software. Whereas Etsy, and my website make it very easy to print and process an order efficiently. Highly recommend Etsy or Squarespace for hosting e-commerce.
1 Like
This is way overdue but huge shout out to MikeXYZ and his product. I just finally got another dust shoe to try this extension with and its perfect.
Due to my setup I have to have the Masso facing 90 degrees from the front and this extension gives plenty of room for that with the double barrel dust shoe!
2 Likes
Been a while since I made an update on this!
Super excited this little bracket has been so well received within the community. Seems the general consensus is that this is a necessity when upgrading to a spindle, or adding dust collection.
I had a summer vacation planned, and stocked up so I don’t fall behind on orders
Sent one over to the UK too. Which was pretty cool.
Thought I would focus in on the “Etsy Experience” for all those who wonder about it.
It has been great! While I have a website to sell these on, Etsy is an easier way to sell, and seems like more people trust the platform over a standard website. Adjusting my own website to sell products was about 2 days worth of work. It took me about a day to get up and running on Etsy, and was a lot more streamlined.
Etsy really is a great platform for beginners as they take care of virtually all the complicated parts of selling online. They really hold your hand through the process to make sure you get up and running.
It’s not perfect, and there are a few downsides to Etsy.
-
The fee is significantly larger than selling on your own website, but the efficiency gains seems to be worth the fee. I’m sure it’s quite a bit better than selling into a brick and mortar store.
-
I had some shipping issues come up, for about 2 weeks Etsy just wouldn’t provide a shipping service. Thankfully, I have another shipping service, Shippo, to use as a backup. I recommend any Etsy sellers have a backup shipping service on hand for this reason.
-
I did a fair bit of research on Youtube about selling on Etsy. I was shocked that I had no idea that after your store starts to pick up and sell regularly, Etsy will promote your products BUT automatically take an additional cut from the sale price if the item is purchased through the ad. No way to opt out of that either!
-
Not everybody has an Etsy account, or is willing to create one to buy something. So just seems like the audience is smaller.
I had originally created my Etsy store to sell a completely different product - an aluminum mount purpose-built to store jack stand on the wall. Like many people, just found they were always in the way, and took up valuable floor space in the garage.
It was this product that really pushed me over the edge to get the Onefinity machine. I contacted many shops to have these laser cut. After finding the Onefinity machine, I realized that cutting these with a router would be slower, but still more economical than having a laser shop do it.
I had originally just put this up on my own website, but after adding it to an Etsy store, sales picked up. It was also interesting to see how sales of these jackstand brackets increased as the Masso Extension Mount sales started. It became obvious that Etsy has an algorithm to promote products from stores that have other products selling. The jack stand bracket happens to be a great gift idea for a garage lover, and Etsy is full of people browsing for gift ideas.
3 Likes
You’re becoming an industrial titan.
2 Likes
Do you have a brake to bend the brackets? I have something that would be similar construction that I want to make but the laser cutting places are not economical as you mention.
Yes, I bend them on-site using a hydraulic press and brake attachment.
Shops were very expensive in low quantity, and very slow to respond.
I eventually broke down and just bought to do it, and be in control of the process.
1 Like