There's a retail woodworking shop opening just a few miles form my house. I'm excited about it and a little worried about what it will do to my pocketbook to drive past good tools every day. It looks like it will be a great store.
I had also heard seen that they would have a shop which could be used by woodworkers. I was pretty excited about that too. There's lots of equipment I don't have, a lathe for example. Imagine being able to go over and rent time on a equipment for some fair price. They will also have a pro finishing room. Sounds great. An article in the local paper says it will cost $10,000 to join plus about $1,000 per year. You also get some 0.2% of some kind of ownership in the store for that price. That is way way way out of my price range.
If they can get the business, more power to them, but it seems way out of line to me. Is this realistic? Are their other shops like this? I could put together a pretty impressive shop for $10,000. They hope to get 95 people to join. That's $950,000.
What do you think?