How do you display you work for your Clients?

[Streetwerkz]

We are remodeling our show room, and looking for ideas on how to display our product.
this is our current display wall, how do the rest of you do it?[attachment=0:27izyksl]P1010173.JPG[/attachment:27izyksl]

[Guest]

Re: How do you display you work for your Clients?

WOW! that is really eye catching. I like that just how it is! Maybe add some more smaller parts so that you can show some more colors. I know I have seen some of the guys on here complain about black piece after black piece so I don't know if people buy those wild colors much, but they sure are fun to look at

[wiseguyz]

Re: How do you display you work for your Clients?

I'd have to keep my customer's parts do do that, so I don't have a display! Actually, I'm working on placing several different items on the walls around my shop.

[BeeBob]

Re: How do you display you work for your Clients?

Dan, Check out your local bike shops for freebies. My HD shop throws/gives away all sorts of trashed parts and sheet metal crating material. You'd be surprised at some of the stuff that goes in the trash!

[Guest]

Re: How do you display you work for your Clients?

Ohhhh that is the work going out...I thought that was just a display. Yea I think that looks super cool...I think I would just try and find some small parts that go with what you do and coat em up as you are doing the work you are already shooting. If I walked in to your shop...I would go check out that wall for certain! lookit allll the pretty colors!

[Streetwerkz]

Re: How do you display you work for your Clients?

No, that is on a wall in our show room, they are all display parts.
We have a motorcycle junk yard 1/2 mile down the road, all the motorcycle parts, including the frame we paid about $50 at the most.
bike frames we get from our local police auction, buy them 4-5 at a time for $10-$20.
I bought and prepped a ton of parts, them throw them in with customer jobs/set up for different display colors
the iron cross I cut out on our cnc plasma table, which is kinda what I'm thinking of doing for all our new display items.
That way we have one consistent shape, that ours, and ours only, plus a 2 dimensional part will take up alot less room.
More than anything I hate the way our showroom looks, and want to give it an upgrade.

a few more pics

[Guest]

Re: How do you display you work for your Clients?

I like it now hope i can do that one day. It would be different if you could get that diamond plate off your counter and put your company logo on it in powder.

[Streetwerkz]

Re: How do you display you work for your Clients?

I like it now hope i can do that one day. It would be different if you could get that diamond plate off your counter and put your company logo on it in powder.

My wife says the same thing, I am going to rebuild the counter, and maybe throw a bigger version of this on the new one.
this is a parts rack we use at shows

[rbroker]

Re: How do you display you work for your Clients?

The concept is there. I like the array of colors and samples. I wish I had that many.

You need something in the middle of the room. Like a rim rack with 4-6 rims on it. Maybe up light or down light it for a neat affect.

Hell, weld up a table with a glass top, and rims for a base, or a table with high top chairs with a rim seat. Get creative. From what I see that wont come to hard from you.

Something to break up the 150 squar feet of dead space.

[Streetwerkz]

Re: How do you display you work for your Clients?

The concept is there. I like the array of colors and samples. I wish I had that many.

You need something in the middle of the room. Like a rim rack with 4-6 rims on it. Maybe up light or down light it for a neat affect.

Hell, weld up a table with a glass top, and rims for a base, or a table with high top chairs with a rim seat. Get creative. From what I see that wont come to hard from you.

Something to break up the 150 square feet of dead space.

Agreed, It's all dead space now
We are going to gut most, or all of it out, and start from scratch.
I really want to create a WOW factor when people come thru the door.
We get alot of compliments, but this showroom is something we slapped together here, and there, then added to.
I want to use up every inch to create that WOW
sadly, I just know how to do work, not a designer, and cant afford to hire one

[rbroker]

Re: How do you display you work for your Clients?

I design some stuff in my garage that I'm like "that looks like crap, who'd want that?" then my family or friends are like, damn thats cool. "You should make them and sell em." I'm my harshiest critic.

Buy some used M/C front end's use them as legs. Tack them together get a free plate glass off craigslist from someones old furniture. Frost your logo in the glass with your sandblaster...I could go on and on.

[Streetwerkz]

Re: How do you display you work for your Clients?

I design some stuff in my garage that I'm like "that looks like crap, who'd want that?" then my family or friends are like, damn thats cool. "You should make them and sell em." I'm my harshest critic.

Buy some used M/C front end's use them as legs. Tack them together get a free plate glass off craigslist from someones old furniture. Frost your logo in the glass with your sandblaster...I could go on and on.

well keep on goin.... I need all the ideas I can get
I am a elimination person, explore all the possibilities, then eliminate down to the few best

[rbroker]

Re: How do you display you work for your Clients?

Well, I'll just build it and send you the bill

If you have a spare motor cycle, you could do that up in some fancy PC and put it in the show room. If your fortunate enough to have some of your stuff in magazines I would make posters and put them on the walls.

If it were my show room I would try to find some of the wildest things that people can PC. Find items that are just as intersting as the powder coat itself. Like someone posted a frame for RC cars. That too me sitting on the counter would be badass. It sure beats a diff cover or shock tube. Or the dude who did those microphone. I did a junk saw blade and it looks cool. Build a go kart or bar stool racer. You want people to remember your shop and your services so I say go wild, but keep it clean, and not cluttered.

That'll be 50 bucks for shop consulting :P

[Streetwerkz]

Re: How do you display you work for your Clients?

waiting on my stimulus package, and I'll get it right out

thanks

[Guest]

Re: How do you display you work for your Clients?

haha rbroker GREAT ideas!

Man If you have a plasma cutter, a welder, and you powder coat...the world is your oyster! I am totally with rbroker on this one...imbibe to much of whatever your drug of choice is and start writing down silly ideas. When you sober up, get to work! The table idea is awesome. You sit w customers to do up paperwork? go check out these stools http://www.timetosteel.com/album_9_012.htm I had a buddy who owned a muffler shop when I got my first apartment. He bent us up a pipe into a frame and we had a plywood sized wall mirror and made the coolest table ever.

With the cutter you could do up 4 or 5 different parts that all kind of fit together on the wall...think m.c. escher...do them all in different colors.

not normal things for SURE will get you extra business. You got guys walking in there wanting shiny things...show them that you can make everything they own shiny. I haven't seen anyone talk about this at all, but computer cases man...these kids will spend HUGE $$$ on computer cases. I found a site online, in and out 1 color $150, clear $70 more if the box is blasted. The WOW factor is huge. If you have something really cool, I will tell my friends and without you doing anything else...a new person not only knows about your shop, but wants to come see your cool stuff.

I would go w track lighting too...you can fiddle w it and get everything to shine real nice. I like the diamond you got now too. It looks clean, orderly. The 'feel' of a shop is sooo important. Pump in some music, not to loud, and make sure that people that don't know anything about what you are doing can figure it out on their own. People are insecure. If they don't know what is up, they don't want to look dumb and the safest way to do that is to not ask anything. Have some before/after stuff, maybe a little area that shows how it works and why it is such a great way to coat your entire life so they can just poke around and get a basic feel for what it is you can do for them.