You never know where a business idea can come from
 

A friend of mine's wife is a chef. A few years back for Christmas she got a really nice KitchenAid mixer. Her cousin does auto body work so he offered to paint flames on it. She let him and it looks cool.

About six months later he lost his job at the auto body shop. Instead of getting another job he bought a dozen KitchenAid mixers and gave them all custom paint jobs then sold them on Ebay for a nice profit. Now he has turned it into a full time job. He does those Mixers as well as X-boxes, Nintendo Wii's and Play Stations. He is busy enough that he just hired someone to take over the shipping and handling stuff full time.

Always nice to hear success stories like that. Never hurts to think outside the box - that's where the big opportunities often are.

I love hearing things like this!! Awsome deal man awesome..

Custom paint is cool, buy hydro-dipping is the current rage. Tell your friend to look into it, I dont think I've ever seen anyone do a hydro-dipped kitchenaid before.

I have never heard of that. I'll have to look it up.

Nice to see creative projects do well. :thumbsup

Lots of people do fake carbon fibre car parts here with that.

Must be lots of appliances that could be painted as well as the mixer too.

I took a look at some stuff done with that and it was pretty cool. I'll mention it to him, I think it could be put to good use by him.

Link to some listings please.

Can that stuff he's using stand up to heat?

Because.. I'm thinking my toaster oven would look cool with some flames on it. :D

Pretty cool, congrats to him.

You have photos? I would like to see one!

yea, lets see some pics...

What a nice little inspiration for the day!

love that outside the box shit! Tell that idea to someone and you'd get a 'thats a dumb assed idea... no one would buy that' and you're buddy proved em wrong before they could open their mouths... very cool and yeah +1 for some pics, I'd love to see some of his work

Good luck to anyone going to College for a Bachelor's degree.

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I will see if he can send me some links to pics of some of the things he has done.

To be honest I have no idea if the paint he uses can stand up to heat. I would guess it could get warm and be okay, but toasters can get pretty hot so it might not be able to do that, but I can ask him.

That's a cool story. The most simple ideas are mostly the best.

fantastic thing ....

yap waiting for the pics :)

Cool and creative, good for him!

Very nice idea.

very cool idea lol

very inspirational.
best wishes for him.