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With the materials being free or next to free, and I can make three in one weekend, start to finish, and sell them for $15 a piece.
Someone might say, "well, I wouldn't spend my whole Saturday making 3 birdhouses to sell for $15 a piece." But someone else might do it as a form of relaxation. They sell them just to get rid of them, otherwise their garage would fill up with birdhouses.
I think you could probably make more money selling bird houses.
But you are still undervaluing your product.
Even if you manage to get some materials free, you spent a lot of time and work to do that.
Price your product as if you did pay for them and there is a benefit to that work, if not you are just giving that work away.
and copper liners are pretty soft.
I have brass liner slippies with bent liners.
Thin steel is much stronger.
Use thin shim stock for strength and layer it with copper for your looks.