Why not ? After all, if her daughters liked it, others might agree. This is the story of “Grave Beau”, the micro-enterprise created by Franck Dagois at the beginning of February this year. His wooden works are now available for sale on the internet.
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The father of the family retraces his career: “I started at home, from a personal point of view, a little over a year ago”. He then bought the machine to make prototypes for his two young daughters, then for his friends and family. “I liked it and they liked it,” he returns. The question of the company then came to him: “It’s a shame not to be able to sell them,” he said to himself.
This interest in machines does not come out of nowhere, Franck Dagois comes from a professional baccalaureate as a machining technician. The field of programming and digital technology had already conquered him, but engraving, “not especially, it’s a discovery”.
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One goal: to do everything alone
Two weeks ago, he created the website without prior training: “I didn’t want to go through someone to make the site and depend on this person”.
Born in Guéret, the Creusois also had to install software for his laser cutting machine and thus discovered the world of graphics.
But he didn’t stop working full time on the side. “What’s good about a micro-enterprise is that you can get started without taking too many risks,” appreciates Franck Dagois.
Supply according to demand
Because the creation of the site is already used to “see the demand, take the temperature”. The site is installed on the Shopify platform, it allows him, “to see where people are connecting from, some are in the Paris region, others in Biarritz”.
His projects? “If it works, it’s clear that I have ambitions” but for Franck Dagois, “it’s far”.
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For now, he has orders, thanks to word of mouth. Of all kinds even because as he assures us, “normally, I can do everything”. With his laser cutting machine, he can manage creations of up to 70 x 50 centimeters. If the desire – and the request – took him, he could make creations in copper or marble.
For his daughters, he had started with key rings, adorned with the words “thank you mistress” for the end of the school year, then he had tried Christmas balls. He is now diversifying according to orders and customers: “I have the idea of making a jack for a friend who likes petanque and someone contacted me to offer wedding corks to his guests”.
The creations are customizable from A to Z.
Franck Dagois
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But on his site? For the moment, it targets “especially young mothers, with decorative objects for children’s rooms”. Time to develop your presence on social networks.
Charlotte Mathiot
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