Starting from inadvertence, Mustamil has found its way to reap tens of millions, with calligraphy bambung pointy Al-Mustamil.

"I was also baseball intentionally though, so try-just try it," said Mustamil to Kompas.com in Jakarta, Saturday (23/04/2011).

Initially, Mustamil started his experiments with papaya midrib. "I was not taking papaya stem to (create) a toy. I try to cut menyerong knew it could form the sentence of God," said the man who had run the business of this restaurant.

From there, while a trip to the mountains, he saw bamboo and tried it. With a sense of happy and confident, he tried to develop it. However Mustamil reveals the difficulty in production if it does not find the dried bamboo. "I'm less concerned about raw material," he said.

Mustamil say, quite economical in the use of bamboo. One log can be three-four works. To produce good calligraphy carvings, he needs bamboo and the bottom, because the need for stem thickness.

"Actually, everywhere you can, just a nice bamboo planted in red soil," he said.

Bamboo is planted in red soil has a special texture. Many of the pores in the pieces of the trunk, and the search for bamboo was not far from the manufacturing center in Yogyakarta.

For the initial capital, Mustamil pleaded not much to spend. Only USD $ 150,000-Rp200.000. Until now, funds are not a problem for business is its Arabic calligraphy writing.

Regarding marketing, Mustamil admits she still uses a personal way, from mouth to mouth, through exhibitions, and through consignment. Until now he has not used an agent because the manufacturing has not been able to mass. Not to mention if mass produced, it is feared people would think easy way of making bamboo calligraphy.

Even for workers, Mustamil uses only labor as much as two people, including himself.

Although production has not been much, demand has also penetrated the mainland of Europe, especially France. "From the academy what it was before," he said about the buyer from France, which met at the exhibition Inacraft, at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC), some time ago.

Related turnover, which has been the commencement of business since 2007 this could reach Rp 35 million per month, with 10-20 work produced. The price also varies between Rp 1 million and Rp 5 million.

"For example, difficult but it can succeed, I am happy, well that can be expensive," he said, the price varies based on the difficulty level of workmanship.

Looking ahead, he wants to open stores in West Java, at a boarding school. As he opened the shop, he was asked to teach the students at the pesantren.