Pretty sure that's what he said, he just doesn't have the best English speaking skils, eight, nine, to a thousand, is what he should have said.. Edit- turn your subtiles on, he literally says 900k but it's okay we all make mistakes, like alot of you here...🤣
Look for where the rich folks live, look for the vendors, events near them? I don't sell to the rich, I'm not rich, but I live near rich lake communities and grew up in rich beach communities. That's roughly the formula I see local artisans take. In the age of social media and internet, should be easy enough to locate. The salesmanship is up to you!
@@AkshayKumar-ue1fp because a wedding planner is someone who has all the contacts to bring a wedding together not someone who has all of the equipment. You comment could be the same for a DJ, flowers, glassware, balloons. Furthermore there’s a whole business just doing decode for weddings and shops who just own massive bits of pottery and statues with the same idea of renting them out
I depends on location and story behind it as well as presentation. I could make an Identical board and not get $50 for it. I've sold board for $10. I don't make boards anymore at this time. I sell slabs to those who do.
That's not a bad spot to be in either. I am deciding on if I wanna try to make stuff or just pass the material along. I do tree work. We pay to get rid of stuff sometimes that other people would for sure use in their art.
Bought one from you last year and gave it to my sister in law who loved it! Well worth the money and time you spent. I love supporting actual artists instead of big companies, to me it means more and it's usually better quality too. Artists deserve to do their passion and make money. Pay your artists people!
@@paulhopkins1905you clearly don’t understand how people who love hand made things think because to them it is art and actually it takes a lot of skill to even do something basic while making it look pleasing to the eye hence why it can be called art
@@althompson8417 handcrafted pieces take a lot of time, skill and effort in addition to cost of high quality materials. not even remotely in the same realm of the shitty mass-produced things from an overseas factory youre comparing with
The irony of being a free craftsman artist. Society condemns lavish spendings and value honest living. But to make a honest living artisits need people wiling to spend money on unnecessary luxuries.
The hard part is fooling rich people into thinking it’s some high quality artisanal product that takes a ton of skill when it’s the easiest shit you could possibly make.
What makes you think is easy? The video with speed edited or a skill-full man, making it look easy and yet ending with the sentence - careful you may burn out too easy .... ?
@@hentsydesigns9046 Sped up or bot, its as hard as having a shop, buying the material and spending a couple hours processing. Most of the work is preparator. The effort of getting and housing everything is the real expense of the work. The video said it absolutely right, "Making the board is the easy part".
@@hentsydesigns9046lol bro This is the easiest type of work. More power to him. I’ve made a few for family on a free weekend looked identical or better to what was seen here. It’s really not difficult at all. The right tools makes it so easy to
@@Pfish1000 I agree this could be used as one. I know what a charcuterie board is. The wood is not the same at the high end of these, its softer face-grain wood which does NOT hold up to knives. Also I would imagine if it is epoxy glossed that it is also not suitable for being a cutting board. You can use your counter top or an ironing board to cut things if you wanted to.
Genuine question: I've noticed in a few of your videos that you use wood that seems to have some termite damage based on the little tunnels. Do you still use the slabs because they're kiln dried so no chance of live crawlers? Or do you do something else to treat it?
I just heat all my wood for indoor furniture to 55° celsius for a few hours and everything is dead. Also he buys the cheapest wood for his scam buisness. He is lucky to find idiot buyers that pay 5 timea the real price😂
love the straightforward and honest perspective on this, sure you can make that much but as you can hear from him, it’s really about attracting and maintaining a quality clientele
make some cake stands, i started making them 3 years ago as a hobby and sold a few online, a decent one will sell fast as cake creators like strong decrotive cake stands,the biggest one it was for a cake with base size of 4 feet and over 35kg, also the pillars between tiers, turn those on the lathe and walnut looks great sold a dozen packs of 12 of those... they were made from scrap pieces from the cake stands...
I must have been raised different, he said shakcootoray board and I’m over here thinking he was making some Naruto stuff. He straight up made a wooden ironing board with a handle
If you seriously think putting a little resin over a plank makes you an artist you are no more than a middle man in the transaction. Nature is the true art.
Great honest assessment of that woodworking niche. You have to find the right customers to spend that much. And that part can be hard to do especially if you aren’t in the right area. Plus lots on competition.
@@arthurthegreatandpowerful3841not true! I didn’t have money growing up but grew up farming and raising cattle the amount of pelts we got or blankets from people we traded beef with was amazing my whole cabin was filled with local art and we had enough to sustain our farm and us but little left over but traded a bunch for things like this so people could eat. You don’t have to be rich to be rich.
this was the issue i had trying to sell terrariums and aquascaped aquariums. good ones sell for thousands of dollars, but it's very niche and they don't ship through the mail very well since they're fragile. the really small ones that cost $25-50 sold as fast as i could make them, but that wasn't paying the bills
Good to know! I make charcuterie boards all the time and my dad is a woodsman so I’ll definitely give it a shot! He wants to get into learning epoxy anyway!
Some board would need to be planned out as a set to make it feasible. A good design would be one where it saves time to scale it up and make like 20 at once.
I stopped doing them because a board like that barely fetches a tenner over material cost here. It's not an 800-1000 dollar board, it's maybe a 35-50 dollar board. Dude is just lucky to be in a market where customers want to brag about having the most expensive X Y or Z. So they will gladly pay 1000 for a bit of wood, just to be able to one-up their friend who paid 800 for a bit of wood.
I got a cool idea maybe. A table with 4 puzzle piece tops put together. Make the pieces from wood or epoxy or both. If you have puzzle pieces on th outside sticking out make those cup holders or just do straight edges all around. Wish i had a work shop to do this stuff
The people calling the buyers idiots are usually the same people who complain that no one supports craftsmen anymore. The affordable stuff is made either overseas or by automated labor. Prices will never, ever go back down because companies would sooner fire everyone and even cut supply rather than allow their profit margins to drop (that's 40% of inflation right there actually). Craftsmen have had to adapt to their new markets: premium products sold at high prices. Without those buyers, the only people making these boards would be hobbyists.
I once read that Epoxy floors exude toxic fumes and that it isn't too much of a healthy material to use in construction. Now, using it as a board on which I would prepare my food, is a step further.
@@16stellarstars its still holding on 5 years later i just noticed that if you dont reglue the bark, after time its cracks or comes right off like a dead tree open to oxygen
I’ve done custom woodworking for over 20 years. Cabinets, furniture, crafts just like the board you did in this video. I can totally confirm that finding customers willing to pay the big bucks is by far the hardest part of the job. Jerks driving up in their $100k vehicles bitching about a custom piece being valued at $50. “I can get it done for half of that by my neighbor/friend/cousin etc..” we’ll go have them do it then..🤷♂️
I was in Breckenridge yesterday to hike quandary peak. He’s absolutely right. I wanted a souvenir and chose a coaster. That thing was $80. Beautiful city though
Yep. I made a bunch of charcuterie boards for a lady I work with for her side hustle. I have a chainsaw mill rigged up so ripping logs down really isn’t a problem for me. She bought all the supplies too, I just had to put them all together 😂 they weren’t these BIG ones either, maybe only 3ft or so long. But, to do one it cost 70 bucks in epoxy alone. I’m just a lucky bullshitter so I don’t have the privilege of charging for experience 😂 But no, after she bought all the epoxy and a few other consumables, she had 9ft of charcuterie board for about $300. Again, materials only. I also thought “who the fuck is buying these” until I made a few and the cost just piles up. If you’re infilling with epoxy yet I imagine it would get pretty pricey pretty quickly. Glad I made them, it was pretty eye opening to what quality woodworkers are actually worth… and it’s a lot 😂
If I ever had a reason to use a board like that, $500 seems exceptionally reasonable. I’d probably make my own at that point tho. Take long, but I have access to decent woodworking tools. Haha
Justifying an exorbitant price for a piece of wood you did a few days of work on by saying other places charge 1,000 is outrageous. 500 is never gonna be a decent price and 1,000 is just idiotic.
Ill be honest. $500 sounds cheep, not because i think a board should cost $900. Its because for the amount of work and overhead there seems to be in this i dont see how one could survive unless they could somehow sell $700 boards every day
Do you got like an online store or something? I’d like to check out some of your projects unless you make on demand. This is my second video of yours that I e watched so I was just asking
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They look awesome bro ! Great job and best of luck!💯👍🔥
Facts. I used to make cabinets and countertops and all that stuff, that's not a bad price at all. 💪🏼👍🏼💪🏼💪🏼👍🏼👍🏼
At first I thought you meant 800-900k
Not 800, 900 1,000 😭
Pretty sure that's what he said, he just doesn't have the best English speaking skils, eight, nine, to a thousand, is what he should have said..
Edit- turn your subtiles on, he literally says 900k but it's okay we all make mistakes, like alot of you here...🤣
That’s what I thought he said also until I just read your comment🤣..I was bout to say..he couldn’t have said that much.
He meant 8, 9k
You good bro I thought the same thing, definitely could’ve worded it better. 🤣
I was just about to make this same comment I had to rewatch the video when I Hurd that I was like wtf 😂😂
Finding people with more money than sense is the hardest part of this guys job.
Look for where the rich folks live, look for the vendors, events near them? I don't sell to the rich, I'm not rich, but I live near rich lake communities and grew up in rich beach communities. That's roughly the formula I see local artisans take. In the age of social media and internet, should be easy enough to locate. The salesmanship is up to you!
Dude right ? I'm like that a bad ass idea but first you need clients who would take it
Some people do have expandable income.
@emosam07 yeah, true. However, even if you're a multi millionaire, $500+ on a glorified chopping board is moronic.
Missed opportunity to say “more dollars than sense” :/
Selling them is hard but get your hands on a few wedding planners and rent them out every weekend now your killing it
Brilliant
Exactly this! It's all about how you market your product. It will sell but only if you find the right target audience
And would possibly would get follow up clients from the weddings
Why would a wedding planner rent out charcuterie boards and not just buy them?
@@AkshayKumar-ue1fp because a wedding planner is someone who has all the contacts to bring a wedding together not someone who has all of the equipment. You comment could be the same for a DJ, flowers, glassware, balloons. Furthermore there’s a whole business just doing decode for weddings and shops who just own massive bits of pottery and statues with the same idea of renting them out
I depends on location and story behind it as well as presentation. I could make an Identical board and not get $50 for it. I've sold board for $10. I don't make boards anymore at this time. I sell slabs to those who do.
That's not a bad spot to be in either. I am deciding on if I wanna try to make stuff or just pass the material along. I do tree work. We pay to get rid of stuff sometimes that other people would for sure use in their art.
@@joeydurant6267 I get a lot of my material from tree services.
Yeah for real. I’m lucky enough to live in a “posh area” but they’re all weird tightarses and it’s easier to get blood out a stone here
@@anonman3707 that's why they're rich LOL
Bought one from you last year and gave it to my sister in law who loved it! Well worth the money and time you spent. I love supporting actual artists instead of big companies, to me it means more and it's usually better quality too. Artists deserve to do their passion and make money. Pay your artists people!
No art involved and the barest of minnimums of skill
@@paulhopkins1905you clearly don’t understand how people who love hand made things think because to them it is art and actually it takes a lot of skill to even do something basic while making it look pleasing to the eye hence why it can be called art
@@paulhopkins1905can you make them?
@@J-Mac8 yes, in about 20 minutes. It is literally the paint by numbers of woodworking
@@wlfshadow4255 It's called the acceptance of mediocrity
Man, the burnout part is so true. Fugin El. Good work by the way.
$500…. People as a woodworker don’t fall for this scam
It is not "people who enjoy buying local artists", that's a handful of crunchy HOA moms wanting to show off to the neighbours
And that’s his market lol
and why do they want to show it off? because its a beautiful handcrafted piece by a local artist..
@@joe-jp1etthat in no way justifies the price... just because idiots will pay it and raise the industry standard price, doesn't make it worth it.
@@althompson8417 handcrafted pieces take a lot of time, skill and effort in addition to cost of high quality materials. not even remotely in the same realm of the shitty mass-produced things from an overseas factory youre comparing with
Those go hand in hand. They enjoy buying from local artists because they can use it to show off.
The irony of being a free craftsman artist. Society condemns lavish spendings and value honest living. But to make a honest living artisits need people wiling to spend money on unnecessary luxuries.
“Now I know some of might…” lol always the line.
The hard part is fooling rich people into thinking it’s some high quality artisanal product that takes a ton of skill when it’s the easiest shit you could possibly make.
Thank you!
What makes you think is easy? The video with speed edited or a skill-full man, making it look easy and yet ending with the sentence - careful you may burn out too easy .... ?
@@hentsydesigns9046
Sped up or bot, its as hard as having a shop, buying the material and spending a couple hours processing.
Most of the work is preparator.
The effort of getting and housing everything is the real expense of the work.
The video said it absolutely right, "Making the board is the easy part".
@@hentsydesigns9046lol bro
This is the easiest type of work. More power to him. I’ve made a few for family on a free weekend looked identical or better to what was seen here. It’s really not difficult at all. The right tools makes it so easy to
@@nazaxprimewhat’s stopping you from doing it?
Daaang,… Kohls and Marshall’s got me spoiled with the $25 price tag because I’ll use them until they get ugly then throw them away.
Not a cutting board, I hope no one is using a knife on these.
@@pilodrou4213 I mean it would work as one. It's just this is meant to plate the food. The wood is the same. So is the price.
@@Pfish1000 I agree this could be used as one. I know what a charcuterie board is. The wood is not the same at the high end of these, its softer face-grain wood which does NOT hold up to knives. Also I would imagine if it is epoxy glossed that it is also not suitable for being a cutting board.
You can use your counter top or an ironing board to cut things if you wanted to.
@@pilodrou4213 so it’s not even $500 for a cutting board. It’s $500 for a wooden plate. Oh boy.
@@Gekkco you know... when you put it that way...
Genuine question: I've noticed in a few of your videos that you use wood that seems to have some termite damage based on the little tunnels. Do you still use the slabs because they're kiln dried so no chance of live crawlers? Or do you do something else to treat it?
I just heat all my wood for indoor furniture to 55° celsius for a few hours and everything is dead. Also he buys the cheapest wood for his scam buisness. He is lucky to find idiot buyers that pay 5 timea the real price😂
Would love to learn to do this. Well done
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It's not hard buy a bandsaw jigsaw and power drill a drill press and a drum sander.
After 2 weeks anyone can do it.
Does it come with a “live, laugh, love” sign?
Total cost of supplies 2-300 bucks and profit 800 bucks for 2 hours of work is a dope job won’t lie
love the straightforward and honest perspective on this, sure you can make that much but as you can hear from him, it’s really about attracting and maintaining a quality clientele
make some cake stands, i started making them 3 years ago as a hobby and sold a few online, a decent one will sell fast as cake creators like strong decrotive cake stands,the biggest one it was for a cake with base size of 4 feet and over 35kg, also the pillars between tiers, turn those on the lathe and walnut looks great sold a dozen packs of 12 of those... they were made from scrap pieces from the cake stands...
I must have been raised different, he said shakcootoray board and I’m over here thinking he was making some Naruto stuff. He straight up made a wooden ironing board with a handle
It's a serving board for meats and cheeses. As well as sweet and savory items.
What kind of finish do you use?
If you seriously think putting a little resin over a plank makes you an artist you are no more than a middle man in the transaction. Nature is the true art.
Great honest assessment of that woodworking niche. You have to find the right customers to spend that much. And that part can be hard to do especially if you aren’t in the right area. Plus lots on competition.
man there are some beautiful wood making artists out there. gotta love it
I remember back when six figures sounded like a lot...
I wish more people were interested in buying high quality hand-crafted items made by local artists. ❤
Wish in one hand, crap in the other. Which fills first?
Plus all the tools and replaceables used in the process, that adds up
Have you ever considered doing long form content on youtube?
It's simple people with money that appreciate fine art
People with money are the ONLY people who have the luxury of appreciating fine art. Fine art is meaningless to someone with no money.
@@arthurthegreatandpowerful3841not true! I didn’t have money growing up but grew up farming and raising cattle the amount of pelts we got or blankets from people we traded beef with was amazing my whole cabin was filled with local art and we had enough to sustain our farm and us but little left over but traded a bunch for things like this so people could eat. You don’t have to be rich to be rich.
this was the issue i had trying to sell terrariums and aquascaped aquariums. good ones sell for thousands of dollars, but it's very niche and they don't ship through the mail very well since they're fragile. the really small ones that cost $25-50 sold as fast as i could make them, but that wasn't paying the bills
Awesome looking board!
Good to know! I make charcuterie boards all the time and my dad is a woodsman so I’ll definitely give it a shot! He wants to get into learning epoxy anyway!
This isn’t about skill, this about having clientele. Anybody can do this if they known enough in their town to get business lmao.
What’s stopping you then lmao
The fact that there's only like 3 people dumb enough to spend 800 on a 20$ piece of wood
$900,000 for a board is a steal in Breckenridge
Do you have deliveries to other countries my friend to middle east for example,, i really like your work brother keep it up
What l loved the most of your project is the one that have starwars space ship on it.
Everyone is an artist. Thanks subway😊
I've always wanted to build a coffee table from wood and old nuts bolts tools poured into the epoxy parts
i didn't knew JRE started to do woodworking
not people who love hand craftet stuff, people with a lot of spare income
Same people whining have no problem spending twice that on a video game or a phone so it's more of an issue of prioritization.
Some board would need to be planned out as a set to make it feasible. A good design would be one where it saves time to scale it up and make like 20 at once.
Thank you fpr your buisness inside info, i will now have these boards mass produced at a fraction of the cost and price gouge you from the market
I stopped doing them because a board like that barely fetches a tenner over material cost here.
It's not an 800-1000 dollar board, it's maybe a 35-50 dollar board. Dude is just lucky to be in a market where customers want to brag about having the most expensive X Y or Z. So they will gladly pay 1000 for a bit of wood, just to be able to one-up their friend who paid 800 for a bit of wood.
Beautiful! You usually tell us about the wood. Not for this video....Walnut is my guess, I like the way you relate with your work. Don't burn out...
Wow, thats beautiful ❤️
You're the first person I've seen with the same 3 initialist as me. I'm also an artist, but I make paintings, and fiber art.
Beyond beautiful
I would love to have one of those
My favorite thing of all. No, I can't build anything like that, but I sure do love it. The wood is spectacular. Burls are my #1 ❤
No hate to the people making the boards. I just laugh at the suckers who buy them.
What are these boards used for?
People with money is the answer to that first question 😂
Jonah wanted Dave to give him the exact odds of them meeting again
I love it 😊
Great free business information...
I got a cool idea maybe. A table with 4 puzzle piece tops put together. Make the pieces from wood or epoxy or both. If you have puzzle pieces on th outside sticking out make those cup holders or just do straight edges all around. Wish i had a work shop to do this stuff
The people calling the buyers idiots are usually the same people who complain that no one supports craftsmen anymore.
The affordable stuff is made either overseas or by automated labor. Prices will never, ever go back down because companies would sooner fire everyone and even cut supply rather than allow their profit margins to drop (that's 40% of inflation right there actually). Craftsmen have had to adapt to their new markets: premium products sold at high prices. Without those buyers, the only people making these boards would be hobbyists.
Should have filled that hole with some of the saw dust after you cut it
I once read that Epoxy floors exude toxic fumes and that it isn't too much of a healthy material to use in construction. Now, using it as a board on which I would prepare my food, is a step further.
You have a website?
why not glue the bark back on and epoxy over? i made many and most customers wanted the bark on
I was wondering about that! If it’s possible to keep the bark. How did your work turn out?
@@16stellarstars its still holding on 5 years later i just noticed that if you dont reglue the bark, after time its cracks or comes right off like a dead tree open to oxygen
I simply would never burn out this is easy pickens if you have a shop already
I built a guitar from scratch out of maple and walnut. Blank was at least 300
just because people will pay that price , doesn't make it any less crazy
Kinda looks like a cutting board 👍
I’ve done custom woodworking for over 20 years. Cabinets, furniture, crafts just like the board you did in this video. I can totally confirm that finding customers willing to pay the big bucks is by far the hardest part of the job. Jerks driving up in their $100k vehicles bitching about a custom piece being valued at $50. “I can get it done for half of that by my neighbor/friend/cousin etc..” we’ll go have them do it then..🤷♂️
I was in Breckenridge yesterday to hike quandary peak. He’s absolutely right. I wanted a souvenir and chose a coaster. That thing was $80. Beautiful city though
Where can I find a longer and thicker version of that sanding rod contraption? Asking for a friend.
We have the same initials. Rad!!!!
How is the bosch get65/get75? I really want to get one for myself
Finding somebody to sucker into buying a piece of wood for 5-600 dollars is a skill set I guess, cudos
Yeaah i think that's the hardest part , knowing who to sell them too
Yep. I made a bunch of charcuterie boards for a lady I work with for her side hustle. I have a chainsaw mill rigged up so ripping logs down really isn’t a problem for me. She bought all the supplies too, I just had to put them all together 😂 they weren’t these BIG ones either, maybe only 3ft or so long. But, to do one it cost 70 bucks in epoxy alone. I’m just a lucky bullshitter so I don’t have the privilege of charging for experience 😂
But no, after she bought all the epoxy and a few other consumables, she had 9ft of charcuterie board for about $300. Again, materials only. I also thought “who the fuck is buying these” until I made a few and the cost just piles up. If you’re infilling with epoxy yet I imagine it would get pretty pricey pretty quickly. Glad I made them, it was pretty eye opening to what quality woodworkers are actually worth… and it’s a lot 😂
That is not a charcuterie board. That is a weapon 😂😂.
Amazing job bro
If I ever had a reason to use a board like that, $500 seems exceptionally reasonable. I’d probably make my own at that point tho. Take long, but I have access to decent woodworking tools. Haha
8 to 900,000? That's quite the price range.
Use your brain for christ sake. 8....900.... 1000
Thought there was more to beeing an artist than grinding wooden planks
Might as well tell michelangelo theres more to art than chipping away at rocks huh?
Nice work, but I can't afford to pay that much.
Making the board is easy. Finding the suckers is the hard.
As someone who lives in Naples, he isn’t kidding.
$900,000!!!!
I’d loveee long form content also!! Yes please!
What blades are you using in your jigsaw? Cutting through stock that thick, mine bend, or warp a bit, never cutting perfectly straight.
This is to woodworking, what paint by numbers is to art.....
Justifying an exorbitant price for a piece of wood you did a few days of work on by saying other places charge 1,000 is outrageous. 500 is never gonna be a decent price and 1,000 is just idiotic.
Beautiful
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breckenridge mentioned 🤝
Ill be honest. $500 sounds cheep, not because i think a board should cost $900.
Its because for the amount of work and overhead there seems to be in this i dont see how one could survive unless they could somehow sell $700 boards every day
Do you got like an online store or something? I’d like to check out some of your projects unless you make on demand. This is my second video of yours that I e watched so I was just asking
Dude finding wood never been this hard and expensive... what happend after covid idk exactly but wood=gold nowadays
Honestly I just want to learn to do this for fun but a little extra money would make it easier
The "head" end of the board kind of reminds me of the behemoth from Vita Carnis.
For a board of that size, $500 is great. I've seen people trying to sell little bullshit boards for 3-500.
What is the goop you put on it that make it all gorgeous like that?!
would you consider making a guitar body? for example an explorer body shape or les paul shape?
Your work is gorgeous. God bless you. But alas I will never be able to afford your work.
Homie trying so hard not to use disparaging language against the type of people who go to a rich people resort town and buy an $800 piece of wood
I had no idea there were that many crazy people in the world.
That’s basically selling a board every 1-2 days with only missing 4 days of sales a month.. ain’t gonna happen
Its insane how underpaid construction workers are while these types of work ask for so much money
Hey, how did your jigsaw cuts turn out so straight? My blades always tend to bend in or out despite how carefully I cut.
What are you using as a finish at the end step there? Mineral oil?
What that board called