I tried making money with woodworking. Here’s the TRUTH.
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- I watched a video by @SaltyWoodworking where he went over how he has made money building and selling cedar planter boxes and I figured I might as well give it a shot and see if I could make a few bucks building these as well. Watch until the end to hear my results.
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Don't feel bad keep up the good work, it will come around
I appreciate the honesty and being straightforward. You earned a new Sub
Seems like we both just started channels and built a planter box 😂
Hope your channel goes well and the planters sell. Keep up the good work.
Let them sit in the garage a few days first, then start the milling. They cupped because they acclimated to their new environment, and that’s when you want to plane them. You’ll be able to take out that cupping and twisting with the planer. It looks good though.
That’s great advice. I appreciate it! I’ll definitely do that next time
@@AndrewVulgan twist requires a sled to keep the board still as it goes through the planer to remove otherwise it will simply rock as the twist goes under the blades. But you would be better off to keep weight on the boards while they dry. That will make a big difference in how flat they dry
Im glad someone is telling the truth! At the time, my local marketplace, Craigslist, OfferUp and fb pages did not have any cedar planters or any wood planter listed. I made a similar style to this and a bench style. I started listing them in early February (I’m in AZ, our growing season is almost all year lol). I have only sold 3 of the bench style. I live in a larger city here in AZ so there’s no shortage of people.
I didn’t sell any either. One piece of feedback I kept getting was “they’re kind of small”. I’m in a small town but I think you’re right the market is flooded with these. Keep at it man, something will catch on
Thanks for the video. When I build that style of planter, I cut the fence picket into 1.75 inch strips to deal with the curl. It takes longer at the saw but it makes putting together the planter easier. I also save the straight pickets for the legs which I assemble first, then add the strips. I have sold about 20 of them on Facebook marketplace. Just for reference, they sell for about $40 in San Jose, CA, for a planter that is a bit bigger than yours. good luck!
I have made five of the tapered planters and sold two. That was last year. I live in a rural area and a lot of people just make stuff their selves. Planters,cutting boards and such , the market is flooded with those.
I do pretty well making similar boxes. I go on my county's "Buy, Sell & Trade" groups offering a "special price for batch run". I always get more sales than I want.
I’ve made a ton of these things. I got into the game too late as well. I had a pile of them sitting around. The market was saturated with them. I did discover that I could do one more thing to them and before I knew it, they all sold out. I added an embellishment to the sides. It made my planter boxes stand out from the rest. I’m in the south, so it was a hit.
You may have come in at the end of the season. I sold mayne at the beginning of the season, and it has dwindled down to almost nothung now
Thanks for the brutal honest info. Its what I figured, planterboxes likely oversaturated market and the top guys that build up bussiness have been at the top for years. Maybe if you find a project that isnt oversaturated which can cause you to blink out on the sale sites to gain some recognition, once you have that you can go on do more generic builds.
As someone with not too much room for investment and working with mostly a range of hand tools I figure I just make what I can use myself, try to sell it if it doesnt I keep it and dont make another. Else repeat the procces.
Great strategy! I tend to do the same thing.
It’s hard to sell them in my area also. But we have a short planting season.
I’m with you, woodworking is a hobby for me. Making stuff to sell or because people ask takes all the fun out of it for me. Is just not worth it. I have a real job, and the videos that claim “big profits “ are just enticing you to watch just for their own gain. Good job on the planter , looks good 👍🏻
I like to stack the pickets and them dry, if not, after you put them together, they dry leave gaps in between the panels. I've sold a bunch. Take good pictures, and I've sold mostly farmhouse style planters. In my area I sell them for 45 dollars each on market place.
Nice planter box, but my question would be was, how are you marketing your boxes? I hope that you made more than just one, so that maybe you could take really nice pictures with different flowers, colors etc?
I think also, that if you are to "batch" out these planter boxes, your builds could got faster and in turn, cost you less to make..
Good luck!
Finally someone with experience like me!😂
Sorry ..... couldn't help you with your assult-bike-seat problem, despite I'm from bike-country (The Netherlands).
A great video Andrew!!
Thanks!
Same for me. I just did a trade show yesterday and didn't sell even one. I made some of these too. I didn't try online cause I don't want to ship them.
I sell mine on Marketplace and at the end of my driveway everyday for 20.00 each. Keeps me busy and it only cost 7.00 to make one. I can knock one out in 32 minutes from first cut to last Brad nail.
If I were able to make and sell 20 of these each month under these conditions I would be a very happy man.
But why is everybody making the same type of planter boxes?
How many boards you use for 1 planter? Where I live they are $2.98 each and I use 3 per planter
@@slanwar I use just under 3. They cost 3.46 minus military discount. 3.09 a board. So 9.27 to make one. But I always have scraps left over from other projects, so I don't include those in the price. I'm in St. Louis, prices aren't the best.
That’s awesome. I’ll probably try again next season. Earlier this time
I like the music. Too each his own. 😊
Me too!
Nice job mate, recently started woodworking myself, left it a bit late (45). One of the first things suggested to me to make was a planter, yours looks great, did you make more than ome? Maybe colour them different for the photos? Or stage them in different settimgs, once you get your first sale im sure word will spread 👍👍
How much are you selling them for? If you dont minf me asking anyway
If you avoid the clamps altogether and just use brads and glue, you'll speed up your process. Also, make 3-4 at a time. Batching them out will make the time per unit much lower. And don't forget that these are planter boxes and not fine furniture, so no need for perfection. The hardware store near me sells mass produced versions for 50-60 bucks! I sell a slightly different version for 35-50 depending on the size.
If where you live has seasonal changes and cold winters, you can make pretty awesome profit making frost covers. It's a stupid simple project that uses fence pickets and a couple of cheap hinges. Check them out and make some money!
Good luck with your channel and remember to keep having fun!
It works if you get all your wood free, and your labor is free.
For sure.
I built a few small ones like yours and a few big ones at 35 +/- " high x 2 ' wide x 3' long. Not a single small one sold but 12-14 of the big ones sold and I made a few at 4' long. Sadly, the design on the larger one did NOT hold up to the weight of the dirt and I had to replace a few of them that I had sold. I had been skeptical of the durability of the build but did it anyway considering I saw other youtubers and local sellers using the same build design on the bigger ones. Anyway, after my first collapse I started building them with pressure treated lumber for the frames and lined with cedar pickets. I used a 2x6 ripped in half for legs and 2x6 ripped down to 3 1.5 x 1.5 for the rest of the frame. BTW, all the cedar builds I only brad nailed and glued, no need for clamping. On the PT frames I didn't trust the glue with brad nails because of the much higher moisture content so I used glue and deck screws for the frame and brad nails for the cedar liner. So I sold about a dozen of the 3' for $100 each and a couple 4' for $125 All on FBMP but sales dropped off a cliff later in May. Next year I will have some built and listed by the end of March. This year I didn't start till April.
I build a lot of different things and never use clamps except when glue is the only joinery. Brad nails or screws act as clamps.
Yeah if I do it again I’ll definitely start earlier in the year. Good ideas on how to make them stronger.
I advertise on market place then build when you get an order. Or always keep 1 or 2 in stock no more. I build on orders only I’ll give the customer 1 day to pickup , but this is me. I’m asking 30.00 for a medium size planter. Let me tell you I live in a small town in Michigan and everyone and their brothers are selling planters but I still sold around 30 or so. I had few orders of 2 to 5 at a time.
You’re not going to get rich doing this.
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Finally someone not trying to explain to the community that they sold $10,000 in a weekend of planter boxes and it only cost them $0.38😂
I've yet to see a person taken to consideration the fact that they had to build a shop, drive to the store multiple times, unload load unload, go to a craft show for a weekend spend money for the table, all the time needed to set up the tables repack and unpack everything and apparently nobody pays themselves any money because everyone keeps saying labor is free😂😂😂
Suggestion....don't clamp them down to the table. That waste time and money. Clamp it and set it to the side and move to the next step. P.S. the music made me feel like I was in a Gynaecologist office with my best friend's wife. Leave the music out. No music is better music.
Yeah if I do it again I’ll change a lot of things. Hopefully won’t have to clamp at all.
Just remember one thing, do you and don't worry about others. Suggestions are great, just don't take them the wrong way. After 21 years of making sawdust, I'm still learning.
Same here @melodywilson5255 .... you've gotta start somehow ...... practise makes perfect (so they say). Not everyome can buy the coolest tools. But at least, we've got a hobby. I wish Andrew all the best and surely he will sell some stuff in the future, just keep on going. And also Melody ....... don't give up yet.
Greetings from the Netherlands.
Btw. I subscribed because I'm curious what you DIY's in the near future ..... thanks for this one. You'll get the hang of it.
Thank you for the encouragement! I’m just getting started and there will be a lot more coming from me!