Woodworking 101: Simple Woodworking Projects that Will Make You Money
If you love woodworking and are looking to make a little extra money off of your skills, the projects below might find you a few customers.
17/09/2021
Are you handy with wood tools? Or do you just
love making things with your hands? If so, a
woodworking hobby can easily become a lucrative
side-hustle, especially if you produce quality
work and you know how to market yourself.
Woodworking is an old art form, and perhaps
one of the oldest known to humans. In fact, the
world’s oldest known wooden statue,
the Shigir
Idol, is around 12,500 years old and stands
around 9 feet tall.
But
modern woodworking hasn’t changed all that much
since the time of our Stone Age ancestors.
Really, the only thing that has changed is the
use of modern tools, but surprisingly, many
woodworking enthusiasts choose to use
traditional carving tools even in our modern
age.
If you love working with wood, and
you’re looking to make a little extra money off
of your carpentry skill and artistic talents,
the following projects might find you a few
customers.
Stairs
Believe it or not, staircase building is a
unique artform, and these carpentry projects are
in high demand. The fact is, building a
staircase requires a bit of engineering skills
and the precise use of woodworking tools.
You can also easily make money by building
deck stairs. Because while many people might
know how to build a deck, many don’t know
how to
build deck stairs.
All in all, there are
several ways you can offer your services when it
comes to staircase building. Some homeowners
even want each individual step to be hand-carved
with ornate embellishments. And you can even
monetize your unique skill for building railings
or intricately carved banisters.
When it
comes to stairs, you’re really only limited by
your creativity and skill, but you do need to
possess both to create a beautiful set of
stairs.
Furniture
While we all have the convenience of modern
life, some of the things that we’ve been
accustomed to using aren’t built with nearly the
same level of quality and craftsmanship that
they were in years past.
Today, you can
order any piece of furniture you want online and
have it delivered in a couple of days. But where
you have convenience, you sacrifice in quality.
And you’ll likely have to go through the
painstaking process of putting whatever piece of
furniture you bought together by yourself.
Furniture making used to be a lucrative
trade before the modernization of the 20th
century took hold. In fact, many craftsmen made
their entire living off of making furniture upon
request. And you can still do this today with
the aid of modern tools.
Where some
people love convenience, others are much more
willing to pay a bit more for quality. So if
wooden furniture making is your thing, you could
easily take it to the next level and make a few
dollars on the side.
Plaques & Mounts
Wooden plaques are one of the simpler
forms of wood creation to produce. But you have
to have an eye for detail and a hand for
precision.
Ideally, you also need to
understand the
nature of wood as well in order
to manipulate it to your desire while building a
plaque or an ornate wooden mount.
People
still pay money for personalized plaques and
mounts. Even trophy bases can be made along the
same lines and delicately carved for a note of
personalization.
Some of today’s plaques
lack the craftsmanship and luster of times gone
by, when one person would spend several hours
planing down a piece of wood, sanding it to a
fine finish, then hand-carving each script
letter, one by one. And people will still pay
good money for this service even today.
Woodworking is a timeless craft. And though all wood sculptures and crafts will ultimately fade away and turn to dust, the need for woodworking craftsmen will always be around as long as humans use wood for art and structure building.