Because we’re secretly amazing artists who just decided to build furniture?? Definitely not…(Ha! let’s be honest we’re both nerds who decided to pick up a pencil). Nope, we got into sketching furniture because we learned that our clients really liked it and it got us all on the same page of what the piece was…
If you’ve watched or scrolled past any of our content lately (ehhh…like in the last 8 months I guess…) you’ll probably see one recurring theme in all of it – WE’RE MOVING! Yep. We both got brand new jobs and we are packing up our entire lives and moving across the country. Isn’t that a…
We do a lot of talking on our YouTube channel about being efficient with how and what you sell in your woodworking business. Honestly, the majority of that is due to the fact that we (and so many woodworkers like us) have full-time jobs and do this “maker” thing on the side. For example –…
In this post we discuss all of our tools, the order we bought them in, and how they helped us make a decision to start our woodworking business!
So, “Does Price Vary by Location?” It’s the first comment on our videos where we do a price breakdown: “I could never sell for that price in my area… people just don’t want to spend that much” We get comments and DMs asking this underlying question a lot: Does price vary based on your location?…
This is the modern sliding barn door that we built out of plywood in a herringbone pattern for a realtor in our area.
This was a farmhouse desk we made for a friend that we use as an example of how to price your work. The structure works for pricing almost all woodworking projects that you would like to sell to someone.
This was our entry into the 2018 Rockler plywood challenge where we used only one sheet of plywood to make a modern coffee table with a herringbone pattern and hairpin legs.
Isn’t it always just the little things that hang us up in this skill of woodworking?! Figuring out how to use your tools just perfectly so that when you have to take off 1/8″ of material from the end of a board it doesn’t actually turn into 1/4″, placing tiny screws in just the right…
So we got a little ahead of ourselves. Let me explain how…. It all started when we were going through what we call our “hickory phase”. We were obsessed with hickory and the way the grain looked and the overall color and look it gave when paired with metal features (hence our other blog post…
