Welcome! I just checked out your pinterest page and wow, your work is incredible! I'm a huge fan of woodworking as well. How long have you been woodworking? And how steep is the learning curve? I just followed you and hope you find some of my work interesting and follow me back!
Thanks. Woodworking is a great thing to do for yourself and those close to you. It's also fun for others but very difficult to make a living at it with the techniques I use. Takes too long to make it worthwhile unless someone wants to pay the price. Kind of a starving artist situation. I've been at it for about 3 years. Started with pallet wood to minimize the expense of making mistakes. Funny thing is nothing was thrown away or scrapped. I was shocked. Still have some of those pieces. Rest of it was given away as I moved onto nicer wood like cedar that I mill.
Have you tried selling your pieces much or just more so kept it for yourself/gifts? Ive seen some sites get crazy amounts for some of their products!
Some buddies and I started a longboard company where we made the longboards ourselves. It kind of dissolved, however I've got 3 orders right now from friends with two extra blank decks that I will try to sell.
I haven't actively tried selling. I started woodworking because I didn't want to buy new furniture or cabinets or pay for someone to do something for me and then not be what I really wanted. So, I do it myself. Recently got a sawmill so I can go from log to furniture.
I have sold a few things but I'm finding that it takes too long to produce something. So I end up working for pennies so to speak.
But really the point for me is I'm retired and don't want another business unless I have to.