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Change Wood Into Gold
By Stephen Bucaro
Today, everything is a cold plastic manufactured product. In the "old days", everything
was painstakingly hand-crafted from wood. People love the quality and warmth of
hand-crafted wood products. If you like to work with your hands, you can profit from the
demand for these products.
If you are inexperienced with woodworking, you can start by making simple scroll saw
puzzles and wood toys. You can see some examples of the type of products you can make at
home.att.net/~brad247 where Brad
sell's them for $4.00 to $9.00.
You will find free downloadable patterns at the
Skill Power Tools
Web site or you can purchase patterns like "The Little Choo Choo" at the
Wood Toys and Joys Web site.
When you get a little more skill, you can make the kind of products sold at the
Wood Expression's Web site. For
example, they sell a 19 x 21 inch oak shelf for $30.00. The
Wooden Word Art Web site
sells beautiful wood letter signs for $4.00 to $5.00. They also sell custom personalized
signs. Check out familysigns.com where
they sell cute crafty personalized wood signs for $10.00 and up.
When you advance to larger, higher quality work you might make products like those
offered by The Woodcrafting Co.
where they sell hardwood TV trays and display cases for $700.00 and more.
You will find hundreds of woodworking project plans at the
WoodcraftPlans.com web site for $10.00
and up. A good source for quality hardwoods, woodworking materials, power and hand tools,
is Woodworkers Source which
has stores in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona.
Tips for a wood craft products Web site:
 On your Web site,
highlight the fact that you can make custom and personalized wood craft products.
Customization is what puts your work a step above manufactured products, and allows you
to charge a premium price.
You can generate
extra profits by selling kits, patterns and instructions that let your fellow woodworkers
copy your wood craft products. You will be surprised how many people who bought a pattern
will return later to purchase a finished poduct.
It is very important
to display good pictures of your products on your web site, but one problem I frequently
find at wood craft product sites is a total disregard for Web page load times. Most
people access the web over a 56K dial-up connection. The size of a Web page, including
all the images displayed on the page, should be less than 200 KBytes.
People yearn for the quality and warmth of hand-crafted wood products. Don't limit your
sales to your Web site. Hand-crafted wood products are one of the premier items sold at
Web auction sites, craft fairs and craft malls. If you like to work with your hands, you
can turn wood into gold!
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