Originally Posted By: E.Y.Davis

I've never been a big arts & crafts type guy, but I like the idea of making things, and of craftsmanship. So, I recently took a month long course on basic woodworking (with hand tools--no power tools). Anyway, it opened my eyes to a whole culture of people who not only make everday things by hand, from scratch, they actually enjoy doing it... and not for profit, but for fun.


I have a friend who got into woodworking as a hobby and now he has his own store on Etsy. He mostly makes spoons, but he also found out there's a market for hand-made wooden tops. Like the kind you spin on a table and then stare at like a retard until it stops spinning.

My money-making suggestion was to buy some steak knife blade blanks and then make some custom wooden handles for them. Foodies would buy that kind of shit up fast, but he thought it was a boring idea. Whenever he makes me something, he'll give me a list of 8-10 woods to choose from and invariably, I will pick the most expensive wood in the list. I know nothing about wood.
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