5 More Woodworking Projects That Sell - Make Money Woodworking- (Episode 26)

welcome back guys to another episode of Smalls that sell and for those of you that are new to the channel and wondering exactly what we're talking about it's all about breaking down trending items from the big box stores and turning them into lowcost high-profit items that you can put your twist to it and sell like crazy it's items like this galvaniz sided crate these are hot these are trending right now and they are wanting a fortune for them and so that's where I come in I'll teach you how to build this for a super cheap price so you can maximize your profits on anything that you sell I'll be covering this build just a little bit later in the video so let's go and hop into it okay so this first one I've been seeing on several different sites and if you've been following this series you know that that is a red flag for a super hot item and I have to admit these things are pretty cool they go by different names I'm just going to call it a sliding shelf the way that it's actually built is for each one of these shelves to be adjustable so far I've only found one problem with the several different companies that makes these and that is that the average price for these things is $250 so for this build I really wouldn't consider a small I'm going to say that it's a medium but it's super easy to build the one thing that's going to be a little different about this than some of our other projects is that you do not want to use a softwood for this so our Pine builds our picket builds that's kind of out for this one so I would use a hardwood of some type for this they're using Oak and then some of these have used cherry or walnut and the main reason why you need to use a hardwood is because this entire shelving unit is being supported by the backboard against the wall and then the joinery in the corners and we'll get into that here in a minute because it's actually a very important part of this build so I'm going to break down the most common style that I have found of this which is going to have three boards running horizontally and then with a slim vertical frame so let's just start with what they're using for shelving boards everyone that I've seen they've used the exact same material that they've made their support frame as the shelves well that's the first thing that I would change up say that if I use Oak strips to make my frame then maybe I should throw some contrast in there for the shelves and the shelves really don't have to be a hardwood because they're being supported by the hardwood frame okay so what I figured out is that each one of these shelves are 3/4 of an inch thick 16 in long and 5 in wide so the shelves are actually done once you have those Dimensions so now let's go ahead and break down the most important part of this entire thing the frame so just to make sure that we had plenty of support I'm going to say that this Frame is made out of 2 and 1/2 in material that is 3/4 of an inch thick now for you pallet project Warriors out there this is going to be a perfect build cuz a lot of times on those heavy duty pallets you're going to have 34 of an inch oak and a lot of times you're stripping on top it's going to be 5 in wide but regardless of where you get your material to build this thing the most important part of this is going to be the joinery and in almost every single style that I've seen of this they have used the exact same type of joinery it looks like a type of single tooth box joint right on the very ends and the reason why they're using that specific joint besides let's say just pin nails and glue is because that's a really strong joint for this build this entire unit is 25 in tall and 6 in deep so if you're going to be using this type of joinery your two top pieces will need to be 6 in long and your front and back boards will need to be the full 25 in long and then for the top and bottom boards you would need to measure in 3/4 of an inch mark across your board and then remove material on both sides of that board leaving a 3/4 of an inch tab or a tongue in the very center and then to made up the front and the backs that's all that you would had to do is use that tongue as a template on the top of your vertical boards Trace that out and then remove the material in the center 3/4 of an inch deep now you can do the material removal several different ways if you have a dato stack it's going to make this a piece of pie you can make a simple table saw jig for making box joints honestly that's what I would do if you did not have a datal stack because they are super easy to make and really the only other option is going to be cutting this out by hand and then using a chisel to square everything up which is fine if you're just making one or two but if you want to mass-produce these things go ahead and spend the 30 minutes to make a box joint jig so if you've decided to go with the Box joint method you have your ends cut but before we assemble this thing we need to cut the notches on our 25in boards that the shelves are actually sliding in so that's what gives these shelves the ability to be be adjusted they're just sliding back and forth in these 3/4 of an inch notches that they have cut into the inner sides of these boards so I take my 225 in boards it looks like maybe 4 in from the top 4 in from the bottom and one in the very center so that's where we'll actually be putting our notches again if you have a DAT stack on your miter saw you'd raise it up a qu of an inch and either using a table saw sled or a miter gauge to slide the board across making these notches but you can also do this with your miter saw or even a circular saw if you're using the miter saw you would set your depth stop so that the blade is it's only cutting a/4 of an inch deep and just slide your board down between cuts until you get to 3/4 of an inch now let's say that you're using a circular saw that's all that you would do is just set your blade depth to a quar of an inch I would use a framing square against the edge of my saw that way it keeps my blade straight and then make these Cuts removing one blade thickness at a time until you're at your 3/4 of an inch Mark so never look at a project and say oh I don't have the tools to make this happen well what did people do before there were dat stacks and all these other fancy tools they figured it out almost every single one of these new fancy tools if you follow it back it leads to a basic hand tool the table saw is essentially a circular saw turned upside down then the circular saw took the place of a Handa so you get what I'm talking about just because you don't have a specific tool don't lie to yourself and say I can't do projects because I don't have fancy tools yes you can so back to this shelf we have all of our notches cut our joinery is cut now we just need to glue these things up on their ends and if it were me I'd actually drill a hole through the side or through the top and bottom center tongues and attach a screw or Dow making sure to lock everything in cuz again all the weight's going to be transferred to the board in the back so with that being said whenever you go to mount this it needs to be secure in the back now there were a couple of these that had Keyhole cutouts where you just slide this thing over some screws but to me that may be just a little bit thin I would actually use an easier method and inside The Notches where the shelves will be sliding I pre-drill a hole in each one of those on the board that's going against the wall and make sure to mount this into a stud once everything is mounted you can slide your boards in from the end and you're set now as far as how much will this cost you to make it's really just going to depend on where you're getting your wood but I will guarantee you no matter what type of wood that you're wanting to use you're not going to come anywhere near $250 and with a couple of Jigs and just a little bit of creativity you could pump these babies out and blow your competition out of the water so if you enjoy videos like this and you do not want to miss an episode make sure to hit the Subscribe button and your bottom can't say subscribe make sure to hit the subscri make sure to hit the Subscribe button make sure to hit my logo and the bottom right hand corner which is also the Subscribe button which is also the sub which is also the sub which is also the which is also the Subscribe which is also the Subscribe button and it also may be interesting and it may also be interes in watching me learn how to speak this next one I've seen on several sites usually they come in sets of two and that is this galvanized SED crate okay we've talked about it in the past crates are hot crates are always hot because they can be used on people's porches they can be used inside of their houses really the possibilities are endless but what caught my eye about this one is that so many stores were selling these things and they were getting 75 bucks for a set of two now the cost to build one of these things is a little harder to pinpoint because of the galvanized sheeting one of these fullsize sheets is $20 at your local Big Box store but you're only using a tiny section so you can make tons of these things out of just the one sheet actually made this one and the matching larger one just out of some scrap that I had laying around here I'll be using the smaller 14-in long one as an example if the set I made a larger one to match that was a couple of inches wider and longer and that's all that you would do to make the larger one is the dimensions that I'm about to give you just add a couple of inches to your parts and the assembly will all be the same and as always I'm about to teach you step by step on how to build this if you're a plans in the hand type of person head over to my website I'll throw a link in the description so for the wood for this I bought a 1x8 by 8T if you're going to make two of these of this size go ahead and get a 1x10 cuz I actually ended up using just a little bit over half of my board so to start off with a 1x8 is actually 7 and 1/4 in wide so go a and rip that down to an even 7 in wide then once you have your board ripped down to 7 in we'll go ahead and cut off two parts 8 in long and that will be our ends while we're working with the ends we can go ahead and put the handles in so to make this handle is super easy from the top measured down an inch and a half made my mark and then at 2 and 3/4 I made a Mark that will give me my opening thickness from the sides of my boards I measured in an inch and 1 half from each side so once you have all of that marked out just connect those in a square and now you have your area laid out but you don't want the square look you want this rounded over look in the corner you can make that corner cut with a jigsaw even easier just use an inch and a quarter fener or spade bit and that's all that I did was Dill a hole all the way through my board on each side of the handle once those two holes were drilled I just took a jigsaw and cut straight across and connected those two holes making this handle then you would just repeat that for your second board so with our two ends cut and prepped now we can assemble our sides then to make the side panels I took the rest of my board and cut it down down to an inch and 1/2 strips so once you have your inch and 1/2 strips you need to cut four of those that are 11 in long it's going to be the top and the bottom of the frame and then you'll cut four that are 7 in long and that's going to be our two sides so once I had those cut I wanted to just assemble this outside frame first and to connect these I put two pocket hole screws on each side of the top and bottom board and that gave me my outer frame as far as this V design in the middle I just ripped some of my 1 and 1/2 in stock down to 3/4 of an inch then put a 46° angle on each side of these leaving this part 6 and 3/4 of an inch long from tip to tip I just used a little bit of CA and wood glue and glued those into place so at this point we have our two panels and our two ends now for the galvanized material like I said at the beginning you can pick it up at your big box stores it's about $20 for a sheet but it's a big sheet and you're only going to be needing two sections that are 5 and 3/4 of an inch wide by 12 in long once you have those cut with your panel facing down just lay your galvanized metal on top pre-drill and screw this in place around the frame using half inch screws so now the hardest part the side panels are complete to connect the side panels to the end that's all that I did was take my two ends drilled pocket holes on each side ins set it into my two panels then use pocket hole screws to attach these and if you like you don't even have to use pocket hoose screws for that step you can just slide this into place and just use some brad nails and glue and then for the bottom I'm still using my 1 and 1/2 in strips they're 12 1/2 in long and I need three of those I slid those into place with one on each side and one in the very center then attached them to my in board using wood glue and Brad nails and that's all there is to it and to size up that's all that you would have to do is just add a couple of inches of length and width to those Dimensions all right so you know that big pile of cut offs that you just look at and you're like well one day I'll be able to find something useful for that well today is the day check this out I've seen these on a couple of different sites and it's a genius idea actually they're pretty much taking what I would consider scrap cut offs and they're taking what is hot right now which is floating shelves and they're making small floating shelves out of their scraps and on top of that the average price for a set of three of these is 30 bucks so $10 a piece for a piece of scrap so as an example of just how easy this is I went to my someday pile and pulled out this piece okay or really it's brother looks almost the same but I made this check it out so this was a cut off from another project that I couldn't throw away and that's all that I did to shake things up with it a little bit because every one of these that I've seen have been perfectly Square was I just ran a router around the edge and put a little Cove in it and no you do not have to have Walnut and Cherry and things like that to make an awesome looking shelf that will sell the only thing that you need to do is get creative with it and if you wanted to actually get away from the square look all together how awesome would it be if this was actually a rounded over design so by using two simple Parts you can essentially turn anything into a floating shell and to mount it that's all that you'd have to do is find where your stud is at I would pre-drill and then you just screw this thing in in once it's flushed against the wall you're set and the two things that you're going to need to turn any piece of scrap wood into a floating shell is a stainless steel te- nut which is about 12 cents a piece and then a hanger bolt so the hanger bolt is threaded on one end just like a screw and then on the opposite end there's boat threads that will thread into a t- nut as far as installing these t- nuts it's a piece of pie since this is a/4 of an inch t-nut I'm going to size up a 16th of an inch and use a 5/16 bit to drill the hole in the back so that the teut will slide in and you see how put a piece of tape on the end and that's all that I use that for was to Mark the length of the threads on the bolt hanger so I know how deep to drill the hole since this is not very deep you could probably freehand it and get it pretty straight but if you're making several of these just go ahead and use a bit guide that way that you know that your shelf will be perfectly straight once you screw it into the wall so once you have your hole drilled you would just place your t-nut over that hole and then Hammer this in the reason why you need to hammer these t-nuts are actually made with these four little teeth on the Sid to actually dig into the wood that way whenever you're tightening things up it doesn't just spinning the hole if you'd like to really secure this thing in there you could put some CA glue on the inside before you inserted the t- nut and it would lock everything together but honestly the teeth alone do a great job of holding things into place I'll throw the links in the description for both these bolt hangers and the te- nuts the Bol hangers about 39 cents a piece the t-nuts are right around 12 13 cents a piece so for a little over 50 cents and a piece of scrapwood this is a money making project if you decide to route your piece out like I did let's put a little thought into this oh shelves that people hang on the wall are not below ey level usually they're a little bit higher so what I would do is actually put my routing on the bottom of the board cuz essentially that's what's going to be seen now that's just what I would do but the cool thing about being a maker is you can do whatever you want so for those of you that have not checked out the new website make sure to do that this will be a place where you can get updates about what's going on in our community as well as a place to pick up super cool merch like this shirt or even leather Patch hats again this new s's at Matthew peach.com or I'll throw the link in the description so there was one type of an item that I noticed that was on the trending sections of every one of these sites while I was doing the research for this video and that is console tables almost every one that I looked at were super easy to build and they all had a pretty high price tag so the reason why people love console tables is because they are slam that's the way that they're designed they're designed to put under a frame picture or a piece of art so by having that slim design that cuts way down on our material and cost so this is the one that I chose to break down for you guys just because I want to show you how simple the this thing is to build but what I would do if I were going to make some of these to sell is just to go online type in console table get some different styles different ideas masch those all together and create your own unique design that way that the only place that someone can buy something like that is from you but again this table caught my eye because of how simple it would be to build and it was $108 and you may be thinking 108 bucks for a table that's really not bad if you take a close look at this check out what is made out of look at the legs you see the rounded Corners those legs are 3 and 1/2 in wide those are 2x4s okay so they have literally taken one 2x4 because the length of these legs are only 23 in long so out of one 2x4 you can get your four legs and still have plenty of room for your cut offs now they didn't even attempt to square these legs up to take off that rounded corner just do the extra step take the extra time and just cut off an eighth of an inch from each side get rid of those 2x4 corners and would actually clean this look up a lot so we know what the legs are made out of but what about the rest well the rest could be anything because they have distressed this and the distressing is one of the key points of what makes this sale so this is going to be marketed as a primitive Americana or a distressed look or Farmhouse look you can word it however you want but they pretty much all mean the same you're a palletwood person palletwood it's perfect so this entire console is 26 in long and 8 in deep that's telling me that the entire width of the top is 8 in but if you look really close that's not a solid 8 in board that's made up of multiple boards so if you're using pallet wood then you can use multiple size boards if it were me I'd take a few fence pickets because they're only a couple bucks a piece I'd rip each one of those down to 4 in and I could use that material for every other piece of this project so for the top I would just take two of those butt those together you could either attach those from the bottom or the top this is supposed to be rustic or primitive so there's really no way to completely mess this up before we get to the top we have to have a base what I would do to quickly assemble this base take your 2x4 let's say that the edges are cut off of this one I laay two down that are 23 in Long on a flat surface take one of my 4in boards that I cut and I'm actually going to be using that as the apron that goes across the top I would lay it on top of my 2x4 and overlap it by about an inch and then maybe throw some wood glue in there and then just screw this down then while everything is still flat and your top apron is attached let's go ahead and attach this bottom board I'd measure up 2 in from the bottom and then attach this the exact same way that you attached your top board and once it's fastened on both sides you now have your front panel and then you would make another one of of those identical okay and that's going to be your back panel so now you have both your front and back panels built so what about the sides how do you connect these two together so the inside of both panels will look something like this that's all that you'd have to do in this case is to take another piece of your board that is cut 4 in long this one's a little bit longer but you get the point here and then attach it just like this from the inside just butt it right up put some wood glue in there tack it in with a couple brad nails and then maybe pre-drill throwing a couple screws if you want and with your two top boards on you actually have overhang on both sides giving it this inset apron look and then for the bottom you would just take another 4-in board and connect the two panels and now your two panels are connected and you have this thing all framed out and then for the bottom shelf you would just continue to cut 4in long boards which will bring it even with the inside of the 2x4s and just run those across the bottom in the opposite direction of your top this whole project is super simple you probably assemble this entire table in less than 30 minutes and have less than 10 bucks in the entire build the only thing that would really increase your price much would be the paint that you decide to use but really this would be a perfect project just for some old paint that you had laying around again this is distressed so once that paint dries you're going to sand it down anyway and rough it up now for me even if I made my legs out of 2x4s and fence pickets for all my aprons the top I would actually leave natural maybe to stress up the bottoms kind of like what they have here but I would want to add some contrast to this top so if I were doing it I would probably use some reclaim Pine just because that's what I have around here or if you had pallet wood go and sand that pallet wood down a bit let those natural colors come out and be a contrasting color to the rest of this build but regardless of how you decide to do this keep in mind on the low side these things are selling for 108 bucks I just showed you how to build one for less than 10 so you have plenty of room there to add in some creativity and still keep a crazy high profit margin so for this next one I'm not going to spend a lot of time on because we have essentially covered this in several different videos just in different shapes and the OPB is trying to play Cupid this Valentine's Day with their heartshaped cheeseboard okay so we have seen these cheeseboards before we have talked about them we have talked about how their marketing strategy actually keeps the exact same product but changes the name from time to time and how they must be selling the heck out of this whole concept because they have created a design for this for every single holiday every single season so why not Valentine's Day this is a form of Decor okay this is a decoration and people that are into decorating their houses they will change this stuff out with every single season and holidays they have created an evergreen concept and they are milking it for all that it's worth but all of these that I have seen so far they super unique super cool and super easy to make now do I like these enough to pay $185 for one of these cheese boards no but I like them enough to make several of these for just a couple of bucks a piece and sell them for $50 but I'm not going to bore you with the details on how they have actually put all of this together because I've taught you this a a couple of times in the past so if you haven't seen that just check out a couple of my other videos apply that exact same concept to this you have a very expensive cheeseboard I just wanted to share this with you so that whenever you are creating unique items to sell think about how you can make it Evergreen for different seasons just like the old PB here this is a genius marketing move on their part and for this product as always thank you guys so much for watching I hope that you were able to take something away from that even if it was just a concept or a lesson but whatever you took from this video run with it apply it to your builds and create something awesome till next time guys we'll see you

Channel: Matthew Peech

Views: 300,831

Keywords: woodworking tips, woodworking hacks, compilation video, beginner woodworking, learn, how to, peech, matthew peech, matthew peech woodworking, matthew peach, peach woodworking, make money woodworking, how to make money woodworking, money woodworking, earn money woodworking, start woodworking business, woodworking projects that make money, how to make money, making money woodworking, starting a woodworking business, getting started woodworking, woodworking projects that sell

Id: LS9S0VnskPE

Length: 20min 34sec (1234 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 28 2024