I Tried to Make MONEY Building and Selling the Simplest Coasters
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.พ. 2024
- I put "low cost high profit woodworking builds that sell" to the test. In this video, I test if you can make money by selling the simplest coasters.
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Nicely done.
A mod is buy a big sheet of thin cork. Make yourself a circle cutter out of a piece of thin metal tube and cut out circles. Glue them to your coasters.
Thanks for the tips! I'll look into it
Awesome!! I was selling coasters in my area 🇨🇦 for $15... I sold 1 set over a period of 6 months lol
HARD FACTS
That's the luck (or lack of) that I've been having. $16 per set and I've sold two sets in the past year. Location must make a difference.
@mrwashburn1964 ya i suppose. I did a craft market this past december for Christmas. Made a bunch of decor. Nobody was buyin. Hard to break into the market and find something people will spend money on. Im taking a stab at different types of things to see what will take off. Such a saturation of makers all making the same products right
I'm also in Canada and been making $10k per month for the past 6 years making coasters. I work about 3 days a month and spend the rest of the month perusing my hobbies and traveling. Try branching outside your local area.
@joseph7105 are you being sarcastic
Well done, thanks for sharing
Good stuff. Sometimes people get too wrapped up in appearances. Yeah the scrap drywall "table" and the TP rolls don't look pretty. The inverted sander doesn't look pretty. But they get the job done and just further proves that you dont need a shop full of stuff to make things. Will he get rich selling these coasters? Of course not. But he moved that little chuck of 4x4 out of the shop... keep up the good, practical, work!
I usually do not comment back to youtube videos but this one, if true, made sense in that it didn't look as though you were just attempting to make money on youtube. Simple and straight forward and no fancy machines. Will look forward to future videos.
Maybe your video is the thing I needed to see most in the last few days...
I live in Brazil and I'm completely in debt without knowing how I'm going to get out of this situation, and what I have most at home is pine wood from some pallets, stein for protection and varnish.
I'll be back in a few days to let you know if this worked here too.
Good luck to you man !
Good Luck, curious to hear how you did.
Also, I posted above about using Unused Flooring for coasters. it was Left over or cutoffs from Flooring my dad did and I had, you could possibly use that as well. I've even seen logs just cut up and used, similar to what was done here with the 4x4 block of wood.
Best of luck, we are all going back to nature!
Good luck 🍀 try making Mugs and cups maybe
Did it work?
Amazing, true video! Congrats from Portugal i will do this as well.
Great video and I'm glad to see you made some sales. I guess it depends on the market where you are located because I tried selling similar coasters in my area and all I got for all my social media marketing was crickets chirping. No one was interested.
Lovely. Well done 😊👌
I paint entire landscapes on coasters, then coat them in resin. It takes me hours and hours per single coaster, and I've yet to try selling them. The idea of selling them is really scary though because its like im putting my soul into them. Going to try a craft show and hopefully if i wear a cute dress and look really approachable people will be willing to put their beverages on my master pieces lol
Bring a wine glass, something pretty, to put on a coaster to show off
I'll buy a set!!😊
Wow. Gotta say, that wasn't the result I was expecting. Well done!
GOOD SHIT. . ..MANY THANK'S.
You need to spray them with water before final sanding to raise the grain otherwise the grain will pop up when they set a wet drink on them.
After the first coat of paint? Do you let it dry naturally or pat down with a towel?
If he sanded the first coat of polyurethane. Isn't that the same as if he popped the grain with water?
@@migratorygame7400 Yup!
Great idea! Where did you sell them? I once tried etsy but nobody was buying on there.
What grit sandpaper did you use?
add a touch to it. get a laser engraver and also advertise custom coasters.
Curious how did you list them locally?
Facebook Market? Or Craigslist?
I saw Peech's video too. To date I've sold just over 200 sets of six coasters at $20/ set on my website.
How and where are you marketing them and bringing that level of traffic to your website?
pry etsy and over 2 yrs. i watch peech and i guarantee he makes more from his pdf plans than actual sales. although his plans are good
Your ripping people off
@@geotj58 your opinion. 8f people will pay it, I'll take it.
@geotj58 $20 is ripping people off? You're either geriatric and don't understand what a dollar is these days, or you're huffing gas. Either way, that's a "flawed" opinion. You can't make a scrambled egg sandwich for someone for $20 these days.
Here is a trick, wet the wood with a little water, let dry! That will make the grain raise and after sanding smooth, one coat might finish them! ( instead of sanding it off! )
I am new to your channel. I like this straight forward video and the very basic set-up of everything. You did a great selling job. 30 CAND is about 20 Euros, I guess.
Nobody will pay so much for that here. Probably not even 10 Euros. But one never knows. Unfortunately, my mitre saw cannot handle 4X4s.
Where did you list them at?
What is the best website to list them on
how are the sales going for the coasters?
Hurray! A fellow Canadian! Your shop makes me laugh because it looks like mine! Can I ask what site you're using to sell?
Spray-on poly works great for small projects
Great stuff. Question: what kind of clamp is that on the mitre saw? Serious question! Thanks!
It comes with the saw
I love that your putting the cookies on a shelf that everyone can grab. Almost too perfect for who I once was
What online platform do you use?
Is wood water resistant?
I was wondering what site you used to sell them?
Where did you list them, so only locals see them?
The only time I make merch like coasters is if I have some all to rare time to kill and I have scrap which can not be used in another project.
Hello lookalike 😅 glad I came across your channel!
Thanks for sharing. I think to level up the coasters you could round over the edges with a router.
Good idea!!
Online sales = more eyes on your product local sales are always good but sketchy here in America 😂 never would I ever have someone come to my house to pick something up unless I know them well
That's interesting. I live in the 2nd - 3rd largest city in Georgia and I went to someone's house tonight, alone to pick up items I bought on Facebook Marketplace. I'm a 60 year old female and it was dark when I arrived so we see it's different in different areas.
@@psb12121 Yes, different neighborhoods. I got robbed twice, beaten up three times, had my car vandalized, my children kidnapped, and my house burned by an arsonist just on my way to work this morning (which is only 3 miles away from my previous home which just burned down).
@@YTubeSDD😂😂😂😂
You got robbed for a coaster? U might need to be a little more self aware bud@@YTubeSDD
House burned down for 5 dollar coasters maybe selling isnt your think. Id try going to work at amazon warehouse you will be safe working 16 hour days robot guards surrojnd the building @@YTubeSDD
Hmm. This makes me think about finally buying a miter saw (tiny shop of little more than 1x2 meters in the garage).
Just curious, what size blade is that on the saw?
Looks to be a 12" chop saw. A 10" won't make it all the way thru, I don't believe. But the 12" saws and blades are very expensive, and not often found used. I like a circular saw more than a chop saw, you can do more, they can be found used, and cheap.
@@richardmccann4815 Thanks for the input. That was my hunch, but I haven't "played with" a miter saw enough to know.
I may have to attempt this with a circular saw as I have one of those.
Thanks, again, for the information.
Sounds like you've also been watching Matthew Peech.
Yep. Sounds like he did! Lol
Respect!
Coasters make great gifts, but as far as selling them, there's no telling if it will work or not. Plain coasters like the ones you made don't seem to sell at all in my area. People want either something laser cut or wood burned into. So it honestly depends on where you are. Unfortunately, coasters like cutting boards/charcuterie or cheese boards is a saturated market in many areas/ You have really research your selling cost for where you are. I've seen 6 packs of coasters going from $15 to $35 a set depending on what is on the coasters & if there's a holder for them.
Most “woodworking influencers “ say YOU CAN make money- not that YOU WILL make money” - you COULD make $10,000 making these pieces of cut scraps- you probably WON’T - but Hope is worth something….
False hope isn't good. It's hard to get noticed when everyone is selling the same thing on etsy
Hope is the denial of reality.
@@deesmith6363that’s a pretty depressing way to live. But you do you homie
Who the fck cares what an influencer says. Take the advice from hardened sellers who know what they're talking about.
The problem with 4x4 is that you're cutting it on the end grain. If you were to cube it, then cut the slices in a way not to expose the end grain you would be better off. I'm really surprised they are staying together. When I cut at the end grain they tend to just crumble.
Router the corners 1/8, agree with the other comment to not use end grain as the rings can just fall apart. 4x4 square from the top. Sprayed with water and then mixture of bees wax and mineral oil. But I like your idea..
So I'm not the only one who has taken a palm sander and turned it upside down to do small objects! Be fun to show this to my brother after I just had to do the same for a guard mini-bar [they wanted as cheap a coaster as possible]
haha, I think every one has done this at least once.
Re oiling etc...try screwing a number of screws through a board...like a bed of nails works a treat..
You should definitely have brought up about how much material was removed and how big the piece that you started from with was so someone else could theoretically do the math and figure out amount with a full 4 x 4 of either 8 ft or 10 ft
Also I would say sell them for 10 to 15 USD and then multiply it by that
Because with an 8-ft board at a quarter inch per coaster and if I take out about 7 in Max thanks to the removed material because I know some miter saw blades are anywhere from a 16th to 1/8 inch thick that's 22.25 units of four coasters a piece selling them for 15 a set that is 335 USD and with 20 that's $445
So at a $10 towards $30 4x4 board that is still anywhere from a 300 to 400 profit not including potential shipping cost and with four of the 8 ft boards you're still making 1200 minimum before shipping costs are included and in some states that's a whole month's worth of rent in like 3 days worth of work maximum spending a few hours at a time knocking a crap ton of them out and if I take a few extra days with a wood burning tool and a metal stencil to make sure the design is always the same and maybe hit them with some stain I can easily sell them for 25 min for a set of four that is roughly $2,200 a little over with the 8 ft at a quarter inch again this is before shipping costs and if I filled the carved out area with colored epoxy resin I can even sell them for 30 bucks and with the same 8 ft and quarter inch thick that gives me just under $2,700 and I can go to the lobby of the hobby or Menards to pick up pouring resin for anywhere from 20 to 35 USD and pick up some ink or powder to change the color of the epoxy for anywhere from 5 to 10 bucks yes I have about a $60-80 investment but 2,700 roughly makes it well worth it and handmade with a cool design not even including if it has a stain in it
And that 2,700 is a whole month's rent in most States for a single board of 8 ft long with quarter inch thick coasters and then I can use a hundred USD out of that gain dropping me just about 2500 something and I can purchase a few more boards and more of the stain and resin so I will have roughly five grand off of two boards and then I purchase four or more boards with the minimum four that's about 10 grand and that's about a week and a halfs worth of work and then I got to take taxes out but honestly that is still well worth it
Lol, you are a woodworker.... make yourself a table! Great video, thanks!
mind blown that people will shell out $30 for these
I'm guessing the majority of people buying things like this have no power tools of their own so this price is more cost effective than buying all the tools.
@@rhondaholland4604I think they already have one or more missing fingers! 😮😢😂😂😂
You wouldn’t have a chance of selling those for that kind of price in the U.K.
@@botjimllfixthatellis4805 cringe.
I think you underestimate inflation. It costs $30 for 2 people to go to McDonald’s and it took him tools, material, time and knowledge to make these..
Nice. Just wanted to say hey from a fellow Canuck
Hi and thank you for taking the time to watch!
The ending, that’s like $12 bucks. I was thinking to myself, no way he actually sells them for $30 American than I seen the Manopoly money that I know so well. Great video, awesome little side hustle
Let's get some.
Brilliant, if you take anything from this, don’t throw out your used TP inserts, as you never know what you will use them for.😮😂
hi, you can get a kickback doing that cut with a that stop block and don't let the blade stop completely. just an advice .
If you have kids, have them paint the coasters individually and then shellack spray the coasters and tell your customers that your kids painted them. It will probably double or even triple your sales
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You don’t build, you make.
Where u from and how u sell coasters for 30 dollars
Canada, and Maybe they don't have amazon or Ebay?
The pictures on your wall are crooked. Once i saw them i couldn't focus on anything else. I just want to straighten those picture frames.
As soon as I saw the money is plastic I knew you were in Canada.
Problem is your coasters are not going to hold up to hot drinks or ice cold drinks. They either have to be resined or sprayed with high heat engine spray. Plus they are so light that they will probably stick to the cup and scare the crap out of people when they hit the floor. But good for you if you were able to do it. I bought a few sets like that online and painted them, then sprayed with high heat spray., and put cork on the bottom.
This is one of the dumbest comments I’ve ever read. Do some research before you act like you know better
@@alanr9634 Wow, talk about waking up on the wrong side of the bed. I do fluid art on coasters and have for years, I do know something about making coasters heat resistant. I did say good for you if you can sell them. I liked your idea very much. Thanks for reminding me to never look at your page again. I'm Canadian too and I thought we weren't supposed to be rude people, but I guess there's always going to be a few.
My dad they close like that, but put Felt in the hole
$30 for two 😮 I'm over thinking that I should build some and sell them at $3 a piece 💀
Sell them as floor or wall tiles. Do proper production.
how you sell them for 30$ I sell on eBay and wood coasters of much higher value sell for 10$ a set its mind boggling but nice job I guess
The guys on Y
U tube saying building and selling stuff piece of cake. Way to make easy income was riding the wood wave. That wave is dead nearly it’s slowing down. They already made their money. Least I didn’t fuck up by building a ass house full of crap I made 1 of everything, that was low cost. And sold not one thing, garden centers laughed at me for asking 45.00 garden trellis, owls they said hideous, but ytube said hot sellers. Least this time I didn’t bite down on the salesman hook I learned my lesson. Just for views so they can make their money the easy couch potato wave. Prob never sold anything
Taco trays
Great idea ill look into it!
Go build a work table!
That is definitely part of my future plans
Let me guess, they sold for $300 each, right?
lol 😂
😂😂😂😂
Out of a spruce 4x4🤷♂️ no exotic woods?
People actually bought those?
I make coasters from the off cuts of my exotic wood boards, and they barely sell.
No chance in hell people will buy coasters from a spruce 4x4 where I live 😂
I wish they would 😅
Your palm sander sounds like Chewbacca drowning in a garbage disposal.
Kind of an odd takeaway for what the video is actually about.
You should write songs! maybe.....not.
Not quite the Tourette’s Guy quote, but as close as could be and be family friendly.
@@jonboyd9186 Bob Sagat!
That's a piece of wood
but a magnificent one !
When i first saw this, the first thing that popped into my mind was "Pet Rock". I wonder if you are related to the guy that came up with that one?
The Pet Rock made millions of dollars for the inventor.
I'm sorry but who would buy a flat piece of unattractive wood to use as a coaster. That is so primative.
The same people who enjoy watching a campfire.
So how much money did you make lol
the most half ass “build” video I’ve ever seen on TH-cam. What am I supposed to gain from this dude
I can't believe tatanyone would pay anything for nothing mre than a cut 1/2" piece of 4x4 that has nothing going for it besides a coat of varnish! That was pretty lame!
Bro you didn’t build anything lmao😅
Oh wow, people pay money for every fart that's available. You made them nicely, but couldn't believe people would buy them, crazy. I couldn't do this because it's so simple that I don't see the fun in doing it.
I’m not sure what I just watched. Like the worst substitute P.E. teacher being made to take the woodwork class. Clamping some dry wall to a piece of wood to make a table? Cutting up toilet roll to make painting trestles? Pyramid support frames 10 for $1.50 Temu. You’re welcome.
BWA-HA! That's just what I was thinking! Props for putting this video out, but bro... the toilet paper tubes have got to go! Stain them on your 'scrap table' directly, use pyramids/bench pucks, or dunk them in a bath! Much more effective! You're welcome part deux! Keep posting though. I do like your no nonsense style! I'll watch for sure! (And probably comment (again)) :)
@chrislee3948 thanks for the Pointers much appreciated. It’s hard because I had a whole dodgeball and basketball curriculum planned out for this year but they stuck me in “shop” class instead.
Drive small finish nails through a piece of 3/4 scrap, works for me.
@@John-yt5zr I use roofing nails.
I make a lot of money from Mathew peach video it depend where you live every state is different I learn a lot from Mathew peach I make a living from this if you stage your items well they would sell
"I really like to build things" You literally didn't build anything. You cut a piece of wood and slapped stain on it and you didn't even seal it. There's going to be water rings on them.
I like you as a woodworking TH-camr, but I have trouble believing that you honestly sold 5 sets in a week just advertising them on FB Marketplace or whatever.
Me to to both but I also though he was very believable. Why say 5 when he sold 3 or 4? I imagine he lives in a higher populated area if he sold many in. A week. But either way, I liked his down to earth presentation and wasn’t cocky at all. I hope we all have some kind of luck with these!!
Thanks for watching guys and I appreciate the comments! I live in the second largest city in Canada with a population over 3.5 million. This among other things definitely puts some odds in my favour when selling items.
@@beanstalkbuilds all facts. Thank you for acknowledging our comments. It’s alot to keep up I bet! Have a great night, and day and keep up the wonderful work!!
I am a woodworker you should not be makeing viedos at all
You can’t spell so you shouldn’t be writing comments at all
Thanks @shermannewman, you just guaranteed that I will never watch your videos
Always gotta be that one asshole....why????
@@averageguylifestyle7092😅
thank you nbfothewwr>
Wtf! Im about to make these! Haha
Good luck!