Custom woodworking / furniture maker

The episode profiles a former High Times cartoonist turned woodworker selling handcrafted cannabis wands to wholesale shops, earning up to $20,000 per trade show.

The episode profiles an ad executive and new dad who built a small woodworking business making handcrafted ladders during his infant's nap times.

Episode #1478 follows a lawn-care business owner who starts building custom live-edge wooden tables from trees. The episode covers his shift from lawns to lumber and how the custom wood pieces sell as a woodworking side hustle.

A Texas financial planner combines woodworking and menswear interests to make and sell menswear storage solutions from his home shop.

The Failure Friday segment profiles the maker of Big Bat Houses, a large wooden bat shelter whose pandemic-era collapse illustrates the risk of niche wood products tied to discretionary home projects.

A new teaching graduate skips the classroom to earn a living building custom rustic tiki bars for homeowners using pallet-style materials, with personalized home installations as the revenue model.

A New Zealand teacher relocates to Japan and builds a side hustle making custom wood art based on customers' personal memories, with location and a 'commissioned memory' angle supporting the price.

Ep. 2998 profiles a Malibu bartender who designs and builds custom home bars as part of a side hustle earning around $150,000 yearly.

The episode profiles a self-taught maker who grew a hobby of rustic wall hangings into a full-time woodworking decor business.

A high-school teacher converted a woodworking hobby into a five-figure side hustle and used the builds as teachable lessons in his classes.

An Alberta firefighter uses downtime and a chainsaw to carve life-sized wooden bears, selling them to universities, restaurants and individual buyers. The episode is a handcrafted large-woodworking side hustle.

The episode profiles an HVAC sales rep who picks up custom woodworking projects through Instagram, selling handcrafted furniture and decor as a side income.

A self-taught maker turns rustic wall hangings into a full-time woodworking home-decor business, tracking the move from part-time hobby to primary income.

A California guitar builder uses leftover wood to make retro clocks and guitar stands, earning roughly $2,000 per month from small handmade wood goods.

A cardiologist picks up wooden bear carving as a hobby and begins selling the sculptures for side income.

The episode profiles a high-school student who taught himself to make better wooden bow ties after receiving one he disliked, building a handmade woodworking ecommerce business that earned $20,000 in a year.