On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 13:27:09 -0600
dpb wrote:


There are quite a number of folks who specialize in the crafts
markets; some of them do so quite successfully. It takes approaching
it in a manner appropriate to the genre, though...if you take a
weekend on a "one-off" item, that doesn't cut it.

I had a good friend in E TN who make "rustic" toys, yard ornaments
and the like and made a decent living at it for years. It was "junk"
wood-working by the standards of virtually everybody here, but it
sold at a net profit in surprising volume.

Sounds like he found the "sweet spot". Just enough effort but not too
much. A niche.

The Boggs comments are interesting and I think that same story has played
out all over the country. The coop idea sounds like the same thing as
what the menonites/amish/quakers do.