Carving walking sticks wasn't meant to be a money-making hobby for me. I sometimes made them when backpacking, and I had always enjoyed taking my pocket knife to a piece of wood to see what I could make. I just hadn't notion of doing whatever more with the hobby.
One summer, when my wife Ana and I briefly got into the flea shop business, I noticed the occasional vendor selling walking sticks. If the event was more of an arts and crafts show than a flea market, they sold for as much as each. Ana suggested that we could sell them too, so I went to work.
Hobby
I could cut 20 or young poplars in an hour with my "shortcut" saw, and get two sticks out of half of them. My popular wood, however, was white cedar. In the Cedar swamps near home, it grew straight and died young from overcrowding. Cedar wood remains solid for many years after dying, so I could quickly cut many straight and perfectly dried sticks.
There was soon a pile of wood shavings behind the house, as I cut the bark off and carved each stick into discrete forms. Many were just rounded off on top. Others I cut into a spiral, or pyramidal shape. I put padding and leather covers on some, and drilled out the tops to inset nice stones on others. This is a hobby that lets you verily rehearsal your imagination.
I wrapped the walking sticks with leather near the bottom, to prevent splitting, and most also had leather handgrips. The leather came from old leather coats I bought at thrift market for each and cut into strips. It was attached with glue and small nails. Each stick had about fifty cents in materials in it at most.
A Money production Hobby
They sold for as minuscule as each to as much as . This was less than others sold walking sticks for, but then we were mostly selling them at flea markets, rather than arts and crafts shows, where they would get a higher price. I also wholesaled them to a vendor who sold them at gun-and-knife shows, and to a friend who sold them at Native American pow-wows.
How much could you make selling walking sticks? Who knows. I sold about 00 in walking sticks that summer, before we moved on to try an internet business. They were a nice increasing to our other crafts and the stuffed animals we sold at discrete flea markets. My advantage was that I was very productive in production them, spending less than an hour even on the most explicate ones.
The most I sold was 0 in walking sticks in a day. However, I saw vendors who paid 0 to rent a space for the weekend (we typically paid /day for a flea shop space), and sold only walking sticks. They were verily selling much more than I, but in any case, doing something you enjoy And production a behalf is a nice advantage of any money-making hobby.
Walking Sticks - A Money development Hobby
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