IF you do any amount of woodwork you WILL encounter special orders. They may be for specific gifts for someone or they may be the harder to handle, pay upon completion kind. Obviously the paying kind are nice but make sure you don't bite off more than you can chew. Some folks really do expect more than is reasonable and others will assume since they are paying for it, you will do it absolutely top notch for thrift store prices. Somewhere in between is where you have to strike a balance. Get paid for your KNOWLEDGE and skill, not for the project. This can be a hard concept to grasp but not when you consider how long it has taken you to reach your current level of skill (we won't mention the cost of tools). IF you take a paying project, get paid.
Yes, it is easy to go cheap for friends and family. It becomes a bit harder when it is friends of friends and further and further from your immediate circle. You have reached the buying public and it is no time to price cheap. Assuming you give a break to this friend of a friend, they refer you to their friends based on the quality of your work and how CHEAP it was. Once this circle begins, like ripples on a pond, it seems to never end. Don't be cheap, just be good. Quality work will sell itself. NO, it won't sell the same amount of items but it will more than likely put more money in your pocket. Price for profit. Don't be cheap.
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