I could never make a living at it because it takes me a tremendous amount of time to create something that is much too small to command a decent price and turn a profit. Most professional woodworkers and furniture makers will tell you to make sure you get a nice big table on offer to your customers, and I would. By comparison you feel like you have to give away the chairs. People expect you to surround that nice big table with six or eight furmiture them, but the whole set should be made for less than the price of the one table! Still you can never have enough little boxes. As a professional hand tool woodworker, Richard found hand tools to be the far more efficient solution for a one man workshop. Richard runs ‘The English Woodworker’ as an online resource and video education for those looking for a fuss free approach to building fine furniture by hand. I did the small item thing for a few years when I was selling stuff at craft shows. I then changed my designs so I could m...