What Art Do You Make?

[mngslvs]

If anyone's art is affordable pipe racks, hook a brotha up.

For as simple as they seem, people sure do want to sell them at high prices.

Well that's the thing -- "as simple as they seem" --- they are not simple. If you make a thousand of something in a factory, you can sell it for a "reasonable" price. If what you're making is a one off, like my pipe rack, it is not the same thing at all. People who are not woodworkers have no clue all the different steps that go into making a piece. No reason they should. Wood is not a stable material -- it expands and contracts as the seasons change, so that has to be accounted for in the design, and that is only one example of challenges encountered.
So "high prices" touches a nerve among woodworkers. Very tough way to make a living. One reason it's just a hobby for me.

 

[alaskanpiper]

a few photos. I do furniture and stained glass.
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Incredible!!!!

 

[alaskanpiper]

I love all the creativity in this thread. Here is my passion - building acoustic guitars. This is a shot of my next-to-last after buffing out and after stringing up. The instrument lives now in France.

Totally amazing. Awesome work!!!

 

[cigrmaster]

If you can write it backward and upside down, then you're an artist.

That could be the worlds greatest feat in the history of man kind.

 

[sablebrush52]

That could be the worlds greatest feat in the history of man kind.

Especially when written in Sanskrit.

 

[bullet08]

Not good at piss writing (lack of practice, rarely snows here). But could blow a smoke ring if there's no wind and if no one's looking. Yupe, it's called a secret art.

 

[jttnk]

You guys have some skills. Thank you all for sharing. I won’t say artist, but I do love playing music. Even though I’m what they call the 4th guy who hangs around with musicians... the drummer?

 

[doug535]

A humidor I built several years ago when I got back into smoking cigars.

 

[anotherbob]

You guys have some skills. Thank you all for sharing. I won’t say artist, but I do love playing music. Even though I’m what they call the 4th guy who hangs around with musicians... the drummer?

right next to you as a bass player. Drummers are weird and you know why? Cause there are so few of them. You can kick a guitarist out of a band and find another one over the tiniest thing. A drummer good luck finding another one. Drummers also don't get the respect they deserve. They really do more to make or break a piece of music then people think they do.

 

[anotherbob]

o.k. rephrasing the question. What creative endeavors do you do? Music, writing, and crafting including crafting snow sculptures with organic fluids too.

 

[jttnk]

right next to you as a bass player. Drummers are weird and you know why? Cause there are so few of them. You can kick a guitarist out of a band and find another one over the tiniest thing. A drummer good luck finding another one. Drummers also don't get the respect they deserve. They really do more to make or break a piece of music then people think they do.

If I didn’t play drums, I think I would love playing bass!