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Muh dad owns a shop that I work in a couple times a week, it's just him and I that work there and we act as a central fabrication and repair place for another company. But since the end of last year we've been getting a lot less work and I need help figuring out how else I can utilize the shop to make money. It's a shop that has all the tools necessary for wood, metal, and auto work, I can pretty much do everything here. I tried creating side hustles such as sewing custom thigh straps (it's a long story, failed because I couldn't find low-profile-enough materials), real carbon fiber phone cases (failed because I couldn't achieve the perfect fit doing everything by hand), and shoe repair (not enough money in it, plus not a shrinking market). I have access to many different plastics, metals, fabrics, rubber, composite materials, pretty much everything and anything raw as well as glues and different resins.
Any constructive advice would be appreciated.
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Look at Etsy, fabricate expensive furniture for hipsters
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>>1767191
Get thrown out furniture from goodwill/craigslist for cheap/free.
Reupholster the furniture and sell back on Craigslist/Etsy/Ebay at a mark up.
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>>1767213
Just looked through it, sex furniture may have better margins. https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/258463226/trap-bdsm-bondage-bondage-furniture-bdsm?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=furniture&ref=sr_gallery_10
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>>1767272
do people really buy furniture online? I can imagine the shipping would be super expensive.
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>>1767276
Yeah, I did this for a bit.
But I never shipped anything.
Every post I made had "LOCAL PICK UP NEAR [Location] ONLY" plastered on it in every field several times.
It wont make you rich but it brought in around $2-300 US each week
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>>1767191
Start milling glock slides
polymer 80 frame has made them all super expensive
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Grow weed or make meth
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>>1767272
this, I would also look into antiques. Learn about the business and restoring them.
watching a few episodes of salvage hunters couldn't hurt.
Don't get too hyped if you see his store though, he got insane connections and cred because of his show. But you could def make a living if you become an expert in restoring/reselling antiques.
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Hi, I'm Norm Abram welcome to the New Yankee Workshop
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So you have a functional metal, wood and auto shop but can find ways to make money?
1. Find a certified mechanic or two looking for work. Charge then to rent a bay out and take a percent on all work performed.
2. Infinite number of things you can do in a metal or wood shop. Go around to local machining shops and freelance tool and die repair. Make random metal art to sell at fairs and flea markets. Signs, furniture, decorative shit.
3. Start building furniture to sell at fairs and fleas.
4. Depending on your expertise. Start working with more exotic stuff. Carbon fibre ect. Make molds for custom auto parts/accessories. Wings, ground effects, random trim, knobs, ect.
With a shop like that youre only limited by your creativity.
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>>1767191
Make untraceable guns or custom concealed weapons.
Check out Clinton Westwood on YouTube.
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>>1767191
You and your dad could suck cocks for money there?
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>>1767275
Holy shit, I'm tempted to sneak into my local high school just to use the shop to make these and sell them. It's so fuckin simple to make.
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>>1768335
yes it's simple but i don't think it's a decent ROI, because unless you live in a developing country like that guy does (poland in his case), the labour costs (since you want to eventually scale it and make others slave away making sex slave cages for you) would shrink your margins.
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