Do people actually move these products at these prices?

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literally a stained board and some pipe fittings

>>1119691
It's the convenience that sells. Lots of people don't want to or can't take the time to make them themselves

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>>1119691
prime quality artisanal craftmanship attracts a premium price, from premium people prepared to pay the price for premier work. That, and shit with pallets nailed together at random.

>>1119691
Do people shop Ikea?

Stoopid millennials will pay big buck for stuff anyone with half a brain could bodge together.
I sold someone a custom coat-rack. Good selection of old hangers from a bulldozed school and a rather nice piece of oak from salvage. parts cost me nearly nothing, made $80 on the deal.
Best part is I did this as a bet over beer!

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>>1119714

>1 feedback
>he's sold at least one of them

>>1119736
>Stoopid millennials will pay big buck for stuff anyone with half a brain could bodge together.
it's hard to build your own furniture when you live in apartment
that said i'd rather go to Ikea than give anyone on Etsy money

>>1119691
>>1119692
>>1119694
all those prices are actually pretty reasonable if you value your time at anything above minimum wage
>>1119714
buying a premade pallet bed is just retarded though

>>1119714
You might as well just sleep in the floor. What's the fucking point?

>>1119692
>>1119694
>>1119691
If I was making those, I'd charge double what he is.

Each one of those takes the better part of a day to build at least.

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>>1119986

Are...are you being serious?

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>>1119714
>(((1 reviews)))

>>1119986
This is why the dollar is over valued and China and Mexico are thriving where America is losing production.

>In b4 muh Trump maga rhetoric

>wanted to make garbage out of other garbage
>fretted that no one would buy it

>these fucking prices for pieces of wood with storebought coat hooks driven into them

jesus christ

i need to get some proper tools so i can start doing shit

>>1119691
After seeing these, I'm going to turn 50 dollars into 500 dollars.

Only suckers buy things they can build themselves.

>>1119993
top lel still whining about overpaid craftsmen

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>>1120014
same desu

>edge glue a couple planks
>stain
>attach thing

wew

>>1120064

jesus fuck thats just a cabinet door with handles. any fuckhead could go buy the door and handles and attach them to it for far less

fuckin people are stupid

>>1120086
They could do it themselves, but they could buy it too.
Buying is easier.

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>Etsy

That was your first problem. Trying to buy anything here without insane markup for "handmade creativity"

https://www.etsy.com/shop/LumberlustDesigns?

>>1119692
>put something heavy on either side
>accidently push board off of either pipe
>have heavy things on both sides, lift either up

>crash to the floor

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>>1119714

>mfw wood pallets are coated with toxic chemicals but hipsters keep using them for homemade projects

>>1120259
Next time you see a pallet look at how many are marked HT this means they are heat treated, these are safer to make things out of. I actually have a really nice shield made of HT oak ash and a board
of black Walnut

We are /diy/. Of course we see this stuff and think "that would take an hour to build, max." We'd rather spend that hour working with our hands. We also have several grand invested in tools and countless hours invested in learning how to use the tools.

But your average home owner sees these things and thinks "wow, that look nice. And only 50 $ for something hand made? It's a steal!" They'd rather spend that hour watching Netflix. They don't have any tools. They barely know how to use the tools they have.

>>1120276
unless it was sprayed at a later date by someone who doesn't care to remark it.

>mfw people at work piss all over all the pallets and people take them home.

>>1119741
I built quite a bit of my own stuff when living out of a dorm room in uni. Though no one like hearing a skill saw at 10pm. :)
Thankfully the local hardware store would custom cut (within reason) anything like plywood or 2x4. Any painting I did at the back of a parking lot or in the alley.

>>1119691

My grandson finds nice, flat rocks a few inches thick and and overall diameter of ~12" or so.
He decides which side is to be the top, flips it over and uses a diamond hole saw to drill three angled holes part way through.
He cuts some branches 12 to 14 inches long and a little larger in diameter than the hole saw.
He tapers one end and drives them into the holes.
When he flips it back upright it's a three leg stool.
He sells them for around $900 each depending on how attractive and what size they turn out to be.
I don't have a pic but I'll try to take one before this thread dies if there is any interest.

>>1120286
>people at work piss all over all the pallets
Why?

>>1120296
>$900
I want to see that.

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>>1120296
Sounds interesting. Nothing around here that I could do that with, just sandstone and that wouldn't work at all.

After seeing a post on /b I made a few of these for some friends at the local hospital.

>>1119691
Funny you mention that. I got one from parents when I got my first apartment. It's still in a box, I use a bowl.

>>1120344
cute

>>1120314

because people take them

>>1120410
The circle of life

>>1120105
That actually looks pretty cool. Wish I could afford a 24+" circular saw to make that long cut and the plane to make it smooth.

>>1119692
>Floating shelves
>Can see what is holding the shelf up

>>1120518
>wish I could afford $200 in tools
>If only I didn't spend my money on excuses instead.

A little insight:
I grew up in the suburbs of southern california. My parents were both jew lawyers. I am a nurse. I would have never seen a tool in my life, or camped, or worked with my hands EVER if I hadn't joined the military out of high school. I get how to make shit thanks to the guys in the military, but I also get how making shit and what is simple and what is not is a mystery to a lot of people

>>1120259
this kills the bed bugs

>>1119986
unless your including the time it takes for the finish to dry, you are seriously doing something wrong.

even using just hand tools it wouldn't take that long the most complicated one has anywhere from 14-18 cuts, that would only take me an hour using a circular saw measuring 3 times and using clamps to lock down a square so i get square cuts. using a table saw it would take less time

sanding doesn't take long if you know when to change out the sand paper. running it through a planer would take even less time.

>>1120286

Or if they ever crossed a border and were sprayed with a dozen pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides as a regular thing.

Or if it was ever near/around a toxic spill.

Or if it's been left outside to grow mold and fungus deep inside the wood.

Or if it was ever thrown out and then salvaged from a dumpster and covered in rotting meat.

Or if...

Or if...

I'm not saying that pallets are awful, but I consider them to be about as clean as your average trash can. Not something it's healthy to be touchy-feely with.

So now comes the question. For what practical purposes can you use the toxic nasty wood of pallets for?

>>1122801
They're pretty good for moving things around if you have a forklift.

>>1122801

The place I worked at when I was younger used to stack various products on them before they went out on shelves or for shipping. Made it real easy to move them around with a lift or pallet jack.

>>1122805
>>1122831
What about just the wood?

Actually is there any way to "clean" the pallets?

>>1120283
>They'd rather spend that hour watching Netflix. They don't have any tools. They barely know how to use the tools they have.
1000% this!

>>1120283
>>1122854

I come from a family of "push button to get things done" types. My dad tried to tell me about how "people just don't do that sort of thing anymore" with regards to my trying to see if he had any knowledge on DIY stuff. After a few more conversations he began to come round, but the sheer notion of making things rather than just buying stuff seemed 100% alien to him. And he's nearly 50 in a bluecollar job.

I have no idea what the hell happened.

>>1119714
This is convenient for when you need to be fork lifted to the burger store.

>>1122834
Sure. Fire cleanses all.

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>>1120296

It's been sitting on the back porch for a year of so.
It usually has a flower pot or something sitting one it.
I took the dog food dish off of it to take the pic.

>>1119714

>250 pounds sterling

W-wew

>>1119714
Imagine how much that fucking thing weighs

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>>1120294
A university that didn't have a paint room
Phhhh

>>1124194
it's not made of them really heavy blue ones so i'd guess just 40 lbs

>>1120276
The pallet itself might be "safe" but they get reused until they break. You have no way of knowing how many loads of chemicals or manure or dog semen it's transported.

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>>1122868

>>1122769
Sandpaper costs money, so does stain and varnish and especially a planer.
Workshops take money to operate.
Wood costs money
Fittings cost money
Finishing takes time
One coat is of whatever often not enough.


Lets say it takes you two hours complete a live edge and pipe shelf that sells for $40. What are your actual earnings?

You're not even making $15 an hour after you factor in your material costs and other expenses.

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>>1124262

I STILL cannot tell if you're being entirely serious.

If you were cranking these out in a shop, you wouldn't be doing them one at a time, and you'd have setups/jigging to make the work go much faster than it would for a 1-off.

Even then, I estimate it would take me no more than 30 minutes to crank out what's pictured in >>1119692, minus finishing. And half of that is getting the tools out to do it. It's LITERALLY just a single plank ripped to size. I can't even tell if there are channels routed for the pipes to sit in.

As for making them en-masse, I wouldn't be surprised if I could crank one out with 10 minutes of labor, total, including finishing with, IDK, 2 coats of urethane probs. Significantly less if I can get away with just wiping it down with BLO/wax. The cost of consumables is pretty negligible on a piece that size. I'd be surprised if it used more than $3 worth of finish. And sandpaper? Seriously? You're going to try and figure out how much the $0.10 sheet of sandpaper, which will probably last a couple dozen of those shelves, adds to the per-unit cost?

Get real. I can appreciate paying a premium for premium, unique stuff, but this is just straight-up pandering. Shit, I never really looked at this stuff before, but, now that I have, I might just try and get in on it after I finish up a few projects I have waiting. FFS, that "serving tray" posted earlier would take more time than the shelf, and it's just a few boards lap jointed together.

>>1124329
less, it's literally a cabinet door someone ripped off, and then screwed a second handle to. I could do that job in 10 minutes even if I had to refinish the door (which it appears the maker did not).

>>1122805
>>1122831
Omg you guys again?I remember you from science when I asked what I could use the crystals from a turbohaler for

It's not. It looks four boards joined by the two ends. Can even still see a nail.

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>>1119691
I have a related question:
I've got an old colonial drop leaf table (sorry, no pix, at work).
The legs were coming off and and it's got some dings and nicks.
I removed the legs, sanded the old glue off, glued them back onto the central column.
It's now yard sale or thrift store material.
It could use refinishing, but I'm afraid it's already cost me more in glue than I can sell it for.
Where/how do I sell this for max return?