The Woodworker's Visual Guide to Pricing Your Work

by Kerry Pierce

Let The Woodworker's Visual Guide to Pricing Your Work do the math, and make your bottom line even better! You spend hours carefully tuning tools, selecting materials and crafting high-quality projects. But are you charging enough for all the time, skill and overhead required? Do you know how to adjust prices to reflect current market values? Should you use different pricing for different methods of selling? With The Woodworker's Visual Guide to Pricing Your Work you'll find the answers you need. It takes the guesswork out of figuring what to charge, calculating the market value of more than 140 wooden wares, so you'll be sure to get the best price for every piece you sell. To make this book quick and easy to use, each project features a detailed photo and specs listing its dimensions, materials, costs, labor and estimated price. All you have to do is match your project to one in the book. It's that simple. From toys to furniture to folk art, a wide range of today's best-selling pieces are shown. This guide also includes easy, preset formulas you can use to calculate prices for any type of woodworking. In addition, you'll receive practical advice from professional woodworkers throughout the country who share their strategies for pricing, selling and marketing their work.

128 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1999