How I Price Custom Woodwork Without Underselling Myself

My actual method for pricing custom woodwork out of a two-car garage, including the shop rate math and the three quotes I lost money on.

My actual method for pricing custom woodwork out of a two-car garage, including the shop rate math and the three quotes I lost money on.

The bookshelf I build now: plywood case, hardwood front edge, short spans, no jointer required, because the one I built with a 36 inch span is still bowed.

I have sold from a garage for six years. Here is what moved, what did not, and what the margins really looked like.