If you have woodworking skills, you’re all set to start a business. All you need is an idea for something you can make quickly that the public would like to buy.

Unique clothing buttons, desk toys, children’s toys, high-end ballpoint pens, and similar small objects come to mind.

Using rare and beautiful woods is a big plus.

Ordinary plywood can be made into interesting objects. For instance, I once cut a 42-inch disk from a piece of thick plywood. With a router, I carved a chess set into the middle by cutting alternate squares down through the top layer. The squares underneath were darker. I then covered the whole thing in a thick layer of clear resin. The thick resin-coated concept is a very 1970s art style, but it could make a great comeback.

I’m sure smaller objects could be carved from plywood, showcasing it’s unique laminated look as well.

Selling your objects can be done in all the usual ways. Find ones right here in the General Business Action Pack such as selling on Ebay, Etsy, Craigslist, yard sales, and consignment.

Artistic woodburning can be a nice way to enhance your projects. Simply making something like unique key fobs, but with names burned in, can be good sellers. You’d think you should just make fobs with the most common names such as Susan and John, but you may find that the rarer names such as Johan and Cassandra sell well also because items with those names are so much less common.