Why is This Worth So Much $$$$?

I was shocked to find out how much money this cook book or iPad stand is worth. I had no idea! I had to look into it more to find out what drives people to throw money at it. I made this woodworking project using some construction lumber and other very cheap materials.
A cook book stand is a fun woodworking project to tackle and this one is pretty easy. The overall cost of materials is very cheap compared to many workshop projects. It’s also a rustic looking item so you don’t have to build it methodically. You can simply get into the workshop and make a cool project!
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[@mikebond6328]

I browse the “wrong color” paint section at the hardware store and usually find a color that I can live with for a couple dollars.

[@michaelbradford4444]

I had to shake my head to make sure I wasn't dreaming when I saw how much these holders are selling for ! I'm going to make one just for the hell of it. Good job and good video also!

[@NewtonMakes]

I'd love to see people make them and determine for themselves how difficult it really is.

[@MadMonk67]

I made one last year, with the back board in the shape of a house and used a drawer pull to create the lip off of the bottom plate. I didn't use a full-width board for the back, just a 3" wide piece with a single hinge mortised in so it lays flat. I managed to use a low-profile screwdriver to tighten down the hinge screws on the back. My wife loves it and now I can tell her I've saved over a hundred bucks that I can put toward shop tools/supplies/wood. 😀

[@georgestgeorge5110]

I made mine in a viking chair style. Not only adjustable for book size, but flat packs if you want to put it away.

[@williamellis8993]

The really unbelievable part of this is that someone will actually pay that much for one of these. Bill

[@NewtonMakes]

Gotta show your friends you have the same book holder as Oprah. That's 100% th best and healthiest way to impress people!

[@gpcoins539]

An example of this type of pricing is a place that sells furniture named (sounds like may dare). They sell blanket ladders for up to $200 that I can build for under $20. Maybe I need to get into the blanket ladder business.

[@adamc3474]

Find more projects like this that you can make for a low cost and sell them for lower than the store sells them for could be a good small business. Most of the time buying at the store is less expensive but not always. Keep making and stay awesome.

[@kennylakits4093]

Love it, that is so the world we love in!!!!!

[@WoodUCreate]

Another fun project. Thanks for the video, I love all the ideas and your implementation.

[@buzzroadguy]

Learned something with the hole for the hinge screw. Thanks a lot.

[@jimrosson6702]

Great idea and great little project thanks for sharing

[@paulnoble8695]

Hi, thanks for sharing, and in particular, your reasoning for scaling the product. When I've produced kitchen items like yours I've used a wax finish on top of the paint finish (a great wipable surface for those "happy" accidents. Thanks again for your common sense approach.

[@j316finewoodworking6]

LOL I was actually getting ready to make some of these.

[@NewtonMakes]

Boom! Now you may have some more info on the process.

[@ChristIsLord229]

I like your channel because its not full of crap.

[@NewtonMakes]

#crapfree

[@MCsCreations]

Brilliant work, Billy! It turned out beautiful! 😃 Either way, I started to cook a while back and I'm really liking it. I've been getting recipes from the internet, copying to the Word (on my smartphone) and saving as PDF. But it's not exactly easy to read them on the smartphone... So I'm thinking about a tablet, some kind of reader for books as well... I don't know... The issue is needing another SIM card and so on... 🙄 Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@NewtonMakes]

I wish I had a passion for cooking. I DO have a passion for eating, so I got that going for me. 😂

[@MCsCreations]

@@NewtonMakes Well, cooking never crossed my mind as well... Until my father started talking about a kind of food that I also like and I started to look for recipes, out of curiosity. 😂

[@onsapplikasies8620]

Cool project.

[@FearsomeWarrior]

Great project. Love how yours turned out. Very good project to try for a weekend. Oddly similar skills and operations to building a bench hook. I am never surprised to see markup. A couple decades ago I took Math for Business as a requirement. There are products that sell with narrow margins. Then there are many items that have 1,000% markups and they are not uncommon. Stuff with markups in the three thousands up are all over. Unit volume helps with this happen even more easily. If we didn’t have crazy markup companies can’t make money to pay for the crazy things like shipping, truck payments, insurance, paying truck operators, people who design products, and many more.

[@NewtonMakes]

Absolutely agree

[@mb246]

Um produto fácil de ser feito e muito bonito, vou copiar a sua ideia . Muito obrigado, felicidades

[@CidTubino]

Hello, I'm Cid Tubino, I live in the city of Porto Alegre, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil What program do you use to make the projects? Congratulations on your excellent work.

[@michaelwillson6847]

Nice little project billy think u need do more these be good to aee what u come out with. A saw Matthew peech did vidoe recently and showed the price these aswell its insane. May have to one with a dark elm inset! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

[@NewtonMakes]

He did this exact one? I'll try to keep an eye on other opportunities for videos like this if people like them. 👍

[@michaelwillson6847]

@@NewtonMakes am sure it was the same one think the one u did was from pottery barn? Have look at his videos think 3 videos ago somewhere about there think these small projects would be good especially for people to make with seasons coming up.

[@geoffriggins]

I need a little light over the top of mine. I like to cook in complete darkness.

[@NewtonMakes]

For you...anything! 😂

[@kevintravis2154]

Nice job. Looks awesome. Price is right. Not sure why anyone would pay those ridiculous prices.

[@tcbridges]

These look great. I think I will make some for Christmas gifts. What was you angle cut to unfold Thanks for the great video

[@NewtonMakes]

45 degree for the stand

[@pb-bx1ll]

Great video thank you. What was the angle of the bevel?

[@NewtonMakes]

Feet are 22.5

[@pauladams7547]

I built one recently with a very “cutting board” glue up. Was wondering what angle you used. Thank you

[@NewtonMakes]

Stand is at 45 degrees

[@THEBIGBOSS1978]

Are all of those angles 45°

[@carolpowley4339]

Love it! What were your dimensions when you finished it?

[@NewtonMakes]

11" wide x 11.5" tall

[@mrmoto7682]

Sir, I will not pay a dollar over $999 for that. Looks beautiful.

[@cityfiedredneck6841]

$1000 ?!?!! ... I'd say closer to $6000. Shoot! If other KZbinrs can take a couple of garbage slabs, run em through a planer, pour some colored epoxy between them, add 4 legs and sell it for $35,000, yeah, $6000 minimum.

[@ArchEdge]

Its a pity that the guy who actually made the bookstands, isnt getting $175..... the Retailer is..

[@NewtonMakes]

Where's my $175?! Certainly not even close to that much from the views on this video. 😂

[@makenchips]

I like the accounting that you did on this and you do have a point but the other point is you didn't hit in all your fix glass know your time cost nor shipping nor nor nor nor! Did a nice job on a project I really like that. It is hard to compare prices because you don't have all the other data but your point is well taken if you're going to make it a scrap materials or inexpensive big butt stuff million ways of doing it! Let us know the true cost of it!

[@djVania08]

It's not the item. It's the brand and story around it. Anybody can make this, almost no one will be able to sell it for that price...

[@b3arwithm3]

Where do you live? A 2x6 under $5 is a steal. In California even a 2x4 is that much.

[@jovairiaawan1217]

Why do they all look iterations of the Ka’ba in Mecca :) I’m not complaining…but also …what…

[@user-pj2xd2tt5g]

I like it but I like $189.00 better so I’ll make My own like you did. The other one is so much money for the simple reason, because people pay for stuff like that. If I’m going to pay that much for a cookbook stand it better summon tiny men with purple fingers to cook the food for Me when I put a cookbook onto the stand.

[@almirduric3651]

It's unbelievable that just a simple "Oprah's magazine" advertisement and boom charge $100's more per item.

[@NewtonMakes]

Oprah has the power of an Olympian goddess over her faithful.

[@b3arwithm3]

There are no evidence they are selling enough volume at this price.

[@NewtonMakes]

There's perhaps no evidence available to us but sales data exists. We can make a few assumptions that have a high liklihood of being correct, one of which is the cost of maintaining a supply chain. Companies need to avoid high inventory storage times. Due to customers expecting quick turnarounds on purchases, large companies with overhead can't afford to offer items not selling. If this many are listing this item at these prices, they're almost certainly selling them at a reasonable pace. I worked in supply chain risk management.

[@b3arwithm3]

@@NewtonMakes I did not look closely at the sites you listed, but I see lots of overpriced items on Etsy. They don't make it until we order just there is no cost for putting up a listing. I feel, like most items, hand made is hard to stay competitive against manufactured items. In this case, most people don't even use books anymore.

[@yurialtunin9121]

Oprah buys them at 30 usd per piece and sells at 180 usd.

[@BobBob-eh5sb]

Idk, but you can post any price. Doesn’t mean you’re going to get it. And, just because someone has the knowledge and or skills to make big bucks doesn’t mean that have the sense to know the value of these sort of things. These days I think the real key to making money woodworking is to build you stuff on KZbin and have a lot of subscribers 😅

[@NewtonMakes]

I agree with every single thing you said, including the last part. People can make money woodworking and selling things but it's a difficult gig doing it full time and making enough money to support a family. But, I'll let you in on a secret...the average creator is getting about 20-30% of their video views from subscribers, which is what YT pays for. So that channel with few subs but some high views is secretly rolling in enough dough to buy ALL the cookbook stands.