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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3424 - STORY: Fire in the Hole! Handcrafted Drumsticks Ignite Into Profits

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Small Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship,, Entrepreneurship

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The podcast is on fire! A woman creates an Etsy store to market her wood-burned artistry wares, specializing in custom, handcrafted drumsticks. 


Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.


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0:00.0

Fire in the hole.

0:09.6

Handcrafted drumsticks ignite into profits.

0:13.3

My friends, welcome to SaitoSool School.

0:15.2

This podcast is on fire.

0:17.1

I have learned so much through the years by working on these episodes,

0:20.1

learning about all sorts of different topics, all kinds of things that people out there do to make money.

0:25.9

And today we're going to talk about pyrography. I've had to practice saying that word, pyrography.

0:31.7

Pyro means fire. And graphy is like writing, drawing, recording.

0:36.9

Pyrography is the art of writing with fire.

0:40.4

Okay, so we're going to hear about this more in the episode itself,

0:42.7

where a pyrogyrogynous handcrafted drumsticks ignite into profits.

0:47.2

I'm going to try to find some other ways to say pyrography just because it's a difficult word to pronounce.

0:51.5

But basically, it's a newspaper company employee who creates an Etsy store to market her woodburned artistry wares. Just goes to show there's something out there you can do as well. It could be something in the arts. It could be something totally different. Basically, there's a skill you have, some knowledge you have acquired, some experience that you have gained that can be turned into an income generating

1:11.4

side hustle. That's what we're all about here on the podcast. I'm going to bring you this

1:14.9

detailed case study right after a quick shout out to our sponsor.

1:33.6

Ella Corrigal-Brocklesby is a full-time graphic designer for a large company.

1:38.9

And when she's not busy at her day job, she used to paint and hand-letter windows for businesses.

1:43.3

Then, in what sounds like, another project that we're going to have to hear about sometime,

1:44.3

she also used to paint race cars. As I said, that'll have to be another episode. For this one, Ella spends for

1:49.8

evenings as a pyrogyz for her Etsy store, cordial greetings. What's pyrography? It is the art of

1:57.6

producing drawings on wood or leather by using heated tools or flame.

2:02.7

Ella stumbled into this line of work when her mother passed away and left her with a lot of

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