Welcome to Wood Talk for Woodworkers by Woodworkers.

Now here are three guys who are actually under the illusion at

Woodworking is cool. Mark, Matt, and Shannon.

All right, it's Wood Talk Number 261 for July 24, 2015, and it's a weekend edition of

Wood Talk, and today we're going to talk about one

single topic and this is inspired from an email we got from Anthony and it's

about getting paid for your work but being fair to both parties being fair to

yourself and being fair to your quote-unquote client.

So Anthony says, I have a question regarding the monetary value we place on craftsmanship today

as opposed to that of earlier generations.

Example, George Washington paid $145 for an ornate secretary bookcase, Mount Vernon Virtual Tour,

in 1797.

Aside from the obvious historical value, if simply adjusted for inflation, the same item would cost roughly $3,800 today.

I guess he used a tool at measuringworth.com to get that number.

Not an outrageous sum, but in all honesty,

I doubt it would be replicated for five times

that amount today.

I would appear, or it would appear,

that this kind of hand-built quality has become more out of reach

than ever before. How do we put a price on the the pieces we build that justifies

the labor and the material but also makes them accessible to those who appreciate what we do.

He says, Mark, how much for that sculpted rocker?

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