Stories of woodworkers and furniture makers – what they make by hand, how they work and where to find them.
Craig Thibodeau, a mechanical engineer turned furniture maker, builds puzzle furniture to commission in southern Virginia, with pieces starting around $15,000. He doesn't advertise: since 2014, videos of his pieces moving and being solved have brought in nearly every commission.
Video Platforms
Woodwork & Furniture
Communities & Forums
Social Media
Word of Mouth & Offline
Oct 14, 2026
A family workshop in a small Lithuanian town started out selling firewood and outdoor furniture sets locally – then found nearly all its international buyers through Etsy, growing from about 150 orders last year to 219 so far this year.
Search & AI Traffic
Collabs & Shoutouts
Marketplaces
Sep 30, 2026
Safiye Ceren Akıllı started Ahşap Hikayesi in 2015 painting furniture by hand, without ever touching a woodworking machine – when the pandemic hit five years later, she bought her own machinery, taught herself to run it, and turned the business into a manufacturer that now supplies some of Turkey's largest furniture companies.
Sep 10, 2026
Krister Tonsiver turns rare curly birch into one-off objects from a 1924 log building. Etsy search has been his main channel since 2018 – but the numbers have never added up to a living, and that was never quite the point.
Sep 4, 2026
