[momotomo]

The lack of scale is probably cooling people's interest in investing in this - realistically it's not going to escalate into something that produces returns by a factor of N. It doesn't mean it's a bad idea - but this is basically hobby / small business / home business territory.

Meanwhile, if you have good ideas, have you considered working on the design side, getting together with a few people and moving towards small scale mass production for your gear?

edit: sorry, mass production as in finding a manufacturer somewhere who can make bulk quantities of your furniture, wood or otherwise.

[brentmc79]

Well, to be honest its not really investing since you'll get a product in return, but yeah I see what you're saying.

For right now its just me doing the design and fabrication. I'd like to keep it that way as long as possible. I think the fact that they're not mass produced is what people really like about it.

If it does somehow get to be more than I can handle, then I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. ;)

[momotomo]

Can relate, I work in the arts so theres always a 1:1 cap on the production / profit aspect of it (excluding soft copies like prints and digital editions). Though, given, that's completely discounting the return of the enjoyment of the craft itself.

You could very well do both, produce and sell the originals, shell out a second business that mass produces the more popular designs, etc.