Maybe this isn’t the right place to post this, so remove if necessary.
I have been trying to think of a decent name for the past 6 months and I can’t settle on anything. My last name is Wood, and so because of the funny coincidence there, I would really like to have some name that could incorporate the idea that I am Wood and I make wood.
Although, it doesn’t have to have anything to do with my name, I just thought it might be a good idea. I’m open to anything you guys have.
Here are the only two names I’ve been able to come up with on my own:
Pure Wood
Peak Woodworking
I've decided to turn my hobby into a side hustle... Nothing too serious, just going to put a few pieces on Etsy - but I am really struggling to come up with a business name.
I'm based in southern Ireland, and make handcrafted wooden products like wood turned fruit bowls, chopping boards, vases, lamps etc etc.
I often use scrap, reclaimed wood, or bits from local trees that fall in storms. I go for character in my pieces above all else. Sometimes I incorporate some resin work in a piece too.
I'm a one man band - not a production line, and I want to emphasize in my branding that it's all unique, high quality, and 100% handmade.
I appreciate any suggestions you have!
I used to watch a woodworking YouTuber a couple of years ago. I don’t know if he’s still in the game though. The last videos I watched of his, he was talking about putting woodworking on hold because he was committing his time to the family business which was a pretty big farm. He had some content showing some big farming machines.
I remember being really impressed with his workshop. I think he had a ton of Festool gear. And I remember he had a popular office desk design I think that he was manufacturing.
I can’t really remember any more specifics though! I know; not a lot to go off of. But if anyone knows it by chance, you would save my sanity a bit!
This week I assembled a flat-pack bookshelf from West Elm which cost about as much as a sawstop crosscut sled. It's been a hard week. Thanks for the free coffee.
Can we have burglars?
Looking to help my brother name his woodworking business.
He makes tables, benches, shelving, and has recently got into some other cool things like wood and resin lamps and whittling kitchen utensils.
He wants his company name to be sort of dedicated to our grandfather who passed away. We called him Deda (Croatian for grandpa). But he also had some funny thing he liked to say like “Good for nothing” and “Dodo bird”. Alternately something to do with fishing would also be fitting.
All suggestions appreciated. Thank you!!
If you have a recommendation the last part that sounds better, please feel free to share!
Which name resonates with you? Opening a woodworking shop. Making jewelry, ornaments, coasters, signs, etc.
I play alot of shooters but recently it's been Rogue Company and CoD WW2. I read alot of Stephen King but also crime related books and historical fiction.
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Greg Klassen has trademarked the word "River" in regards to furniture design. Since then, the woodworking community online has lost it's collective shit over the entire thing. A river table is that thing where you turn the live edges of a slab inward toward each other and put either glass or epoxy in the space between so it looks like.... a river. They are EVERYwhere nowadays.
Many of the passionate comments are from people who don't understand trademark law at all, and have made it VERY clear that they will "build whatever they want." Even though they can already do that.
The most reasonable argument against his actions, however, are by companies who have been making the same or similar designs since well before he was.
Oliver Beckert in 2004: https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/travelland-river-table-877
klassen in 2014: https://dirt.asla.org/2014/07/11/edge-furniture/
others have claimed to have made them earlier as well, i just dont have links to those claims.
Either way, the drama is just peaking now it seems. Klassen had to shut off comments on his social media due to a flood of nasty remarks streaming in from hobbyists and professionals alike.
Of course this is really silly because river tables are beyond played out anyway.
My partner and I just relocated to a new state over the summer and we’re finally getting our furniture making business set up here. We were operating under the name in my username but we want to change things because we’re adding some other aspects to our business here and want to use a name that better reflects these aspects. I (Monica) am the furniture maker/wood worker. Jessy, my partner also does some woodworking and handles the business end of things. We’re a queer female owned business. We make fine furniture, cabinetry and other household items (mirrors, bowls, spoons, serving trays etc.) for homes as well as businesses. The thing we are added to our business here is: we are going to be offering classes and workshops geared specifically toward women/queer people/anyone who doesn’t feel comfortable in traditional woodworking settings that tend to be very masculine and not always friendly toward women. I’m not saying that is always the case, but as a woman I’ve experienced a surprising amount of sexism in this industry and we just want to create a space for people to learn where they can feel comfortable and accepted. We’re wanting to name the business here: (blank) studio/s, so it can encompass all of the aspects of our business, but we’re having trouble finding a name that we like. We’re open to any suggestions, including names without the word studio. We would love to have a name that kind of speaks to our mission of making woodworking more inclusive toward women and more accessible to and accepting of everyone. Thank you for any suggestions and I apologize for the very long description!
It’s a smaller business that makes quality hand tools like really nice planes the way they used to 100 years ago. I’ve seen him mention it multiple places but definitely in his book “Good Clean Fun” lol I got the audiobook which is great, but the >40 chapters are all unlabeled and I can’t find it.
I shit you not.
