Essential Craftsman YouTube Stats

@essentialcraftsman · DIY, Home & Crafts · Updated Nov 14, 2026

Essential Craftsman channel overview

Essential Craftsman (@essentialcraftsman) is a YouTube channel in the DIY, Home & Crafts niche created in 2016. It has 1.9M subscribers and 331M total views across 1K videos, an average of 325K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 366K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 213K views. Over the last 12 months, Essential Craftsman published 52 videos (13% Shorts), and 5 of them (10%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 7 days, Essential Craftsman gained 0 subscribers and 2.3M views, about 326K views a day.

How much does Essential Craftsman make?

Returbe estimates Essential Craftsman's YouTube ad revenue at $35K – $120K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.39 to $11.61, typically $6.29, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $6.3K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Essential Craftsman publishes about 8.7 videos a month. Based on its last 52 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (44% of uploads), usually around 12:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 14, 2026.

Essential Craftsman's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Essential Craftsman's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• 10 Expensive Tools Worth Every Penny1.7M views · Oct 21, 20267.8× typical views
• This is the Most Overbuilt Gate1.5M views · Sep 19, 20267.2× typical views
• One Man Massive Shop Build [Start to Finish]1M views · Sep 9, 20264.7× typical views
• Wood Stoves: Everything to Know for Better Fires799K views · Oct 17, 20263.7× typical views
• Do Hard Things768K views · Oct 7, 20263.6× typical views
• Everything You Need to Know about Air Tools613K views · Sep 5, 20262.9× typical views
• Fire Is The Tool's Tool163K views · Aug 3, 20262.7× typical views
• Thinning a Massive Tree Without Big Equipment469K views · Sep 2, 20262.2× typical views

Latest videos

11 of Essential Craftsman's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Why Work-Life Balance is a Myth29K views · Nov 14, 20260.1× typical views
• The Right Work Clothes for Most Jobs161K views · Nov 11, 20260.8× typical views
• I Just Bought The Weirdest Beams460K views · Nov 7, 20262.2× typical views
• The Man Who Thinks For Himself: A Dying Breed218K views · Nov 4, 20261× typical views
• The Timber Framing Turned Out More Beautiful Than I Imagined.254K views · Oct 31, 20261.2× typical views
• Construction Math is Overcomplicated. Use Sticks Instead.265K views · Oct 28, 20261.2× typical views
• This is One of My Biggest Struggles196K views · Oct 24, 20260.9× typical views
• 10 Expensive Tools Worth Every Penny1.7M views · Oct 21, 20267.8× typical views
• Wood Stoves: Everything to Know for Better Fires799K views · Oct 17, 20263.7× typical views
• Low Work Ethic? I'll Tell you in 15 Minutes How to Get it194K views · Oct 14, 20260.9× typical views

The DIY, Home & Crafts niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 11K videos from 1.1K channels in this niche. 13.4% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 6.9K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wood You Believe (58K subs, best video 183.6×), LuxeRenaissance (42K subs, best video 39.3×), Hand Works (4.8K subs, best video 24.8×), AstuceKing (38K subs, best video 36.7×), Mohamad Iza Askana (73K subs, best video 51.1×), TechnoclipHd (256K subs, best video 32×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Essential Craftsman or YouTube.