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Music and woodworking
Well, I play guitar (I was in a band when in college), and most of the furniture in my home is of my making. This Old House and New Yankee Workshop are my favorite shows.
I own a very old (1740) home and have done all the woodworking in the renovation of that home. My wife kids me that I will spend $300 on a router and bits to build a table when I could just buy one that would do for $200. But really anyone who has priced quality custom-built furniture or colonial reproductions can tell you that you can't really buy that for $200.
So, I think it was my expensive champagne taste, combined with my beer budget that has more to do with my woodworking than any desire to be a furniture maker.
I am always going to antique shops just to find furniture to copy. I actually went into an art store with a pad and tape measure to copy a very expensive studio easel. The salesmen just stood there and watched me as I measured and drew and even took part of the easel apart so I could better see the construction. I then put it all back together, thanked the salesmen and walked out.
I then went to a lumber yard that had local red oak at a good price bought what I needed and built my own studio easel. I had to spend a bit more on the hardware but even using the best red oak it still cost me less then half of what the one in the store cost.
My latest creation was a model stand with mortise and tenon construction and raised panels. One of the panels opens for a storage drawer. So I guess I do both woodworking and music as well as art.
P. S. I think the music thing was to meet girls more than a desire be a great guitar player. After all, that is how I met my wife. : )
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