Lets kick this off with something kinda of fun, I do a lot of work for a local industrial park, and they had cut up a cherry tree. I grabbed a few chunks of it and dropped them off at the shop no real plan for them at the time but the ones I grabbed were going to have some nice figure so away they went. So they sat in the shop for a while to dry until i saw a stool in fine wood working by Alan Turner, who is actually close by and teaches at the philly furniture workshop. So up until this point I have rebuilt chairs of all kinds, but never one all the way. So now I wanted a shop stool. Not just any shop stool. But one that when people come to the shop it throws them a bit off. Its a shop. things get knocked over, spilled, sometimes there is fire, its not a safer environment for things to stay in. So why spend the time and effort of something that is nice when chances are it going to get some abuse (i stopped counting how many times ive knocked it over) why not. I makes me smil