Thanks for the flowers, both of you.
At that age we all have many different interests, and most of them sooner or later fade again in the early adult years. I had so many interests in younger years. At school microscopy and astronomy and volleyball. In private: tabletop cosims (very much loooked down upon in Germany), photography, blade forging (theoretically only
), outdoor stuff, rapier fencing. But time got in the way, the day and week had only so many hours, I was heavily engaged with chess and correspondence chess and martial arts, and so some things fell out of the timetable all by themselves. Wood working was one of these, even more so since beside doing such filigrane, small scale crafting like the walls for the pyramid, more robost, house-related handcrafting is not really a love for mine. I do it pragmatically only: if it needs to get fixed, I fix it, somehow, improvised, and if it works, fine, it must not look super as long as it just works. And suually it works, and yes, but it almost never looks super.
Small wood crafting is what I can do best.
I would not have the room and space for a work bench today.