The picnic table is the very first item I actually made out of wood. My husband helped me with it, but the labor of cutting and assembling was mostly mine. I love everything about wood: the smell of freshly cut wood, the smell of the polyurethane and stain, the sanding, using a finer grit for each step until its baby smooth. The table was not finished to that kind of fineness, but as I continued on, I brought other tools into play.