You never truly respect a craft until you try it yourself. No one knows how hard it is to make something round out of something square but I am starting to. Without the use of machines things can be so much harder. This weight bar took me about 8-9 hours of continuous work with no breaks between shaving the individual pieces and gluing and holding…so it literally took about a 12-13 hours for the bar realistically. But it is finally complete.