I couldn't agree more. I am also liking more personalized projects a lot more. I had more actual "fun" at the lathe and belt sander a few months ago making kitchen ware for Christmas presents. I lined up all my scraps and made turners, spatulas, spoons, stirrers, etc., and at the end of a month a group of them. I originally intended to sell them so I could use the money for a new scroll chuck, but they were claimed by the signifcant other well before they were available.
I didn't mind too much. I had never done anything like that before, and I used to take them in and put them out on the table just to look at them. They were so far off the path of what I usually do I grew attached to all of them. So now we have a big cannister full of "treen" ware.
I liked your rack a lot. Is it for an upper or lower? Your design? May have to swipe an idea or two from your pics!
And do try to keep Leon busy. I would hate to hear of someone in Houston arrested for resawing his neighbor's garage with some kind of new bandsaw! Of course, with all that high powered resaw capability he should be able to keep you in lots of smaller pieces for those smaller projects....
Robert