Hey Neander dudes (and dudettes),
As a neander neophyte, I know that I'm neither skilled nor experienced.
It's a bit tricky to be so, without a good teacher or time to go to class (Jay Van Arsdale has a good one on Japanese Woodworking, right in my busiest time of practice).
Can you suggest some skill building projects/drills?
I'd be particularly interested to see if there's different ones for Western vs Japanese woodworking foundations.
It'd be particularly nice if you could recommend some stuff that is useful/nice presents.
I think Stan had recommended making some wooden boxes with pinned box joints--which I plan to do (aka speaker project).
I'm not sure if there are other great projects?
Winding sticks?
Please advise, great sempais.