Woodworking is for the select few.

 As a person who likes to do woodworking, I know that it takes a certain amount of patience, time, dedication, creativity, and passion to be able to put in the effort towards taking pieces of wood and making it into a piece of art.

From all the people I have meet who have practice in this field, they all have patience. When you are working on a project you need to remember that everything takes time. Patience comes into play when you are waiting on the stain, sealer, and finisher to dry and it can also come into place when you are trying to cut or put pieces together for the overall project. Everything progressively comes together. Remembering that its not going to be an easy task, and there's bound to be something that creeps up and bites you. You have to be willing to calm down and push the restart button.

Time is key to making a project. When a set time frame is put in place mistakes are made. Time cannot be pushed, when it's not pushed you are allowed those mistakes and the time to correct them. You can take a small end table and think it will only take a couple days when in reality it could take up to a week or more depending on the details in that end table. There are things that might not have been originally thought of that end up coming up later in the project.

Woodworking needs a side of creativity. Creativity brings out the essence of your project. There are so many elements to creativity with woodworking. What type of wood you will use, how big will your project be, what type of design do you want? There are so many questions to ask and figure out when you work on a project that itself takes enough time to picture everything together, and drawing a layout of almost each piece of wood you will cut.

The last final part to woodworking is dedication and passion. They are what drive your project to become complete. I believe and have seen from all the men who are carpenters or close too have the love to build. Dedicating your time to put effort into a project proves you have passion. Granted we can't always be doing what we love but when you can its a thrill. When a project is complete you are full of excitement and want the praise of what you have done. It's a great experience, and sometimes it's great for relieving stress.

If you possess all these qualities you might just make a great woodworker. Just make sure you aren't scared to get a little dust in your hair, eyes and mouth, and be able to cope with the stinging pain of a splinter (because you do get plenty of thoses!) Overall, it's a talent to possess and worth possessing.