Jon has been busy building custom fishing rods. His Christmas present from his Dad was a fold-out rod-building bench that can masquerade as a pretty console table. So far there it has been folded-out permanently in our living room with no hint of console table, especially after Jon got his new [not sure what it's called] to sit on top of the table and spin the rod for wrapping and drying. In the picture he's still using the old one, but the new one has a pedal like a sewing machine. Some of the rods he's built are for himself, others are for customers, and others are show-off "show rods" for Cajun Custom Rods, a custom rod building company in Omaha that Jon has been building wooden handles and rods for.