re: Who is interested in building this sort of stuff?

Who doesn’t love bananas? a meter?! Crikey! Komodo!
I had a spider almost that big last year but she seems to have gone to another workshop, probably a posher one, mine’s not so posh. Maybe the stray cat that sleeps there now (workshop has a cat flap, don’t ask why) bothered her, who knows? I kind of miss her, but not very much. She hung out near the hand planes and worried me.