Thanks everyone for watching the video and your great comments.
To answer the question about the leather and design - I was visiting our Springfield plant and went to Springfield Leather, a great store in town which has a huge selection of leather of all kinds. Thick, thin, stamped, different color hides etc. I saw the edge of this large roll that had a "crocodile" pattern on it and asked the lady to show it to me. She took it to the table and unrolled these two large sections that actually made up a whole hide. It was beautiful glossy red and she commented how it was rare to find hides without defect holes in them. I purchased both of them. Now, what to do with this leather? So, I came up with box idea where I could have large sections of leather without the edges being exposed. After that the design kept evolving as I was building the boxes. Turned into a rather long and detailed project that involved use of a lot of different machines and techniques.
The video turned out good, but we had to crunch over 6 hours of tape into less than one hour. This could have been broken into series, but I would call down to the video studio guys and say "taping in 15 minutes" and they would drop what they were doing and come tape whatever I was working on. Nothing was scripted and I just worked on it at leisure. I did not plan certain jobs and just went to the shop when I had some extra time. However, I think they did a great job of editing and grasping the main parts of the project. All of it was done in-house (taping, editing etc.).
I still have a lot of that leather left so might end up making unique benches with backs on them for the grandkids again. I have literally tons of figured woods that I have accumulated over the years so I better start using some of it up.