I'm getting my first lathe in the next fortnight and then I'm going to pester you until you give me a step by step walk through.
To be honest I think that these are the first useful things I've seen come from a lathe. That they are also extremely cool to look at as well makes them project numero uno in my opinion.
By the way, that statement doesn't mean I don't like bowls and weird spalted droopy stuff - I'm always hugely impressed by the quality of turning on this forum.