My grandfather made a bunch of spinning wheels in retirement because he started turnery as a hobby and one of my aunts had got into the eco scene and kept some sheep, so she had wool and wanted to spin it.

And the spinning wheels were surprisingly popular as decorative items among the stuff he made even with non-sheep owning relatives, though they did work. Not sure how effectively as he was self-taught both wrt turnery and knowledge about spinning -- he learned farrier as a youth, and then when that turned out to not actually be a secure path because cars happened, he switched to being a well builder, so neither had anything to do with woodworking.