EnGnR70, it's like the comparison between marrying a beautiful woman and paying a beautiful woman to be your "escort".
On a practical level, I made the bed wood for my '36 Chevy pickup back in the 1960s when I was a 20-something college kid. The only tools required were a table saw and a drill. No fancy skills nor tools were required. The vertical grained fir still looks very presentable 40+ years later.
