I was knitting a Fair Isle sweater that used thirteen hanks of yarn when I learned the benefits of winding your yarn in a center pull style:
I can wind the yarn in either the egg shape or the cake shape with a flat top and bottom. You can drape the hank across your knees and wind the yarn while visiting or watching TV. Since it is quieter than a table top yarn winder and portable, I find myself winding yarn this way more often than with the table top yarn winder. But since the table top one is a beautiful wooden one, I can’t bring myself to sell it. The photos show an example of each shape. I also learned that winding the yarn is a good task during a car trip. Below are some videos on winding yarn by hand:

How to use a nostepinne:
https://youtu.be/oGaA92IjXDg

How to use your thumb to wind center-pull yarn ball:
https://youtu.be/z2HxJBXVoww

My son, who uses a wood lathe to turn pens, made me a nostepinne to help me hand wind the yarn. He made the handle square and textured that helped you hold it between your thumb and fingertips as you turn it and the yarn end cylindrical with a hard glossy finish to help yarn balls even with delicate fibers slide off w minimal friction. This hard slick durable finish was accomplished w an 18 step finishing process. I love the different wood species available and size. The size is good to tuck into my project bag or in a drawer. In spite of the 6” length, it will accommodate a full skein yarn, from 440 yards of fingering or a double 200grams 365 yards of Aran weight. The Aran wool was 3-ply and lovely for cables.
https://www.ravelry.com/projects/heyKerrianne/aran-sweate...

I often wind yarn during car trips.

About the other photos:

The two metals you see in the pizza cutter are pewter & steel.

Coffee scoop has real coffee beans embedded in the acrylic. You could smell the coffee as he was lathing it!

In one of the photos is Scot standing next to his mentor and sponsor in the Master WoodTurners’ Guild.

The cigar pens are customized using actual labels from a customer’s favorite cigars.

Another photo shows Scot working at his lathe. He located a workbench, lathe, and hand tools from a Woodturner who lived out of state and paid for it with his own money.

Last summer he worked as a lifeguard and saved his money to buy a 14’ Rhodes Bantam wooden racing sailboat built in 1958 in mahogany wood. He named her Peggy Sue. I thought it telling that he saved his money for a wooden boat instead of a car.
The boat was designed by Philip Rhodes who designed the boat that won America’s Cup in 1962. Rhodes helped design hulls during WW1 while still a student at MIT and also brought on board to help w marine architecture in WW2. Scot is proud of the history and has the original paperwork to his boat with Rhodes’s signature.