Homework….

It’s not all.just making stuff. Everything starts with a site visit..some dimensions…maybe kicking some ideas around. Then some sketches to help nail some ideas down..or I can take your drawings and build and price from there. I have probably thousands of these little sketches I do for every project I look at..Sometimes it’s as simple as some layout work on graph paper with notes to scale. Sometimes it’s cad generated..Sometimes it’s just a drawing on a shingle. These will go into a physical file with shop sketches and usually with scanned copies of these same drawings I can scribble on at the saw..plus receipts, invoices, field dimensions and notes and anything else related. I will haul that file to the site, to vendors, around the shop and even to.look.at before bed. I’ll scan these same sketches and email them to clients for approvals and for submission to various boards for approval. They’re not highly technical..They dont have to be. They get the job done. I prefer the analog environment of paper, lead, triangles and erasing shields. I feel I spend too.much time in front of a screen.. I can’t argue the benefits of digitally generating things like this because clearly the benefits are there. I just like the meditative state of being while doing it this way. It feels less.like work, and more like homework. Which i.probably hated even more! But now its nice to just sit at a table and do some work with a pencil, a coffee, and some tunes in the backround. It also puts me more in touch with the project and gives me a better understanding or proportions, materials and process. So im.already building the piece before i’ve even got a piece of lumber in the shop.