Comments on: What they don’t tell you, part 5 – design https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2020/11/29/what-they-dont-tell-you-part-5-design/ inside the woodshop Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:44:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Rob https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2020/11/29/what-they-dont-tell-you-part-5-design/#comment-448406 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:44:14 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=6836#comment-448406 Thanks for the comment, Bill.
OK, “someday” has arrived! Take one of those prototypes, commit to the idea, refine it if you want, and then build it for real.
When you have a minute, read this:
http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2009/02/24/build-it/
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
I will be most grateful if my writings play a part in motivating you.
Built it!

Rob

]]> By: Bill https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2020/11/29/what-they-dont-tell-you-part-5-design/#comment-448156 Tue, 16 Feb 2021 12:18:05 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=6836#comment-448156 I found your site through an email from Hock tools.
Am enjoying perusing it; you have a lot of good ideas, helpful information, and thought producing reflections in your blogs.
I like this one in particular; I’ve been toying with an idea for a while; I like the picture at the top, that shows a small cabinet you’ve designed for holding your tools for designing. It depicts the very process you are describing quite well!
Most of the things I make in my shop are ‘functional prototypes’ that I cobble together, many of them made so that I can assemble related tools and accessories together, with the idea in the back of my mind that I’ll go back ‘someday’ and make them out of real wood with joinery that I’ve taken time to do well. I do expect that I’ll be doing that soon–since I have time now.
Your words reinforce something important about our inherent creativity. thanks!

Bill

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