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The most important tool in my shop...
Posted by J.S. Decker on Dec 13, 2007, 21:32
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is not the band saw, Dremel, or any other conventional model building tool. It is my notebook. My notebook serves as a log of where I’ve been. It contains doodles and other ideas as well as shopping lists and notes where I got things, like where I last purchase d 60-inch wide Kevlar and how much I paid for it.
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| My current shop notebook. |
I first started keeping a log when I was learning how to build DLG wings. My DLG’s were on the heavy side. I started keep track of how much everything weighed in notebook. Armed with actual data I developed the knowledge and skill to build light DLG’s and went on to develop a spreadsheet tool that predicted the finished weight of components. My notebook helps me remember how I laid up that last fuse that worked so well when it is time to make another. Keeping the notebook eventually led me down the path of taking pictures and documenting on the web.
If you get into scratch building, I would encourage you to start notebook. Don’t worry about creating a perfect document. My drawings suck, it is poorly written, every other word is misspelled, but the content is rich. And, I do not show my notebook to people. It is my tool.
The photos are of my current and relatively new notebook, but I should have taken photos of an old notebook. They get pretty ragged out, but they have character and contain a lot of good information. But, this one will too one day.
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| A page from my current shop notebook. |
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