Forming a plan.

Alright, yeah. I'm full sending this. 

3.5k in tools and kiln parts on the way. Road trip next week to drop a grand or 2 on lumber. Nowhere near me sells hardwood lumber, which is kinda sorta problematic.

Been drawing a lot. Paper and cad. Converting old designs into flatpackable versions. New designs. Old ones I never made. All with repetition in mind. 3d printed router templates. Purpose built sleds and jigs. Remembering math I forgot existed. Hypotenus is just a funny word. 

Reconfiguring shop to be more ergonomic and whatnot. Practicing making videos. Juices are flowing again. Time to build a brand. Mostly furniture probably. Build a presence online while I'm in hermit mode and channel it as a portfolio to break into higher end custom stuff locally. 

The non custom furniture industry just sucks now. There's outliers, sure, but overall people are getting duped. If it looks good in photos and it was affordable it's probably crap. We have the automation now to make quality product without sacrificing all that much raw material cost, with roughly the same amount of labor. We just took it to far as an industry. Not everything has to be made like a kitchen cabinet. The same time spent laminating, edgebanding, and sanding plywood parts, and having to remake it when Robert sands through the veneer because nobody taught him how to do it, could be spent routing a chamfer on solid wood, assuming you actually teach Robert how to do it. There's no reason to make most parts out of plywood then spend time veneering and edge banding, other than to save pennies on mass production. It may open some doors for creativity, but it closes just as many.

I could go on and on about the lumber industry lobbying to control lumber prices and how that ties into HGTV shows and magazines pointing people towards furnishing their $500k toothpick framed cookie cutter houses with the same cardboard stuff as everybody else. It's literally just the media telling you what styles and trends you should like because the furniture companies want you to want things they can make cheaper and faster. Same as most industries. But maybe that gets it's own post.

So yeah, 1-3 year plan. Definitely still needs some fleshing out. After that who knows for now. I like the idea of hiring people, though that would require a commercial space and I'm a big huge fan of not having to drive anywhere in the morning if I don't have to. Also I really don't want to be responsible for paying anyone if I can't afford to pay them what I would need to live. Been there. Sucks. Takes all the the will out of you. 

I'll probably need a truck again. Need to justify that first though. And one of those LLC thingies. It's gonna be fun. 

This is what I do, just start writing in order to tie all the thoughts together. Try it.