Welcome to The Renaissance Woodworker podcast. This is episode 12. I have to make apologies first of all for this episode. I had some recording problems and the levels came out a little off so you may have to turn up the volume in places only to turn it down later. Sorry about that, but I didn’t want to delay the release of this episode when it wasn’t that serious of an issue.
This episode has been inspired by my preparation for my annual December craft show. I take a lot of steps to speed up the builds when I am making multiples of the same piece. Here are my thoughts on how to handle this process whether preparing for a show or building gifts for the whole family.
This week I talk some things to consider when making multiple identical pieces either for family at the holiday time or when preparing for a craft show. The keys points are:
1. Determing your target demographic
2. Designing for that demographic
3. Designing for repeatability
4. Plan the build
5. Layout the processes by machine or tool
6. Label, Label, Label
7. Assembly tactics
8. Finishing strategy
9. Consider the next project in the run.
In my current events I mention
-Build your own spokeshave video coming soon
-File compression
-Miter saw safety and my near miss
-Moxon by candlelight
-Blog of the week: Al Navas’ excellent site. Check out his journey on learning to hand cut dovetails at http://sandal-woodsblog.com/
Questions, suggestions, hate mail:
shannon@rogersfinewoodworking.com
or leave a comment on the blog at
http://rogersfinewoodworking.com/blog
Two weeks til Woodworking in America. See you then!
The thumbnail image for this week is one of the pieces I am selling this year. Would you buy one?
2 responses so far ↓
1 Rick Waters // Nov 6, 2008 at 11:14 am
Shannon,
Listening to RWW#12 right now and just wanted to clear something up (really not a big deal). Neil and I had been discussing design for a couple of months before we decided to record a conversation and put it in a podcast.
I was actually shocked when I saw that he and Al (from The Sandal Woods podcast and blog) had recorded what I thought would end up being the same conversation we had scheduled. Ultimately they went down a different path, but still focused on design elements.
Anyway, I’m pretty much in the same boat as Neil… I don’t think there’s enough discussion about design among the woodworking communities. So, thanks for the podcast on designing the construction/build process.
-Rick
2 Michael // Nov 11, 2008 at 9:48 am
Shannon,
I had to listen to this podcast several times. I am getting ready to head back into production of my joysticks. Your little podcast couldn’t have come at a better time. The information you presented will help me setup a more efficient system so I can make more cases in less time. It also helped that your example, the little boxes parallels my product though smaller in size. Thanks again for joining the podcasting ranks.
-Michael