Re: Striving for perfection?
Posted: Tue 30 Sep, 2008 8:46 pm
thats what its about half the time. finding the right techniques so you dont price the job out of the door before it starts.
Not the cost of materials or the "demographic" locally, its finding the time to learn something new. Perhaps that the difference between a PITA job and a bog-standard.
I guess that is the "challenge" of the job, figuring stuff out. A lot of the learning curve when I started was taking stuff apart to see how other people had done it.
Heres a job I have been putting off for, erm, fifteen years. A japanese wedding kimono.
I have not got the faintest idea where to start, and for sure unless I spend a few DAYS on it, and then put it about that I am the kimono framing specialist, apart from a big wall on the landing that I wont ever have to paint again, it'll be experience I'll probably never need again.
bet you if you ask in another 15 years if its been framed, I'll say no. but i know there are people on this forum who have done wedding dresses etc and not even broke into a sweat.
If you get your web site up soon, with that record display on it, you'll have people from all over suffolk wanting them. then Id bet you'd be knocking them out in far less than half an hour by the time you've done just a couple.
Not the cost of materials or the "demographic" locally, its finding the time to learn something new. Perhaps that the difference between a PITA job and a bog-standard.
I guess that is the "challenge" of the job, figuring stuff out. A lot of the learning curve when I started was taking stuff apart to see how other people had done it.
Heres a job I have been putting off for, erm, fifteen years. A japanese wedding kimono.
I have not got the faintest idea where to start, and for sure unless I spend a few DAYS on it, and then put it about that I am the kimono framing specialist, apart from a big wall on the landing that I wont ever have to paint again, it'll be experience I'll probably never need again.
bet you if you ask in another 15 years if its been framed, I'll say no. but i know there are people on this forum who have done wedding dresses etc and not even broke into a sweat.
If you get your web site up soon, with that record display on it, you'll have people from all over suffolk wanting them. then Id bet you'd be knocking them out in far less than half an hour by the time you've done just a couple.