A wise business mentor of mine, gave me four "keys to success in business". One of them was "Have a healthy dis-content for the way things are done". Over the years, those four keys to success in business have helped me evaluate my own decisions as I navigate down my career path.
Back in the day, and I'm not quite certain how long ago that was, the state of the art measuring tool for laying out a room full of cabinets was the "storey pole" or some called them layout rods or storey rods. Whatever the proper name for them really was, they were essentially two long sticks of softwood which the cabinet maker made pencil marks on. With four sides of a square set of rods, a cabinet maker could layout a whole house full of cabinets...one room on each side of the rod...uppers on one edge of a side and bases on the opposite edge of the rod.
As a very small business in a huge industry that is rich with the warmest people you'd ever want to come know, it's kinda hard to draw a real distinction between friends and clients and vendors. I'd like to announce the addition of a few new clients and friends of Craftsman Woodworks Engineering Services.
The cabinet manufacturing industry engine is fueled by a class of software I'll call Cabinet Design Software, a sub-class of CADM ( Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing ) software. This is not to be confused with Kitchen Design Software but frequently is anyhow. The focus of cabinet design software revolves around the manufacturing processes of custom built and production built cabinets such as design, materials purchasing, sales, engineering, manufacturing, and insta