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[–] 28 points 1 week ago (9 children)

None of that shit except maybe the AI goes away in a woodshop. Hell, owners probably love AI because now they don't need to pay a designer and drawer.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    well as someone who works in a woodshop and has received plans from a client designed by ai, i can saw without reservation that we definitely still need someone to design and draw plans.

    also im not sure how to spell draw-er, but a drawer is a little slidey bit in a cabinet that you can put stuff in and close.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago

    A drawer and a drawer are two different things, there's a word for words like that. You can say Technical Drawer to draw distinction I suppose, or maybe Drafter is more correct but that feels architectural to me. Funny enough Drawers have slides, and so do drawers. I need to take my meds

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    The AI reason is enough, but if someone has their own shop, then there aren't micromanagers either.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Oh you mean a one man shop. Unless you're already famous it's just going to be a hobby shop, the furniture market is completely fucked by overseas competition. We made furniture for David Iatesta, which I guess is some fancy ass design house. A ~40 4poster king size bedframe in red oak was our priciest standard option, we sold to them for ~$2.5k, they sanded a little more, and added ugly finishes and sold for $10k+

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Yes, that's what I was meaning. You're right, it would be tough to make enough money without already having something if a following doing furniture.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago

    Sorry to bag on the dream dude. I highly recommend getting yourself a lathe and a drill press at harbor freight and going town. Both are relatively safe tools (no loose hair/clothing) with no blades, easy to learn, and the range of stuff you can make with those two alone is large. It's a wonderful hobby, it's a pretty terrible job. I may still be recovering from the trauma a decade later because I have not built a personal piece since I was fired.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The fat ass that hasn't physically produced a piece of furniture in 25 years, changes plans halfway through builds, checks scrap for "egregious waste", nickles and dimes overtime, always has out of scope tasks for anyone he takes a disliking to, I could go on... is absolutely a micromanager. The foreman was paid the most to be in charge on the shop floor, make decisions on the fly, handle vendors and materials purchases, but was frequently overridden by a voice yelling from a lofted office space. Just because they own the business doesn't mean they can't micromanage. Sounds like the stuff a micromanager owner would say

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago

    I'm thinking more a person that builds furniture, then sells the completed piece. There's definitely possibility of plan changes part way through when doing custom work, but a solo wood worker either doesn't have to do custom jobs or can take payment (or partial) up front and not deal with it. I also don't consider change requests as micromanagement as annoying as they can be.

    If you work for yourself, the only micromanager is you, and that's your own fault.

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