Ness and Stefan,

Thanks for the chance to introduce myself.  I’m an IT professional and woodworking hobbyist in the northeast corner of the United States. I grew up watching Norm Abram’s “New Yankee Workshop”, which sparked ambitions to design and build.  My collection of tools was tiny until 1996 when I inherited a Shopsmith Mark V from my grandfather.  My development of the hobby has been slow going, but last year I finally kicked into gear and finished a project I started 17 years prior.  It was a pair of bookshelves from one of Norm’s books.  What a sense of accomplishment to finally complete that project!  Now to maintain momentum.

I was thrilled to find Polyboard last week in my search for furniture design tools.  What a fantastic tool that did exactly what I was looking for:

• A lateral file drawer base with hutch shelves above, inspired by The Frances Wall System at Arthur W. Brown.  For those who are interested, they sell for around $1700 unfinished.  I did a simple mock-up in Polyboard with the exact dimensions then placed it in a model of my office using project mode.  The ceiling in my office is 100″ high, which dwarfed the 66″ tall unit.  So I’m working on modifications to add pencil drawers to the base, above the file drawers, and add another shelf to the hutch.
• An organization unit for the base of my closet.  Mine is a standard, small closet, so it would be just a couple of drawers with shoe shelves on either side.

I look forward to learning more about Polyboard and interacting with everyone on the forum.  I already have some questions on how to modify the file drawers, which I’ll post shortly in the proper forum.

Thanks again,

Kurt

P.S. Your recent newsletter with photo of Grenoble looks a lot like New Hampshire, though your mountains are a tad bigger.