Okay; the first frame is being built. I finished the front triangle yesterday and plan on completing the rear today. The design is based on the Surly ECR (https://surlybikes.com/bikes/ecr). It took me a while to get moving on Twitch but the end result looks pretty good in my opinion. I'll be advertising live stream times on my Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/wallfacerdesign/

Progress so far:

The first session is broken into two parts, hosted on Youtube this time around since I didn't know you had to tell Twitch to save past sessions prior.

Part one:

Part two: 

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Okay; so some lessons learned so far. First of all, I need a second monitor for my shop and some other furniture to make my life easier. Second, I need to make a metric version of the script. I hate working in inches and I made a ton of errors because of it already... I'm going to finish this frame as practice and then revamp the script likely tomorrow or this weekend. I might live stream the process, why the hell not. It could also serve as a walk-through of the script.

I need to start buying materials; I've been shopping for a while but it's time to commit. I need the same materials for other projects anyways and who knows when shipping services and the companies I rely on will shut down, I've already seen supply chain breakdowns for another one of my projects. I plan on making a live, public spreadsheet of all expenses/purchases so that people have a solid understanding of the real cost of a project like this. Keep in mind that my goal is to make MANY, not just one frame as an art project.

I started a Patreon this week as well to do two primary things; start sharing my work process, educational content production and also to make it easier for people to hire me to do short to long term projects without the typical challenges of finding me in the first place and then navigating contracts and such. I can be hired from a weekly basis (seven hours) to a monthly retainer of up to fifty-six hours a month. I'm doing this through patreon because it seems more appropriate for long term (unknown timeline) projects than say, Fiverr. If you want to check it out or hire me go to: https://www.patreon.com/wallfacerdesign