Welp... my mom watched the video and knew all about the table's origins. Apparently it wasn't for my grandfather at all, but for my mom, aunts and uncles. Most of them took drafting in high school so needed it to finish out their homework. Must have been helpful since 2 of the 6 ended up becoming engineers. How I made it my whole life without knowing this is beyond me 😂

Dude, thumbnail game is on point, the music, the shot selection, the voiceover.....I swear, people have no idea that you've got an equally great talent at making videos as you do with drafting and machining

As a longtime draftsman (now retired) I can really appreciate this video. My career spanned the transition from the board to 3D modeling. Actually even before the board. As well as being a draftsman I was also formerly a journeyman sheet metal mechanic, a fabricator, and a millwright. My first drafting methods were 2 types of CAD - concrete aided drafting and cardboard aided drafting. I am convinced that starting out my drafting career on the board made a huge difference on the quality of my work when I moved to drafting on a computer. I first learned VersaCAD, then Accugraph, then AutoCAD version 10. Progressed to Inventor and I have done some Solidworks since retiring. Thanks for the excellent video. You always seem to come through for your audience.

With everyone doing nonsense ChatGPT videos, this is the kind of content we need right now. Thanks!

As a Designer/Draftsman with 40 years in the Trade, I still love drawing on a table. Using CAD just doesn't hold close to the satisfaction of drawing on paper. Cool video.

I was kinda surprised when Adam Savage mentioned you in his recent "Good Shop Drawers" video (timestamp 37:57) as inspiration, though now I'm not sure why that surprised me. I just love how the "makers" often tend to watch each others videos as well.

Oh I can’t wait to watch this later. I’ve always appreciated the precision & clarity of your schematics! I used to work in a print center about 6 years ago, and hands down my favorite customer was the older gentleman who came in to get revisions to his hand drawn engineering schematics printed. He was working on a revision to reflectors that get embedded into asphalt roads, so they’d be less likely to come out of the road during the our harsh winters, especially with plows scraping over them. It was fascinating to talk to him about the process, and I miss those interactions

My dad and his dad were engineers, we have an absolutely beautiful leather bound book full of mechanical drawings and drafts which every once in a while I love to flip through. I really admire hand drawn work.

Reminded me of my high school days when we had a mandatory mechanical drawing class for a year. Some simple layout and lettering, but mostly using drawings to demonstrate geometrical proofs. It went along with a geometry class. Just a small drafting board, a T-square, compass, a scale ruler and several triangles. Fun times.

I'm a woodworker, and I find so many mistakes or failures come from not thinking/planning ahead or from not having a good visualization of what I'm trying to do. The fact that you care enough about your projects to put the time into planning them is so fun to watch. And as a hobbyist, it's also great to see someone who has to think about materials differently than a professional shop. The professional gets to build time and materials into the final cost of the project and can absorb mistakes and waste across many projects. If the hobbyist is even getting paid for the work (i.e., selling it), the charge is often nowhere near the actual cost, especially in terms of getting paid for time. Consequently, the hobbyist has to think of materials in terms of what is currently on hand, where scraps and offcuts can be utilized, what's available, and what measures have to be taken to avoid mistakes. When I work with exotic wood, it's in very limited quantities, so I sometimes have to take extraordinary measures to avoid mistakes because I don't have excess material to work with. Not to mention, it's a 45-minute trip to the nearest hardwood dealer. I've seen you deal with similar issues in your projects. Anyway, thank you for taking the time to plan your projects so thoroughly, and for bringing us along on the ride.

I am an engineering student from Germany and we had projects to learn manual drafting (though I did mine without a machine as those are expensive). It was tedious but fun... though I still feel like the metric scale makes it way easier than having to calculate difficult fractions etc. Also, that picture for geometric tolerances in the video looked really close to one of our CAD assignments regarding the topic :) Great content, keep it up!

Back in high school, our drafting tables were slanted at an angle, roughly 15-20, so that you didn't have to hunch over when drawing. Also, you could still stand and use the tables comfortably. Great video. It brings back lots of good memories.

I'm an architectural drafter, I graduated in 2018 and I'm glad that they still teach you how to do manual hand drafting at that time, my uncle had one of those drafting table too, although not as fancy as yours, it is still miles better than drafting on a regular desk, it's honestly a soothing process, well at least until you get real tired of it and/or have deadline to catch😂

i work with cad in my day job as a civil drafter and started when they had stopped teaching hand drafting in college. after hours i fabricate parts and ever since watching your vids i have been hand drawing any of my machine parts.

i was a draftsman. i understand the satisfaction of being involve in the entire process from idea to paper and to product. Truly magical.

I took a drafting class in high school in the mid-2000s. I still remember the manual drafting very fondly. There's something very pleasing about drawing something so precise by hand.

To protect the paper when laying down a compass point, a bit of drafting tape (or dots) can be laid down where the point is to be placed. Drafting tape looks like common masking tape (often lighter in color) but with a weaker adhesive that won't tear the paper when removed. It's between the stickiness of drafting tape and post-it notes.

Folding those large DIN A0 plans was another art. So satisfying when finishing a large project, and then folding it and putting it all together.

My dad was a draftsman and this video is like nostalgia central. The table and machine and wow that power eraser really brings me back. He always had a very distinct penmanship that I ended up copying…little did I know until watching one of your videos that it was taught and drafting specific. Love this channel

Memories flood me as I watch this. In the 1960s in 6th grade at Lowell Elementary School in Phoenix, Arizona, I had your traditional wood shop class where we would sit like medieval scribes on angled desks and drafted simple lines and shapes. "Bring it over and bring it out," our shop teacher, Mr. Earle, would chant as we slid our triangles and T-squares on grid paper. Later, we even made a small wooden book shelf that I still have. In 7th grade at Lassen Jr. High School in South Phoenix, our shop teacher would fling small irregular wooden blocks at us--each block was shaped differently--rectangular or square with an even smaller cube stacked on top. We drafted isometric views and when we had finished one he would throw another at us to draft. We were busy! I also attended graduate school at the University of California, Irvine and studied for the MFA in theater scenic design in the early 80s. We all drafted our ground plans, side elevations, and technical elevations by hand--and to scale using an architect's scale ruler. I have had several drafting tables, triangles, a horde of 2H, 3H, and B pencils, manual and electric pencil sharpeners, a Staedtler Mars electric eraser that cost a "pretty penny," and even a light greenish mat that went over the entire drafting table where you would place your vellum on and it would help create better pencil lines. It did! It was marvelous! And let's not forget the special masking tape and that wonderful eraser grit powder one would sprinkle over the vellum to keep it clean. (The name evades me.) In the 90s when I got my first theater design work, I switched over to technical pens (with three different nib weights) to draft on vellum; I also used transfer letters to create all of my information and numbers. Scene shops and people thought I had drafted on a computer. In around 2010, I transitioned to CAD--it's easier, faster, and of course the file can be saved and emailed to just about anywhere around the world. I can also use color for all of my dimension lines and one has an array of different fonts. You can copy and paste. Learning hand drafting first, has made digital drafting easier; however, I will never forget the work that went into creating a hand-drafted project--the lettering and arrangement of our design elevations showing front, side, and top views, and an occasional exploded view--it was powerful, artsy illustrative design. I once worked at a very old school that had been built in the 1930s. One day we had to secure the blue prints from the city and I remember looking at them--the layout, the measurements and writing all done by hand, and the various weight of the lines all on blue paper--pure ecstatic works of art! Hand-drafting, practically a lost art by now, will never be replaced--it was meditative, relaxing, and we all had to use our "noodles" and figure out how to lay out the design, measure, and move and twirl that pencil as we drafted our lines.

Absolutely brilliant, hand drawing is a lost art in most companies today but it is alive in your workshop. I fondly recall most of the techniques from my student days and a short time in a drawing office. Please do not stop doing these great drawings. Best wishes from the UK.

Dang, I just can't get over it. Your videos are SO GOOD! The camera work, the cuts, the story beats, everything seems so perfectly anticipated and carried out.

I’ve decided that, thanks to your videos, my present to myself for finishing my engineering degree will be a drafting machine. Thanks for inspiring me to get into a side of making things that I might not have otherwise.

Its fascinating to see how you guys do drafting over in the USA, with so many little details that are done completely differently.

In today's world where everything is done in rush and haste your video brings to me a sanity and calm. l design products using Cad software and everything is dictated by deadlines. I envy you. I really appreciate your insights. This episode brought back to me so good memories of my late father drafting with same pencil and the same sense of pride in his work. Thank you

West German pencil leads, very fancy

Back in gymnasium and technical high school, we had mandatory technical drawing classes. It was my favorite subject. Thank you for sharing this moment...i miss those times.

Fresh air. I’m 67 and still conceive, design, detail on a board every day. There are head shakers where I work but I’m the only one that do all this and build whatever I draw with my own two hands on manual machining equipment. I’m Blessed to be one of the last of many generations of Journeyman Tool and Die makers. That has machine tool design background. They call me “non degreed” engineer .. we got to the moon without cad..nothing I do is rocket science

I always love this manual work, I’m very jealous of your skills and knowledge 🤩

I too started drafting in high school which led to my 35 year career (so far) as an architect. I second a lot of comments here and definitely recommend you use that electric eraser! Its a game changer with the shield. Also that ridge on the edge of your triangle is for using ink tech pens, it keeps the ink from bleeding under the triangle. Ink on mylar is the way to go, give it a try, i think you might like it. You can control line weight to really make your drawings pop. Object lines, cut lines, dimension lines, all have their own weight (thickness) that you control with the different pens. Drafting like that is truly an art and you would likely enjoy it very much. I miss those days on my drafting board.

The more of your video's I see the more I wish your grandfather could have seen the use you put the workshop to and the amount of time and effort you put into the parts that you create. The hand drawing of parts is for me the most interesting part I have always enjoyed the work and will still when I am making something bust out the pen and paper to create the drawing of exactly what I am about to create every single time. Thank you for sharing your hobby and the wonderful results.

As a draftsman who came in the field just at the end of hand drafting, i appreciate this. Reminds me of high school and college where we did this every day.....which makes me appreciate cad. I do all commercial architectural now, bur have done civil, structural, and industrial.

Mechanical drafting was my favorite course hands down in college. There's something very meditative about it when you're in the zone.

the analog everything of your shop is what makes it different

Been working in construction for almost 20y now and I can really appreciate a good drawing, makes your job a whole lot easier. Really enjoyed watching this, things done in old school way.

I've been on the hunt for the "right" vintage drafting table. This search has been an on and off again project for the better part of five years...

So amazing! I'm taking a mechanical drawing class at my uni and im glad you included the truth that it took about 20 hours lol

This is so nice to watch. Back in my apprenticeship days i had to draw by hand too! So challenging but relaxing. Now I work with CAD but I always try my best to create meaningful and good looking drawings

All that history in the components of your shop adds such a layer to your shop. I am most envious!

Started my career as a Draftsman in 1980. Progressed to Designer levels over 30 years. Day in and day out design and drafting. 1987 brought change. CAD. It was either convert or find a new career. On the board we would produce “layout drawings” of assemblies at 10:1 to confirm tolerances and avoid interference issues. Then individual drawings for each part of the assembly. CAD eliminated that step as everything was drawn actual size to four decimals. Geo tolerancing clarified the parts drawings. Then of course CNC became ubiquitous and design to finished part usually was faster on complicated parts. Anyway, there’s no better way to think than through drawing, regardless of the tools and methods. To truly know and understand anything, draw it. Thanks for the blast from the past!👍 BTW vellum and Mylar were the only materials translucent enough to create a blueprint reproduction back in the day . No laser printers or plotters. Diazo Reproduction was the primary reason they were used. Mylar because it wouldn’t stretch and was much more durable than vellum. Layout drawings and PCB’s were done on Mylar due to that stability. PCB’s were designed 10:1 and photographically reduced to 1:1 for the artwork negatives and positives. Fun stuff!

Wow. This was beautiful. I'm one of the last generation to learn how to draft on the board; I still remember my high school drafting instructor, Mr. Patten. CAD never makes me feel the same sense of connection to the work that drafting does.

very cool. I love the drawing sequences in the videos. for some reason I'm most surprised you draw the title block and border by hand, I would have assumed that would be preprinted.

I almost never comment on KZfaq videos but this one definitely stirred some memories. I am in my 70s now and learned proper manual drafting as part of the engineering curriculum at college. So while I have some distant fondness for it, I had the opportunity to learn CAD in the early 1980s (and a bit later, solid modeling) I jumped at it and used the technology for the remainder of my mechanical engineering career. To a degree I did lose some ability to do conventional sketching there but the speed and convenience of making changes and the inherent accuracy made me an instant convert. Moreover, constraints and parametric modeling were super hard to apply on paper. I guess I see computer design as somewhat analogous to digital photography. As you might suspect I ditched the wet darkroom and never looked back. As a practical matter though my decimal equivalents chart in my home shop IS on a stone tablet. . . Great video.

I did Technical Drawing to O level back in the late 70's before computers entered the classroom, with the goal of becoming a draftsman when I left school. Whilst CAD drawings are OK there is nothing like handling and seeing a hand drawn engineering drawing. Whilst my employment plans changed the skills I learnt from the TD teacher have helped me in my adult life. It's nice to see you are keeping this skill alive with your videos being a tutorial as well as functional. I have to agree with some of the other comments, in that your video skills and overall production is extremely good

Ahhh, reminds me of being an apprentice! The grouchy old sod used to make me do loads of these! Its quite satisfying though, especially if youve got visitors and you pull out an old school print! They never need to know it was about 10x longer to do by hand 😂

Officially watching in math class! Not in trouble yet

After my fabrication and engineering design class in welding school, I love to draft at home on the weekends. I’ll spend hours drafting to ease my mind and I feel very productive at the end of the day. Seeing something you’ve spent hours designing by hand be read and admired by someone else ready to fabricate it is an entirely different level of satisfaction that adds to the whole experience ❤

This video made me go dig out a book I have titled “ The Elements of Marine Engineering, Vol. 3. ‘Mechanical Drawing’”. It’s dated 1900 and is part of one of those International Correspondence Schools (ICS) courses that seemed to be popular at the turn of the 20th century. This thing goes into everything from basic tools (homemade not bought) to geometry fonts, line styles etc. The book also features a hand drawn electrical schmatic for a 1918 Saxon 6 model 4 and some briggs and stratton gaskets…. Weird yes but it came out of a salvage yard.

Awesome! I don't know if you remember me asking for a video like this, but this is exactly what I wanted! I have since been sucked into the drafting arm sector of ebay

My father was a architecture draftsmen and I was going into mechanical but then stopped. I really wish I stayed with it. Its really nice to watch you draft.

Oh yeah!!! This takes me back to my high school days when I took Industrial Arts classes. Not only did I fall in love with the layout and methodology, but some 4+ decades later, I still take great pleasure in the creation of a well laid out drawing for the parts I am about to make.

A pleasure to watch as always. Actually took my lunch break when I got notified that this came out so I could watch it immediately lmao I’ve been loving the diversions in recent installments (the whole pizza thing and visual gag with the wood fired oven) - really hope you continue adding those. Feels colloquial and relatable in a way that is difficult to replicate even by creators who devote substantial time and effort to doing so Hope you’re doing well, B - thanks for making these!!

I have this Japanese mechanical pencil called “uni Kuru Toga”. There is an internal mechanism that rolls the lead as you lift and place the tip back on paper, so the tip is always worn evenly

My Dad had a drafting machine setup in our basement. I remember using it to draw all kinds of things when I was in Jr. High taking Industrial Arts classes (Drafting, Woodworking and Metalworking) in the late 70s. Then once in the workforce, I started using CAD in the 90s (AutoCAD running on DOS based computer with 13 colors). CAD didn't speed up the initial drawing, but it made modifications easier than having to ink new vellum to use as a Master for either Blue-Lines or Blue-Prints. Understanding the manual process helped in the 'auto' work.

I started with wooden T-Squares and triangles. Progressed to parallel movements, followed by Zucor Bieffe draughting machines. Ultimately went to 2D Autocad and 3D Solidworks. I don't think that the younger generation has any idea the satisfaction I got producing hand-drawn designs on which I was PROUD to put my name.

For the first 15 years of my life I used those horrible pink erasers that smear the pencil mark and abrade the paper. Then I used a Staedtler white plastic eraser for the first time. It was a religious experience. The pencil marks vanished without a trace and the paper looked almost untouched. I've never looked back.

7:18 Made in Western Germany Man those are old

This is one of the main reasons I like this channel so much. I took every drafting class available in school in the 80's, Mechanical, Architectural, etc I still print and make arrows the same way today. I remember all the things you do and wish I still had all of the items you use.

Boy, it's a good thing you found out early about that being an architectural scale! Imagine if you'd done the whole drawing with that and only discovered when the material arrived that the piece of metal you'd intended to cut down in your milling machine was eight feet across!

I remember growing up looking at my dad's set of drafting instruments with wonder and awe at how these could be used to produce the Lamborghini Countach engine cutaway drawing I had pinned to my bedroom wall (promotional material for a drafting film manufacturer). When I got to my very first technical drawing at university (a cross-cut chisel made from hex bar) I spent hours pouring over the details, lining up views, dimensioning and using my neatest handwriting to fill in the title block. I took it to show my dad and he soon knocked my over-confidence down: missing dimensions, incorrect representations, smudges from badly erased detail.... I use commercial CAD packages most days and having first learned hand drawing I appreciate the benefits of such software. It makes good commercial sense. Any changes or corrections are made in minutes. Your video shows exactly what commercial software can never bring to a drawing - the heart & soul of the drafter on every sheet. I still have my A3 drawing board from my uni days and you have reminded me why I kept it all these years. Thank you.

Dude! This video brought so many memories from school flooding back too me. I had a teacher that insisted we draw the screw threads in detail (No Shortcuts he would say) I’m looking for a mechanical drafting scale right now! 😂

What I find brilliant about this channel, and I hope that this isn't lost on you either, is that whilst you are getting all this enjoyment from what you inherited from your grandfather, you are also keeping that alive for your own descendants to enjoy. But also adding to that as well with your own parts, tools and drawings. Heck even that sketchbook will be looked on one day in wonder by someone, in the same way you must look at drawings/parts etc. of your grandfathers. And thank you for sharing that with us as well, it's a joy to watch you create those drawings, a true talent.

Mechanical drawing, metal- and auto shops were my favorite classes in high school back when dinosaurs walked the Earth. Those classes made me more interested in science, math and running a manufacturing operation than I probably would have been otherwise. I'm a T-square-and-triangle kind of guy and proud of it. LOL.

I dig the deep dive into the layout part of it. Ive always played at it on jobsites and stuff for sheet metal layouts and complex fitment. Id be lying if I didnt say I was envious of your drafting table and machine. Thank you for sharing it and your knowledge with us.

As a long retired draftsman, I really enjoyed this video. Brought back many memories. I thought I was a pretty descent draftsman, then one day I was looking for some drawings for a new project with an old customer. Lo and behold I ran across some drawings that my dad had done (many years apart we worked for the same engineering firm) for this customer some 30 years earlier. What really humbled me was that all the drawings I found (for this customer and others) that my dad had done those many years before WERE DONE IN INK! Looking at all of Daddy's drawings I only found a very few with very faint pencil reference lines - and found absolutely no erasure marks! I never completed a drawing without eraser marks everywhere. - Talk about skill!

im glad i learned "technical drawing" growing up!, it makes you see how the world works...on paper!

What a joy watching tools and processes I learned years ago when I started drafting in school.

After 45 years, I’m about to teach my last manual drafting class this fall. You did a superb job of discussing the basics of mechanical drafting. I am going to post this video for my students to watch first class.

You brought back high school memories for me! I took mechanical drawing from 1956 to 1960. I had great instruction with a teacher with a penchant for getting though my thick skull. After high school I used my drawing abilities to design plumbing systems and after retirement on wood working projects. Thanks for the memories!

As someone from the 'wrong way' countries i find your drawings both amazing and outrageous.

Lord, that drafting table and machine bring back memories. Spent a year in mechanical drawing in 9th grade...but we had boards and t-squares. Then did a year of architecture in 10th. I think if I'd stayed in the mechanical side I might have stayed with it. Staring at the same house for a school year killed it for me. Back in '83 AutoCAD was just getting started, I think the instructors were learning it as fast as they could teach it to the students... Your drawings are as much a work of art as the products you make from them.

Your sketch reminds me of my work as a draftsman at a very well know recreactional vehicle manufacture in 1972/73. Detroit job shop engineers were hired to begin an advanced chassis department for a newly designed chassis for the motor homes. I had been working as a detail draftsman but was moved to this department and WOW, what a difference. They would bring me sketches on scraps of paper and scribbled notes and I would transform them into drawings that were conceptional only as this engineering project was working from scratch. I learned so much with this job, I miss it terribly. It was all hand work, no arm or parallel rule, we worked on flat tables with straight edges and triangles. Loved this video, it took me back to a day long since past.

I find myself looking forward to your video every week. Your style and demeanor make these videos my go-to for relaxing and unwinding after a long, hard week. Thank you.

I took hand drafting in 2016 or so and really gained an appreciation for this stuff that ultimately made me love your videos! Thank you for these

Excellent tutorial. Took drafting in college 40 years ago and this brings back a lot of memories.

I've been gaining a big interest in hand-made drawings lately, I've always enjoyed clear communication, old tools and machinery and this style of creating things, and you left me with the feeling you're the man I'd marry, even tho I'm a straight guy.

Wonderful to see this! That's how I learned it in technical school in the 1960s. I remember the teacher saying, English and Americans will go from inches to millimeters in a few years, mainly because we found it difficult to convert from inches to mm. Nothing has changed yet haha! The movie is very well made.

I'm glad I usually watch these videos during my lunch break, because this one would have killed me otherwise...

I love the look of your drawings! They have an artistic side to them, the placement, orientation and line thickness. Never knew there was so much involved. I appreciate the analog approach too!

Takes me back to school days (UK). Then it was plain boards, Tee squares, and 30/60 + 45 deg set squares. When I got to college it was, joy of joy, proper drafting desks with drafting heads. Loved the subject.

The redlines oh god the redlines. I cant imagine the pain some young draftsman on his second day of work, getting told to redo his drawing, and then told to redo it again, and again, and again. Cheers for a really great video. Also GD&T is insane.

I love hand drawing. I find it soothing, calming and even meditational. I learned it as a apprentice at Trade school for becoming a mechanical engineer. Later as a student at the university of applied mechanics. Later, I became a master engineer and a certified CAD user, but I still enjoy hand drawing very much. And off course, we have drawing boards at home!!!!

Im a technical draftmans and mechanical engineer and im still so satisfied by the whole process and the final result of a good technical drawing

German draftswoman here, I learned it 2017-2020 and we also have still been taught how to draw by hand :) I do guess though that we either have different styles of how to draw a screw or how to show a cut through material (45° lines) or that you learned it a bit different - still enjoyed the video very much, very well explained and I love your voice and your way of talking!

I am a draftsman mechanical Watching this video reminded me of the days when I was studying in college. 😊

My father and my grandfather worked like that way over many years. Sometimes I was watching them, drawing stuff for machines or underground railroad depots. Later in school, we had lessons to draw machine prints and was building it too (just very simple things, like boxes for stuff or some other handcrafted stuff). Now I work on my on project with less skills, to draw parts of a garden railway locomotive. Maybe in some years, the train will be on the track. Your video was good to regonize, how I have to work on that project. Thanks.

Incredible video. My father is a drafter of 50+ years, still pumping out hand drawn maps for communication systems. This video reminded me of my days in high school, when he'd teach me what he could. Id love another one of these!

Boy did this bring back memories. Back in high school (early '80's) I took 3 years of Mechanical Drafting. It really helped when CAD came along. I'm wasn't in the trades that needed as I did aviation electronics and then IT before retirement but have spent my off time building things from large and small. We're currently building our 3rd house so I sold my mill and lathe as we moved half way across the country. I really miss them and can't wait to get replacements. Your videos help fill the void, thanks.

Great! Took me back in time 40 years to my Mechanical Engineering drawing intro class in college. Most fun class I ever took! No cool arm, just T-squares. Please do more like this.

I started out my design engineer career on the board and eventually switched to CAD. I can appreciate everything that goes into board work and I actually miss it at times. I still have my inherited board, machine, tools and pencils. After watching this, so many lost memories have come back. This is where it all started for me.

I enrolled at engineering last year and hand drawing was one of the first things they taught me. I suck at free hand drawings, but designing a piece by hand brought me so much relief and joy that I could do it through a whole day. There was even this time I began designing a piece at eight at night and finished 5AM, and I was happy, and tired of course. But I said out loud that I would do it all over again, all the nine hours.

Paper and pencil is how I learned drafting. I didn't even know CAD existed. I was amazed when I first saw a drafting machine-such a hi-tech instrument. Standing at a sloped table after years developing caluses on your elbows was all part of the job.

I took two years of Mechanical drafting in HS, 1985-1986. But other than a few hand sketches over the years I have always used the computer. Still have most of my drafting equipment, I just dont use it. Thanks for sharing, I am glad you are enjoying the process. Charles

I don't go to you're levels of beautiful drawings, but I never start a job without a piece of paper that outlines the the project and the materials needed.

When I was in college, for drafting I also had this eraser that was like a mechanical pencil, except it used a ~1/8" eraser instead of lead. Made it really easy to precisely clean up lines.

I’ve learned more about drafting in this video than I did in two semesters in high school

Having been a machine operator all of my working life these drawings with the dimensions and notes are very familiar and brought back good memories. Thanks for sharing this. It was very helpful and a great tutorial.

In high school I took an engineering drawing class. Half was learning CAD and half was by hand. I fell in love with that class especially the hand drawing and was the only reason I wanted to go to school. I am now in my senior year of college for mechanical engineering. Unfortunately in college we don't draw by hand, I wish we did. But I will still continue to hand draw for most of my personal projects, it is a more personal connection to the project I am working on. Glad to see others agree

Thank you for another wonderful video! As someone who occasionally does basic CAD drawing, it's really nice to see how the analog approach works and it actually helps to understand why software works the way it does.

I was watching a documentary on the Apollo mission and somebody summarized it as "a drafting table and a slide rule put a man on the moon". It really puts our human achievements into perspective with what we once had to work with and made so much happen with these simple tools.