The Case for "Good Enough"

Love seeing all of the fab projects. Yes, please keep sharing. 

Kreb & Jeff351 seemed to have zero'd in on my drawing ability!

(at least I had a plan...)

Fortunately, I was able to translate this:

Into this:

I envy people that have an eye for drawing, and perspective, but seems like most of what I visualize then put on paper turns out more like Picasso (a woman with both eyes on the same side of her face) .  But hey, I get the results I'm aiming for ;)

I'm a firm believer that if you wait for perfection, you'll never attain it. Make the best of what you can do now - you're guaranteed to be closer to the goal than you were if you just waited. 

My friends moto is "Perfection is the enemy of good enough".

For the last 15 years I've worked to raise his standard for "good enough".

In reply to Randy_Forbes :

Obviously you put down the correct dimensions, that is the important thing!!

I have a set of drawings I did in 1974/5 for the construction of a 4wd amphibious vehicle. Four passenger, powered by a Rotax, steered with two sticks like a bulldozer. I'll have to find the photo of the one we built from the plans. I was fortunate to get a summer job as a draftsman intern in the local ammunition/detonator plant drawing office. There were eight guys designing various machinery, so I got to do a lot of the detail drawings. It was a great learning experience and served we well later on. You had to be able to visualize the parts and assemblies before putting pencil to paper. No CAD in the early 70s to check if the parts would actually go together, you had to do accurate drawings to figure it out.