>...... I sat there for about an hour, just looking at the boards and
>thinking, then I commenced cutting and gluing.
That sounds a little like me. I subscribe to the theory that if you stare
at something long enough you can eventually make it happen.
I do, however make some shop sketches or even layout drawings of most
projects. Can't help it - I was a draftsman in a previous life. I'm CAD
trained but most of my experience in on the drawing board (For those
unfamiliar, that is a flat table on which one uses pencils, pens,
straightedges and various instruments to make precision drawings - WITHOUT a
computer).
RonB