Who can make it, and what will they charge?
Station 2 of 5 on the road every made thing goes down. Find the shop and the materials, and agree a price.
- How long
- As long as you like. Nothing here is timed.
- You need
- Three people · One job to price · Paper · A kitchen scale · Somebody to search with you · Somebody to ask
- Messy
- No.
Where each one stands here.
- The JumboHere nowRFQs out to the makers · waiting on Max
- Max, the Shop LightStuckLock the 5 V E12 filament bulb · waiting on Dan
- LarryStarted earlyStarted before Draw was finished.
Try this at the table.
One for each object. A grayed-out one is not us being lazy. It is a thing that cannot honestly be done until somebody clears the gate written on it. Do any one of the open ones, then stamp your card.
Ask three shops the same question.
The same drawing goes to three Wisconsin shops. They will quote different numbers for identical work, sometimes by a lot, and we will show you the spread and which one we picked.
IdeaA quote. Same work, different prices, and the cheapest one is not automatically the answer.
Help us find a bulb that does not exist yet.
Max's head is a light bulb, which was the whole joke until it became the whole problem. We need one that runs on five volts so it is safe to hand a person, looks like an old filament bulb, and is not heavier than sixty grams or he tips over. We have not found it. This is what being stuck looks like, and it is why no wood has been cut on him.
IdeaRequirements. One rule is easy. Three rules at the same time is why this is stuck.
Find out who near you sews.
Everything else on this bench is wood, and we know shops that cut wood. Larry is cloth, and sewing is a different trade with different people in it. A bear maker in Wisconsin said yes to sewing the first one, and the pattern is with her. Nobody has sewn him yet. Ask the grown-ups near you who mends things, or who has a sewing machine in a closet. That is the question we asked.
IdeaA maker is a person with a skill, not a factory. Different material, different person.
That is the end of this one
The word for what you just did is sourcing.
Sourcing is what a grown-up calls this station on a resume. It is one of five, it always happens in this order, and skipping it does not save you the work. It only moves the work to a later station where it costs more.
Where to go now