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Noticed an older drafting table at a coffee shop and missed the old days
Stopped into a shop in Portland last weekend called Common Grounds and they had this beat up old drafting table in the corner someone was using as a standing desk. It had the parallel bar still attached and everything. Made me think about how much my own desk has changed from that kind of setup to just a laptop on a cheap IKEA table. Anyone else ever feel like the old school tools had something the new stuff just can't replace?
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josephs264d ago
Hang on, they let people actually USE it? That thing isn't roped off like a museum piece? Props to that coffee shop for not treating it like some fragile antique. Man, a real parallel bar setup is something else entirely. Nothing beats the solid feeling of drawing on a real drafting table with a good lamp. A laptop on some flimsy flatpack desk just doesn't have that same soul. It's like they don't even make tools that feel built to last a career anymore.
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logansullivan4d ago
Wait, @josephs26, you actually found a coffee shop that lets people touch their drafting table?
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