Makers Rule!

The creative process, I think all Makers would agree, is a very freeing state of mind. What starts as a mere image in your mind of a product and testing is in itself a process you can see before ever picking up a tool. As for me, being the Design Lead here at Spitfire Upgrades, I encourage following your own process that makes you feel confident. Understand that each step in your design process is leading to the final product that you’ve been seeing. It’s everyone’s Northern Star, so follow it. My Makers rule here. I'm so proud.

If you can envision the end product and have a sense of where to begin the journey, just know that there’s never just one perfect path to start on. I suppose the nutshell version of this is that Makers can all have their own individual image of the final product and somehow already see the process laid out before them. Accept that there will be forks in the road, and a little creative thinking guides you to the correct fork to take. Crossing the finishing line is when the 3-dimensional product is in their hands.

That 1st generation product in your hands is like being on the top tier of the podium in the Olympics. You are holding your own gold medal. We never hold the final revision on the first try. A little testing and dry-fitting it to a Spitfire is another encouraging step to understanding what little tweaks are needed to develop the 3rd or maybe 4th generation of the product to finally raise the curtain and officially add it to our product line.

Standards are high here. It’s in the name. Upgrades. Every product went through a development that requires testing, fitting, and my final stamp of approval. Then a non-wearing acrylic template is made, so that this department now has another template hanging on the wall with all the others. I'm proud of our Makers. They rule!

Send us your in-process photos of a project you are working on

( spitfireupgrades@yahoo.com ). I put them all on our cork-board in the breakroom. Thank you.