So You Want To Go Into The Window Business...
The business is so simple, yet so complex. Any complexities with the windows have all been removed, making the windows so simple to work...
THE ARTISAN CHRONICLES
What goes on in the mind of an artisan? How does he work? How does she run the business? Read on. It's pretty interesting.
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Steve Quillian
- Jun 2
- 11 min
The Carpenter/Painter Conundrum
Having been thinking for years about what kind of person I need to hire to help with the work at Wood Window Makeover, I am starting to...
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Steve Quillian
- Nov 21, 2021
- 3 min
Great Opportunities Disguised as Impossible Situations
(Entire unedited and candid discussion between Steve and Lynda about the state of the business and why she’s leaving Wood Window...
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Steve Quillian
- Nov 8, 2021
- 3 min
An Unorthodox Faith and a Business Crippled By Imposter Syndrome
Ownership. What does it really mean to own a business? What does it really mean to own anything for that matter? Yes I started it. Yes,...
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Steve Quillian
- Feb 27, 2021
- 4 min
Wood Window Overhaul Works Best Cyclically, Like Singing Rounds
(First published Sept, 2020) How is singing Row, Row, Row Your Boat like an Artisan Army working on windows?? Singers who know and...
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Steve Quillian
- Feb 25, 2021
- 6 min
How To Escape Client Judgment
I've always been passionate about how Client Care/Job Setup/Organizing the Work Beginning and End should be conducted. This is nothing...
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Steve Quillian
- Feb 24, 2021
- 3 min
Chisel in the Left Hand, Hammer in the Right
The Artisan has become such by eliminating unnecessary, superfluous movements and combining two or three basic movements into one that is...
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Steve Quillian
- Feb 21, 2021
- 4 min
Set Up is Key to Excellence
The secret to excellent execution is an excellent set up. A worker may wind up with an excellent result every now and then, but for one...
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Steve Quillian
- Jan 23, 2021
- 5 min
Major Facelift
If you have driven down Cypress Street in Tampa between Howard and Rome, you’ve undoubtedly seen a new mural being installed on the south...
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Steve Quillian
- Jan 22, 2021
- 3 min
Managing Large Projects as Tapestries
So we have a large project coming up soon, in a couple of weeks as a matter of fact. For months we’ve been working on small to medium...
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Steve Quillian
- Dec 3, 2020
- 4 min
The Archetypal Window - An American Success Story…
It was an archetypal time, unlike any other in history. The land of opportunity had reached its full stride. There was an ‘unending’...
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Steve Quillian
- Oct 29, 2020
- 3 min
Once a Flip Always a Flip
So, our next job is one that sprung on us in an unlikely way. A man in St. Petersburg hired us to re-glaze his historic windows and make...
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Steve Quillian
- Oct 27, 2020
- 4 min
Wood Window Advice? Keep Rowing Till The End
How is singing Row, Row, Row Your Boat like an Artisan Army working on windows?? Singers who know and understand not only the song, but...
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Steve Quillian
- Oct 27, 2020
- 11 min
Three Things The Artisan Protects Against...
Three things you want to protect yourself against at work are dust, unnecessary work, and unnecessary client judgment. Protect Yourself...
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Steve Quillian
- Oct 27, 2020
- 9 min
Small Complex Jobs - Maneuvering the Labyrinth and Taming the Dragon
You got burned but you protected your client. You walked away with scars but you took something with you. You learned respect for the dragon
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Steve Quillian
- Oct 27, 2020
- 3 min
A Total Window Makeover in a 1920's Home
There are three components of a Total Window Makeover because there are three components that make up an historic window. They are the sash
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Steve Quillian
- Oct 27, 2020
- 4 min
WWM Back Story With Brutal Beginnings
I never would have called myself a Craftsman back then. I'd just become comfortable calling myself a carpenter, even though by then I'd...
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Steve Quillian
- Oct 27, 2020
- 3 min
Replacing your Windows? You’re only replacing 25% of your Window.
Replacing your Windows? You’re only replacing 25% of your Window.
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Steve Quillian
- Jan 14, 2020
- 5 min
Dig Yourself Out By Digging A Hole
On July 14, 1990, Bobby Fisher (Not the Chess Player), the man who gave me the opportunity to learn how to work went back to prison. He...
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Steve Quillian
- Jan 6, 2020
- 5 min
Introduce Yourself To Your Own Incompetence
There is a reason you fail at work. You don’t even know what work is. I was a stoned and incompetent, guitar playing, drop out of a 16...
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