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As a rookie editor of six weeks’ experience at time of writing, but with a career lifetime’s experience of woodwork project planning and business procedures, I was not surprised to see that one production process is basically the same as another. As with running a furniture-making business, you have to try to provide what the customer wants, to budget and to deadline. Quality on time in other words. But we all know the one about best-laid plans... However, without them there is no structure on which to effect changes. Take the death of James Krenov for instance. There we were on the day the magazine had to get to the printers, faced with neither time nor space to do the great man justice. We removed an item from the news pages and substituted it with an announcement about his death, then decided to replace a planned feature in the current issue with another that is devoted to his work and its influences on other makers.