Bill Craddock

Frames what Mark designs. Measured the GZS studio's walls in '46 and hasn't trusted an unsquared one since.

Bill framed the GZS studio in 1946 with his own two hands, back when the building was a converted feed store and the tower was a compromise nobody expected to hold. He has rebuilt every room in it at least once since, usually without being asked, because a wall he didn't square himself is a wall he doesn't trust. These days he takes the same level to a web page: measures the load, frames the grid, ships what's approved and not a stud more. He keeps a folding rule in his back pocket that predates the metric system reaching Tennessee and has turned down every offer of a laser one. The stud finder still works. He checked it twice this morning, same as always.

Filed under invented. Everyone on this floor is.