Where I'm At

I have the time stamp on the photos to tell me how much time I have spent on the work so far. This is looking good, but I am lacking in some very important ways and I am getting ahead of myself. I do not have any kind of drawing to guide me to the finished product. The only guide I have is the walk on the other side. That isn't good enough.
When a design flaw becomes apparent a solution has to be created. Going one step at a time does not inform the plan of the variables in future steps. Some people take things as they come. But if I am creating future difficulties for myself on account of a lack of foresight I want to know it sooner rather than later. If I have bent my back producing one thing only to get to the end and find that it does not square means bending my back again re-doing what would have been painfully obvious had I taken the time to work through the various equations at the start. If the project has to be gone back on, it looses something and isn't quite what it could have been.
This accounting is exactly what I want to address with this little job. So I will go back to the drawing board armed with the notes, pictures and sketches to produce a plan. It is a relatively simple job but it touches many elements of design. There is more than can be addressed in one post. I am trying to get to an overall "package."