Bill Craddock

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.