I'm going with Sunsetdart on this. Been on forums (briefly) with everything so neatly sectionalized---then you end up with a bunch of voluntary "forum cops" who's main reply's are that "this should be in that forum" and a legitimate post just gets swallowed up with posters trying to decide where the post really belongs---and the OP's questions or concerns go unanswered! The new build forum works great to follow someone's progress and ask questions about their methods or materials used. Most everything on the site concerns fabricating of one sort or another.

Not long ago someone demanded a new forum just for upholstery and how to do it...we get some very nice pictures and good advice on their from a couple of the pro shops but little else. My concern with a fabrication forum is that it would detract from the build threads and scatter the information all over the site and make the individual builds harder to follow. Using either the search function, or asking if someone rembers a particular fabrication that was posted here in the past will usually yield all the fab information anyone could want.