"Metal inlays I can do," he said. "And don't worry, I wasn't going to take the chance of not getting it right to the detail. I'll head up to the tech lab and see if the director can let me sit down with one of those books for a couple minutes."
After scribbling down a note to himself to make sure he did that- he was going to be working on a lot of designing here pretty quick, and any creative person out there would tell you that if an idea strikes, it can be hard to look away from it. And he actually was going to get to use some of those ideas.