What's funny is I feel that about *your* work! Larger pieces have more room for tolerance, what's 1 millimeter off on a 198cm board? versus a millimeter mistake on a piece that's only 2-3cm wide? yikes. The smoothness of furniture pieces is way more important too, my stuff has gouges all over and I just deal with the imperfections so as not to work forever on a single piece.EarthQuake said:@poopinmymouth every time I see your progress shots I'm astounded at the scale. And then I see you hand-chiseling those big chamfers and talking about hand jointing those boards... I really need to figure out how to tune a plane. Ah well, I've got a jointer coming on Monday so I'll probably push off figuring out how to properly use my Stanley a bit longer. I am getting more confident with a chisel (and sharpening them too) though.
Nice! You can get pretty far with a miter and table saw. A bit of advice: chuck the blades that come with those saws, get a good quality 60 tooth crosscut blade for the miter saw, and a 24 tooth glue line rip blade for the table saw. If you're going to handle sheet goods (plywood etc) or do miters on the table saw (for edge-glued panels or boards too thick to cut on the miter saw), get a good crosscut blade for that too and swap them out depending on the type of cut you're doing. Crosscut blade are best for cutting against the grain or cutting sheet goods and rip blades are best for cutting with the grain or ripping solid boards. A good ripping blade helps to make sure you're not burning hardwood as you cut and will generally make it easier to smoothly and safely push solid wood through the saw, especially dense species like maple. If the budget is limited, buy a nice 40-tooth or so combo blade, it won't be great at either crosscutting or ripping, but it will probably be a lot better than the stock blades that come with the tools.R3D said:I'm looking into getting a small woodworking setup, is there a specific place you guys get the plans from? Picking up a mitre saw and a table saw sometime next month.
I moved from a hyper capitalist society to a social democracy and kept my eyes opened and saw how much better collectivism works than individualism, and have done some historical deep dives to rectify the extremely censored education we get in the USA school system. What can I say?icegodofhungary said:poopinmymouth said:I'd say most useless profession would be the managerial class in general. Before the labor struggles of the early 20th century, company hiearchies were much flatter. Worker, line-man, owner. Owner is some wealthy schmuck who doesn't show up, lineman is the boss, everyone else is your comrade. Made for much easier labor actions, strikes, sit downs, work stoppages, where all our modern labor rights like 40 hour week, sick days, banned child labor, etc came from.
As capital replanned how to rebuff this inconvenience, one tactic was to stratify the work force to pull out the possible organizers and give them a little more pay, a little more say, and then they would work for bossman instead of worker in their goals. This was a cynical plan and it's worked rather well. When looking at how it's evolved in modern times, these managers are often the 9.9% neo-aristocracy that rebuff political changes like moving towards a Jessie Jackson, Bernie Sanders, or Jeremy Corbyn or Melanchon mode of governance, insisting instead some tweaks ala Warren are the way to go, and the end result is a Biden, Boris Johnson, or Macron who continue the right wing policies of their predecessors. This ratfuckery is enabled by the bribed mangerial class who write for the NYT, SNL, were the largest donors to the me-too candidates that whittled away support from the real deals.
Work gets done by the workers. In games it's the animators, modelers, designers, and testers who make the content. The management is there for the benefit of the shareholders and corporate profits. Think about how many times you've been able to go to HR over something and have it actually resolved to your satisfaction, versus how many times HR has intervened in your day-to-day that benefits the company itself.
This management class is not necessary to create the product, but ensure labor has no real control over the product's content, the company's direction, or share of the proceeds their labor creates. This is repeated across industries. We have an overproduction of managers in the west currently, which explains much of the current political climate where new managerial jobs are being created to manage the woke-priesthood and enable even easier disciplining or firing of workers who step out of line.There is a spectre haunting polycount and I am here for it.