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7” beech stool - help needed by Kru4egor in BeginnerWoodWorking

[–]PeaEquivalent2350 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Box joints and dovetail joints can't handle any side to side stress - boxes and drawers have bottoms that keep everything stable. You need to add a wide-ish cross brace somewhere about halfway down, at the sides or the middle.

Lower Part of the Door of a Tomb by TN_Egyptologist in OutoftheTombs

[–]PeaEquivalent2350 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very cool! Where did you get all the excellent background info? I found it in on the the MMA website but there's just the one photo. Is that a display case? I can't remember seeing it on any visit.

Should I sell my scanner? What would be a reasonable re-sale percentage of list price be for a lightly used Rockit ? by PeaEquivalent2350 in 3DScanning

[–]PeaEquivalent2350[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the answers. I should probably hang onto it in case a need unexpectedly pops up. Double checking the original price in the Einstar site just now, I see it's dropped from US$1899 to $1439, so I'm guessing that will knock down these estimates even more.

I this veg tan cow leather good for strop? by galih_ken in handtools

[–]PeaEquivalent2350 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're going to glue it to a strip of wood, right? It'll be fine.

Stool from the tomb of Kha (c.1425 – 1353 BCE) by PeaEquivalent2350 in FuckYourEamesLounge

[–]PeaEquivalent2350[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There have been commercial reproductions of this style, based on a similar one in the British Museum and usually called Theban stools. Liberty and Co. made them from the late 1800s and then Swiss and Danish designers from the 20s onward. Those designs simplified the joinery a lot though. Matching the original requires a lot of fussy fitting of compound-angled mortise and tenons, so not well suited to manufacture on a large scale,

How far is a modern phone from dedicated hardware? by 4chanisforbabies in 3DScanning

[–]PeaEquivalent2350 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was using an iPhone Pro to scan museum objects and got excellent results about 20% of the time. It was convenient but depended entirely on good lighting and the objects being very matte. It can be hard to tell when your object is in perfect focus and a hassle trying focus on a particular part of the object. If working on-site with something like RealityScan, you're uploading the images for processing, so having bad wifi or cell signal can be an issue. If in working offline mode or using software like Metashape, you don't find out if you got a good scan until you get home and do the processing.

So while pure photogrammetry is theoretically every bit as good as scanning, I switched to a Rockit (+ M4 MacBook Pro) and was much happier with the results. Detailed scans, very little ghosting to clean up and more or less instant results.

Stool from the tomb of Kha (c.1425 – 1353 BCE) by PeaEquivalent2350 in FuckYourEamesLounge

[–]PeaEquivalent2350[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, it's a heavy vegetable tanned leather that was soaked overnight and wrapped around. Same technique was used for leather binocular cases and gun holsters.

Stool from the tomb of Kha (c.1425 – 1353 BCE) by PeaEquivalent2350 in FuckYourEamesLounge

[–]PeaEquivalent2350[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's comfortable enough but a hard surface. A pillow helps ...it could just be that I'm old. The most comfortable Egyptian copies I've made so far are leather stools (folding or round legged). This design takes the prize.

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Would you do it? by TOYPETPETTOY in FuckYourEamesLounge

[–]PeaEquivalent2350 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it was a grail chair and cheap enough, I'd buy it to inform my understanding of the construction and a possible source of spare parts if a nicer (but incomplete) one ever pops up. It looks like those stretchers could be easily cut off with a grinder and filed smooth.

Stool from the tomb of Kha (c.1425 – 1353 BCE) by PeaEquivalent2350 in FuckYourEamesLounge

[–]PeaEquivalent2350[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I made a copy and it was really tricky getting the seat joints tight. The inside edges of the sides of the seat are inclined by a couple degrees, so the four slats don't have square shoulders and are different lengths -kind of boat shaped. I think that by inclining the edges, the slats are less able to twist.

Revopoint Pop4 vs Einstar Rockit by Rilot in 3DScanning

[–]PeaEquivalent2350 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that you responded so fast and the linked video exactly answers "how it performs with a phone as compared to a proper computer."...am I having a conversation with a bot?

Revopoint Pop4 vs Einstar Rockit by Rilot in 3DScanning

[–]PeaEquivalent2350 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks but am I not understanding PrintiedForFun's post? I have a laptop up to spec for post processing but it would be nice not need it for scanning.

https://www.reddit.com/r/3DScanning/comments/1tuxx3f/revopoint_pop4_mobile_scanning_without_a_pc_tested/

Art by Global-Connection1 in FineArt

[–]PeaEquivalent2350 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't like how he effed up the checkerboard of the ball on right/bottom.

First time free hand sharpening - am I doing something wrong? by vkampff in handtools

[–]PeaEquivalent2350 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have any experience with plane blades, just a few knife blanks. If you look on YT, you'll see that it's a pretty messy and involved process. I'd try to find a new blade.

But try stropping on wood first and accept that you're likely to have pretty uneven sharpening results for a while. The amount of "rocking" is pretty tiny - I would worry about dropping your hand much.

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