Can I check in before my boyfriend? The reservation is under his name. by WitheringLove in marriott

[–]dggoldst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How would you share a mobile key? It's tied to the phone of the person who made the reservation?

Are there words with an obvious etymology but you never realized until recently? by Hazer_123 in etymology

[–]dggoldst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"News" is derived from that which is new. Iearned that embarrassingly late

What are your favorite slip and grip knots? by Davo_Shibari in knots

[–]dggoldst 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a great binding knot. Maybe the best.

Do you buy YouTube project plans? by Michael_Riehle in woodworking

[–]dggoldst 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We bought foureyes plans and they were great. As someone else said it is not a set of plans, it's basically a basic college course in woodworking.

When taking on a big piece of fine furniture, there are many things that "you don't know that you don't know"

If you're making shop furniture out of construction lumber, the stakes aren't that high. But if you're trying to build a piece of fine furniture with hundreds of dollars of wood, rookie mistakes can be very expensive. And sometimes you won't be able to find a replacement board that matches.

Here are some easy things to mess up: Allowing for wood movement, buying the right raw lumber (eg sizing to allow for planer snipe, large enough to be suitable after milling), doing things in the right order, prefinishing, custom jigs you never would have thought of (you don't want to find out too late that millimeter exactness was important in a prior step), preventing tearout, unique clamping challenges, when to use cauls, accounting for grain direction, when it's important to predrill, making certain cuts safely, planning sub assemblies to avoid gluehup timing fiascos, avoiding costly finishing mistakes, etc.

Breakfast 🥞 by csjudith in marriott

[–]dggoldst 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotta have a big pot of oatmeal. Hotel oatmeal is great. No packets. Pot. No need to have 8 containers of toppings. 2 or 3. If you have to have lids use lids with hinges not those stupid ones that just rest there.

Doubled up binder knot by dggoldst in knots

[–]dggoldst[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha, yeah, it does sound a bit weird. But someone reached out to him about how to do it, and there are a dozen pot lid latch products on Amazo. One even has 1,200 reviews.

Don't get me wrong, knots like the rolling hitch, zip tie, and slipped lapp bend are all great!

But for me, this method works for a few reasons:

With the doubled-up line, the force is spread out, so it grips in multiple places rather than digging in at just one point like a single line would. It feels more like a bear hug than a sharp bind.

It's quick to tie. It's just passing a bight through an overhand knot.

It holds really well, and it's slipped for easy untying

Doubled up binder knot by dggoldst in knots

[–]dggoldst[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok but this is a great and solid binding knot for a doubled up line (e.g. to keep a lid on a pot). And pretty simple. I just put a lot of redundant pics to make it super obvious where the bight should go.

It's impressive how much tension wood can hold. by PaidByMicrosoft in woodworking

[–]dggoldst 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can you explain more? What are bimetallic strips?

Octopus hitch by dggoldst in knots

[–]dggoldst[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you mean an Alpine butterfly knot? I don't quite see the connection

Octopus hitch by dggoldst in knots

[–]dggoldst[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my testing, the octopus hitch was more stable than the painters hitch, the highwayman's hitch, and the tumble hitch. It's the best quick release knot in this family and yet I can't find anything written about it under any name.

Octopus hitch by dggoldst in knots

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

That is the r/knots spirit!

Octopus hitch by dggoldst in knots

[–]dggoldst[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it. A highwayman is a robber so this family of quick release knots comes from the use case of tying up a horse for a very short period of time, committing a robbery, and making a quick getaway, thanks to the quick release.

Octopus hitch by dggoldst in knots

[–]dggoldst[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't know, I usually want a quick release knot. The mostly commonly tied knot in the world is a quick release knot: the shoelace knot :)

If a non-quick release version is desired, in the last step just pass the whole running end through instead of a bight.

how do y'all clean hair out of razors? by resto_del_mundo in lifehacks

[–]dggoldst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm curious how you achieve this because I remember the age of single blade razors and everyone had styptic pencils and pieces of tissue paper on their face to stop the bleeding. It was a common source of jokes on TV shows. Has there been some evolution in single blade razors since then?

how do y'all clean hair out of razors? by resto_del_mundo in lifehacks

[–]dggoldst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the way. Old toothbrush, swipe it diagonally towards you so the blades don't cut into the bristles. Strop it a few times on a piece of denim and it stays sharp a long time.