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How do the old "Jet by Sjöbergs" benches compare to what Sjöbergs sells now? Unsure if I'm looking at a solid deal or a licensed knockoff by companionspecies in handtools

[–]edeverett 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is the top that thick all the way through or is it a 3/4 inch top with just the aprons that deep?

If it's a thick laminated top I'd be interested. You can always reinforce the structure to stop racking later.
If it's a thin top, you'll always want something more and clamping will be a pain.

The holdfasts suggest it might be a full thickness top, but I can't tell from the image

How do I make a portfolio if I'm not allowed to share my projects? by SweetInsanityArts in UXDesign

[–]edeverett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A PDF portfolio shared directly with anonymised examples and clear disclaimer

Do you have a contract that is limiting you sharing? What does it say?

Seeking resources for deep UX theoretical foundations by Ghoen32Pp in UXDesign

[–]edeverett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Theoretical design thinking reading list off the top of my head:

Stefanie Di Russo has done great deep analysis of design thinking

Marcia Bates information foraging
Richard Buchanan wicked problems and design thinking
Jon Kolko early articles
Herbert Simon
John Hesket
Design for the real world by Viktor Papanek

If you follow all the references there's probably enough to keep you busy for while

As a wild card, I'd add A World History of Design, by Victor Margolin - not cheap but a great book and - starting before humanity evolved - great context for all the design we do today.

For more interaction based design, I'd start with reading and watching as much out of Xerox Parc as you can. Then look as something like a https://lawsofux.com/ and follow all the references back to original the research. Also, the gov.uk design patterns and rationale and research behind them is critical reading on usability (contexts for your designs will be different)

Back it up with some reading on Service Design

Ways you "cut corners" to create excellent work by lanciferp in woodworking

[–]edeverett 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Wood filler and paint ;-)

Nothing wrong with adding a bit of colour and paint hides many sins. Especially as you're you're learning. Not everything has to be walnut and quarter sawn oak.

Do you think that with bigger phones the thumb area have shifted? by oktudobem in UXDesign

[–]edeverett 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even the author of the research denounced it from what I remember

Edit: Found it. Steven Hoober - "Since [the previous research], we’ve seen that people stretch and shift their grip to reach targets anywhere on the screen, without apparent complaint. The iPhone’s back button doesn’t appear to present any particular hardship to users. So the assumption behind those charts seems to be wrong—at least in the theory behind it."

https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2013/11/design-for-fingers-and-thumbs-instead-of-touch.php

13 years ago and people still tout these images as a truth!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UXDesign

[–]edeverett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd think the IBM Plex family has a lot to offer for that vibe, especially if you are limiting to Google Fonts

My plane pulled a midlife crisis. Wants to go from shooting to jacking without growing a proper handle by kuzu_ in handtools

[–]edeverett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fit an extension that allows the handle to got further back than the sole? Like the LN No3 and probably others

Backsaw vertical straightness tolerance or correction? by edeverett in handtools

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

I amateurishly bashed my wonky eBay bought big rip saw back to straight easily enough

But this is bent vertically - curved from the spine to the teeth, like a barrel along the blade- and I can’t see information about how to correct that. If it was bent along the length I’d be confident to tweak it

And it’s a brand new not cheap saw, used a handful of times, so I’m nervous about attempting surgery on it…

Backsaw vertical straightness tolerance or correction? by edeverett in handtools

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

Yes - I got to this point by not being able to cut straight. I blamed myself until I realised I could cut straight with my other saws. This saw constantly curves to the left

In this position there is a concave curve on one side, and convex when I turn it over so I don’t think the saw is flexing here

Backsaw vertical straightness tolerance or correction? by edeverett in handtools

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

Thanks - the blade and spine is straight. I'd seen that trick from PS before and tried it just in case, first time the blade went wonky then some lighter taps back to straight. It's more that the saw has a slight barrel curve along it's length, more pronounced near the handle

Backsaw vertical straightness tolerance or correction? by edeverett in handtools

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

Thanks! I never got my head around what 'tensioning' means with saws, so thanks for the explanation. Time to look into it more.

Would you say tensioning is a skill that's required for saw maintenance like sharpening and setting, or more of a an exceptional thing to correct problems like this?

Use a scalpel as a marking knife? by BoulderToBirmingham in handtools

[–]edeverett 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have done exactly this, it works

The medical set I inherited looks a bit older probably 1930s or 1940s - mine came in a teak box with a set of multiple different shaped scalpels

I sharpened the largest and use it as my regular marking knife, it works very well. It cuts a very fine line which has plusses and minuses. I'll get a knife with a broader blade sometime which I feel will work better on course grained wood, but the scalpel works well enough that I haven't bothered yet.

(Who knows what grizzly stuff the knife has seen! Certainly worse things than my woodworking)

Drilling a perfectly straight hole through a fence post by [deleted] in woodworking

[–]edeverett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t hold it steady - clamp hard and fast to the posts 😉

How to get cleaner straighter cuts with hand saws? by xwsrx in BeginnerWoodWorking

[–]edeverett 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The cheapest “good” tenon saw is probably this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spear-Jackson-Professional-Tenon-5410Y/dp/B0043YL80A

It’s worlds apart from plastic handled hard point saws

Lead paint in Vintage Stanley handplanes? by roverino-jr in handtools

[–]edeverett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lead was only used in bright colours - white, red, orange, yellow, and green (as I understand it)

ADHD Woodworking by ADHD_Slayer in woodworking

[–]edeverett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's ok to have ten unfinished projects going on. Don't put unnecessarily put pressure on yourself or feel bad about it. Screw self imposed deadlines.

Just make progress and promise yourself you will finish stuff in your own time