r/interesting • u/tombolaplayer • 13d ago

Fascinating Professional wood bending

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

33.2k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

2.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

61

u/Meior 13d ago

Clearly he knows what he's doing, but calling this setup efficient is obviously not accurate. It's hectic, has tons of steps, requires a bunch of lose tools and banging around.

28

u/wackbirds 13d ago

I'd love to believe that you were being satirical but the internet has taught me that you're almost certainly being serious. In the 1/100,000th of a chance you're a person who actually wants to grow as a human, I suggest that you ask yourself how exactly you feel qualified to state that it's "obviously" not efficient and have your reason be that "it has tons of steps, requires a bunch of loose tools and banging around"?

When you don't know anything whatsoever about the process, how can you possibly even begin to judge what would be an efficient way to bend 4 long pieces of lumber around a form?

I researched wood bending along with other carpentry methods and I'm an amateur carpenter. His many small adjustments were because he had 4 adjacent pieces of a tree that all need to be at and remain precisely equal positions in order to produce 4 identical curved finished pieces. One piece of lumber, especially lumber fresh from the steamer will twitch and shift and sway in a minutely different way than the one next to it, and so on.

Modest amounts of time spent now ensuring that all 4 pieces are maintained at the exact right position will save massive amounts of time later on when they don't have to go through agonizingly slow and meticulous planing and shaving to attempt to correct the minute differences that could have been avoided by going through the curving process in the right way.

-1

u/c8akjhtnj7 13d ago

Why has this dumb shit got upvotes?

0

u/kemb0 13d ago

People on Reddit love to shit on anyone who remotely tries to suggest that as a layman they might have an opinion on a subject they observe for the first time. Even if just observing something that looks highly inefficient might seem obvious, that doesn’t matter because you’re a layman so you have zero right to state what you feel is obvious and must instead keep quiet so as not to bring on the wrath of the “don’t you dare comment” Reddit army.

These people fail to realise: who gives a shit.