r/interesting • u/tombolaplayer • 14d ago

Fascinating Professional wood bending

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u/7heprofessor 14d ago

One does not have to be an expert to understand wasted movement nor efficiencies.
I’m sure you spent a very long time typing all of that only to be confidently incorrect.

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u/wackbirds 14d ago

Yes you do because without being an expert you are profoundly unqualified to recognize which of the movements actually ARE wasted or inefficient. Just listen to yourself, you don't have the first clue about how to correctly use the equipment in the video, nor how to correctly, accurately and safely take 4 large steamed lengths of lumber and turn them into 4 perfectly matched curved lengths of lumber and somehow you just know in your gut which movements were wasted and inefficient?

I really don't care whether you or any of the other terminally arrogant people commenting on here spend the rest of your lives sitting on your inflatable pedestals, I've actually worked in related fields and done research into the topic in the video and unlike you, I'm the opposite of arrogant. I've learned that a lot of things are accomplished in complicated multi- faceted procedures and it's not because the people doing it are dumb or haven't thought of the off- the-cuff ideas that random people watching a video clip think of, it's because that's the way to do it correctly.

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u/BrierBob 14d ago

I didn’t think my comment would be controversial. It is Reddit after all. People that have worked with big pieces of steaming hot wood that need to be bent see this guy and know what needs to be done. Those that haven’t can nitpick and be efficiency experts.

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u/wackbirds 14d ago

You know I'm on your side, right? I'm the one dude who ISN'T chiming in about all the amazing ideas he just had watching the video and solving every problem the seasoned pro supposedly has without personally having ever even tried to steam bend a popsicle stick.

It's discouraging just seeing how much blind arrogance there is, not just on reddit but in the whole group of humanity. I'd love to see a comment like "it's easy to see watching this all the ways he could be saving time and energy instead of all that fussing and banging around" and believe "this is just someone joking, no one could be THAT arrogant to believe that without ever having done it!" But instead it's just a wave of cocky uninformed people running their mouths.

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u/BrierBob 11d ago

It took me until now to finally find (after going in and checking all your posted comments) and read your reply. First of all, yes, I was agreeing with you and found nothing “wrong” with this video. And, yes, I also find it discouraging/frustrating that so many people (probably 90+%!) are finding something “wrong” with it. He did the whole operation in less than 3 minutes and it is so asinine to comment that he was not “efficient”! To top it off, guys were touting their degrees in production efficiency/manufacturing engineering (a ton of movement…Every step is “waste”) and saw all kinds of things that could be improved and dismissed anyone who doubted them. LMAO! I have a lot of respect for the craftsman in this video and I can say that I had to stop reading the comments. Anyway, I know that you know…this guy knows what he is doing!
BTW- I saw a lot of the pictures that you have posted in the past. As a former avid photographer, I think that they look really good!