There was a new discovery, last night...
Take a look at, though, what follows. These two
saucers were today's additional output...
Facing so may items wanting to be coated, I decided
to separate them into two different lots. Those
pieces except containers were, therefore, put into
the first stage of protective coating. No pictures here.
The new discovery? Take a look at this.
At a glance, this may look like a nail clipper, and it is not!
It is a piece of brass, vent halfway down the middle. Originally,
this was one of so many pieces of the same shape for my
aborted attempt at constructing looms. I picked one up and vent it
into this shape, and found that it was springy enough for my
tongs to be!
To date, I have made so many sets of salad servers, usual
huge spoons and forks, and I have never been able to
convince myself that they are really useful.
You have to use both hands to pick things up for translocation.
I would rather have a tong like...
You can pick things up using one hand only, but,
I think that even this is rather cumbersome.
Why do you need the spoon structure with a concave surface?
Why do you need a fork with a concave inner surface?
Can we not simplify things? That has been somewhere
at the back of my mind, for such a long time by now...
However, the stumbling block was the springy element
that I can use with my wooden members. I found it last
night. Naturally, I have been toying with other ideas
for securing the springness, and I have it now!
What follows are the basic members, still embryonic,
of course, but the basic items are there!
Can you see that holder elements are gooved? In order
not to show the mini bolts and nuts...
In the end they will be buried underneath
supplementary pieces, which will be sanded to remove
discontinuities. I will talk more about it later.
When put together the whole thing should be looking like...
Naturally, there are so many factors to think about.
However, I can now move into a new area, so far,
I have been doing chopstics, knives and forks, and
some turing work, but from now on I will be able to
fork myself out into tongs!
From now on I will be happily making small, medium
sized, and large scale tongs!!!
Why? I really think they are useful in real situations.
I will be even making "Somen" noodle picking tongs
for my own use!
Take a look at, though, what follows. These two
saucers were today's additional output...
Facing so may items wanting to be coated, I decided
to separate them into two different lots. Those
pieces except containers were, therefore, put into
the first stage of protective coating. No pictures here.
The new discovery? Take a look at this.
At a glance, this may look like a nail clipper, and it is not!
It is a piece of brass, vent halfway down the middle. Originally,
this was one of so many pieces of the same shape for my
aborted attempt at constructing looms. I picked one up and vent it
into this shape, and found that it was springy enough for my
tongs to be!
To date, I have made so many sets of salad servers, usual
huge spoons and forks, and I have never been able to
convince myself that they are really useful.
You have to use both hands to pick things up for translocation.
I would rather have a tong like...
You can pick things up using one hand only, but,
I think that even this is rather cumbersome.
Why do you need the spoon structure with a concave surface?
Why do you need a fork with a concave inner surface?
Can we not simplify things? That has been somewhere
at the back of my mind, for such a long time by now...
However, the stumbling block was the springy element
that I can use with my wooden members. I found it last
night. Naturally, I have been toying with other ideas
for securing the springness, and I have it now!
What follows are the basic members, still embryonic,
of course, but the basic items are there!
Can you see that holder elements are gooved? In order
not to show the mini bolts and nuts...
In the end they will be buried underneath
supplementary pieces, which will be sanded to remove
discontinuities. I will talk more about it later.
When put together the whole thing should be looking like...
Naturally, there are so many factors to think about.
However, I can now move into a new area, so far,
I have been doing chopstics, knives and forks, and
some turing work, but from now on I will be able to
fork myself out into tongs!
From now on I will be happily making small, medium
sized, and large scale tongs!!!
Why? I really think they are useful in real situations.
I will be even making "Somen" noodle picking tongs
for my own use!
