Last night, I was going over the day's achievements, and
it suddenly dawned on me that I had got it all wrong!
The culprit is this spatula like thing in the following picture.
Because I was so fond of this particulr design, it dragged itself into
the design configuration of my self-standing butter knives!
Needless to say that there are expansions from it, as crudely depicted by the following schemetics, mainly so that the knife portion
is at an ange to the table surface.
However, the shape of the scooping portion is entirely wrong!
It simply removes the possibility of coming up with a more
elegant scooping portion!
On top of that, it is difficult to micro-fabricate the coupling
of two pieces. Inevitable gaps, as indicated and as talked about
yesterday are nightmares!
Gaps are indicated by the dots in white, as seen below.
Current arrangement of two pieces is too complicated,
leading easily to unwanted gaps. What I really need is a simpler
arrangement as with D and E here.
The handlu now consists of two planar pieces, glued to
the end of the knife portion. Once ou have done that,
it is just like a white camvass, upon which you can
draw freely!
However, I had to cose these gaps with the current handle
pieces, so what I ended up with is seen below.
Here, the gaps have been forced to close by the brutal force
of these clumps... They will have to be given away...
My renewed design concept was put into a concrete
action as seen below.
What I have in mind may be taken to mean something like
F and G below. F is very crudely drawn, but, the idea is
squarely there!
Red arrows indicate where the eventual fulcrum lines (pivotal lines) will be, to the left of which the centre of gravity is not allowed to reside.
What I am looking for here is a (near) complete freedom in
designing my self-standing butter knives. Easy to say, eh?
So, what is next? Yes, the centre of gravity should be as close
to the end of the hundle as possible. In reality, that means
a lot of bulk goes to that end, which is detrimental to my
freedom.
What I came up with is seen below. This is a piece of Borneo iron tree,
the dry relative weight of which exceeds one. Yes, it sinks in water...
With overall weight handsomely on my side, I now have my
freedom!
What I will do tommorrow is to curve out what I want, in my
own instinctive way, using whatever tools I can, and once
I get what I want, then I will transcribe the external shapes
into a few templates and stay with them forever and ever!
it suddenly dawned on me that I had got it all wrong!
The culprit is this spatula like thing in the following picture.
Because I was so fond of this particulr design, it dragged itself into
the design configuration of my self-standing butter knives!
Needless to say that there are expansions from it, as crudely depicted by the following schemetics, mainly so that the knife portion
is at an ange to the table surface.
However, the shape of the scooping portion is entirely wrong!
It simply removes the possibility of coming up with a more
elegant scooping portion!
On top of that, it is difficult to micro-fabricate the coupling
of two pieces. Inevitable gaps, as indicated and as talked about
yesterday are nightmares!
Gaps are indicated by the dots in white, as seen below.
Current arrangement of two pieces is too complicated,
leading easily to unwanted gaps. What I really need is a simpler
arrangement as with D and E here.
The handlu now consists of two planar pieces, glued to
the end of the knife portion. Once ou have done that,
it is just like a white camvass, upon which you can
draw freely!
However, I had to cose these gaps with the current handle
pieces, so what I ended up with is seen below.
Here, the gaps have been forced to close by the brutal force
of these clumps... They will have to be given away...
My renewed design concept was put into a concrete
action as seen below.
What I have in mind may be taken to mean something like
F and G below. F is very crudely drawn, but, the idea is
squarely there!
Red arrows indicate where the eventual fulcrum lines (pivotal lines) will be, to the left of which the centre of gravity is not allowed to reside.
What I am looking for here is a (near) complete freedom in
designing my self-standing butter knives. Easy to say, eh?
So, what is next? Yes, the centre of gravity should be as close
to the end of the hundle as possible. In reality, that means
a lot of bulk goes to that end, which is detrimental to my
freedom.
What I came up with is seen below. This is a piece of Borneo iron tree,
the dry relative weight of which exceeds one. Yes, it sinks in water...
With overall weight handsomely on my side, I now have my
freedom!
What I will do tommorrow is to curve out what I want, in my
own instinctive way, using whatever tools I can, and once
I get what I want, then I will transcribe the external shapes
into a few templates and stay with them forever and ever!
