There was this Kamakura busines, this morning.
On return I did continue with my coating, no photos.
Last night I was surfing through page after page
relating to "My chopsticks" and containers and
covers for them. If I have time left I may talk about them.
The rest of today was spent on taking yesterday's to
the final stage. Yesterday's are shown here.
By 16:00 they were looking like bellow. They have narrower gaps,
compared to earlier picker knife forks. Actually, these
narrower gaps may be better in view of structural stiffness.
These are ready to be coated any time. Their stems are
really tough and stiff!
A paralell work went from the photo bellow.
And, these ended up looking like bellow!
It was with twists and turns that I reached these!
They look like worms, and they are my prickers.
They are not for sale, though... Used at home,
some, and the rest, perhaps to be given away to friends.
I think I can now talk a little bit about chopstics
containers and chopsticks themselves.
About chopsticks length my contention is that they
can be shorter than those used at home. In fact,
I even found a page, starting at 170mm.
What follows is what I showed you earlier. This is
my magnetic container and the chopstics 175 mm long.
175 mm is meant for eating pretty in quiet office corners.
A lot of people commented that they are a little too short.
However, if you are eating out in restaurants and other
places, you may need a little longer and sturdier chopsticks.
It is known that ordinary home use chopsticks are 230 mm
for men, and 210 mm for women. My guess is that the length of
"My chopstics" at their optimum is something like 190 mm to 200 mm.
Anyway, there are two considerations to make regarding "My chopsticks".
These are chopsticks themselves, and their containers. I know that
there are collapsible ones on the market, but, I am not paying
my serious attention to them. So, in what follows I will take you
through some of the ideas curently on the market.
By far the most poplular, or, so it seems, idea is to
wrap up your chopstics in a wrapper cloth. To me, a very messy
idea, and a page showing you this will be at the bottom of my
script.
First, you will have to wash the cloth each time. There is a
variation and this is an inner sheath, to be wrapped in the cloth.
But then, you must wash the inner sheath, and they are
designed to open up for washing. Fair enough!
The idea here is this. Getting your pretty wrapping cloth
greasy etc is not wanted, so let us have something inside
the cloth, which will in turn contain your chopsticks.
Take a look at the following URL, a bamboo thing.
I think this is neat, a little expensive, but
I can understand the idea itself.
Next, take a look at these rather traditional containers.
Now, there is a fundamental problem with these traditional
containers. Corners in the container are always at right
angles. This makes washing the inside very messy.
Now, take a look at the following. This is a better
arrangement for washing the container.
All corners and edges are round, making your washing a lot easier.
The docking mechanism is not on! Sooner or later, holes and
sticks will wear out! My magnetic docking system is forever!
Take a look at the following. Shapewise, this is closest
to my current idea.
However, sticking two case pieces together with a string is not
on! I want mine to be better and simpler to use!
Take a look at the following. Wrappers seem quie popular.
See? This sort of wrapper cloths are beatiful to look at,
but in reality they are messy! One advantage might be that you can
make them yourself...
At the end of the day, I am convinced that my magnetic containers
are much better. If you want, you could wrap mine in colorful and beautiful cloth tubes!
On return I did continue with my coating, no photos.
Last night I was surfing through page after page
relating to "My chopsticks" and containers and
covers for them. If I have time left I may talk about them.
The rest of today was spent on taking yesterday's to
the final stage. Yesterday's are shown here.
By 16:00 they were looking like bellow. They have narrower gaps,
compared to earlier picker knife forks. Actually, these
narrower gaps may be better in view of structural stiffness.
These are ready to be coated any time. Their stems are
really tough and stiff!
A paralell work went from the photo bellow.
And, these ended up looking like bellow!
It was with twists and turns that I reached these!
They look like worms, and they are my prickers.
They are not for sale, though... Used at home,
some, and the rest, perhaps to be given away to friends.
I think I can now talk a little bit about chopstics
containers and chopsticks themselves.
About chopsticks length my contention is that they
can be shorter than those used at home. In fact,
I even found a page, starting at 170mm.
What follows is what I showed you earlier. This is
my magnetic container and the chopstics 175 mm long.
175 mm is meant for eating pretty in quiet office corners.
A lot of people commented that they are a little too short.
However, if you are eating out in restaurants and other
places, you may need a little longer and sturdier chopsticks.
It is known that ordinary home use chopsticks are 230 mm
for men, and 210 mm for women. My guess is that the length of
"My chopstics" at their optimum is something like 190 mm to 200 mm.
Anyway, there are two considerations to make regarding "My chopsticks".
These are chopsticks themselves, and their containers. I know that
there are collapsible ones on the market, but, I am not paying
my serious attention to them. So, in what follows I will take you
through some of the ideas curently on the market.
By far the most poplular, or, so it seems, idea is to
wrap up your chopstics in a wrapper cloth. To me, a very messy
idea, and a page showing you this will be at the bottom of my
script.
First, you will have to wash the cloth each time. There is a
variation and this is an inner sheath, to be wrapped in the cloth.
But then, you must wash the inner sheath, and they are
designed to open up for washing. Fair enough!
The idea here is this. Getting your pretty wrapping cloth
greasy etc is not wanted, so let us have something inside
the cloth, which will in turn contain your chopsticks.
Take a look at the following URL, a bamboo thing.
I think this is neat, a little expensive, but
I can understand the idea itself.
Next, take a look at these rather traditional containers.
Now, there is a fundamental problem with these traditional
containers. Corners in the container are always at right
angles. This makes washing the inside very messy.
Now, take a look at the following. This is a better
arrangement for washing the container.
All corners and edges are round, making your washing a lot easier.
The docking mechanism is not on! Sooner or later, holes and
sticks will wear out! My magnetic docking system is forever!
Take a look at the following. Shapewise, this is closest
to my current idea.
However, sticking two case pieces together with a string is not
on! I want mine to be better and simpler to use!
Take a look at the following. Wrappers seem quie popular.
See? This sort of wrapper cloths are beatiful to look at,
but in reality they are messy! One advantage might be that you can
make them yourself...
At the end of the day, I am convinced that my magnetic containers
are much better. If you want, you could wrap mine in colorful and beautiful cloth tubes!
