WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
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Very nice. Are you a cross-stretchers-for-legs sceptic? I have no position, just curious.
Well, there weren't any in the plans I used as a base, so I didn't add any. But also none of the chairs in my house have any, and they've held up fine over the years. My intuition is that with the seat back being so stiff, and also the fact that people generally scoot chairs forward and backwards, not side to side, cross stretchers didn't seem necessary. But I suppose should I ever discover I'm wrong, I can probably hack them in. Probably just cave and use a pocket hole screws.
Unfortunately I've lost all my photos after my phone decided that booting up was no longer to its tastes.
That's too bad. Can still share a pic of the finished product. They sound cool.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
12hr ago
This is definitely some sort of fad, and I have no idea why.
Maybe they decided most people were too stupid to know what a legislator was. Probably not wrong.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
14hr ago
Listen, if it's just me, and you, and we are trying to figure out our relationship with one another, whatever. I have my principles about how it's appropriate to treat someone, you have yours. Maybe yours hurt my feelings, but I refuse to reciprocate because I think it's wrong. Maybe it works the other way around. We could both be commended, or not, depending on how well we stick to our principles of how we believe people should be treated.
But this isn't that. This is a subject of institutional policy and legal precedent. I can be absolutely against certain behavior, but if it's actually written down in a binding document "Anyone who hurts the feelings of another at this institution, or makes anyone feel unsafe, will face disciplinary action", why should I not avail myself of the full protection of that binding document? It's sure as shit going to be used against me. Why should I not take advantage of it's protections?
The time to argue about principles and the sorts of nation we want to be is before these binding policy documents are enacted. Your leading hypothetical was the moment 10 years ago, before the rules are literally written. After that, where we are now, it's not a matter of principles, it's a matter of the rules. I may not have written them, but I'm going to follow them, and make damned sure you do too.
Your hypothetical should be "Faction A passed a law banning speech that makes people feel unsafe. When they are in power, they enforce that law against their political opponents. Should Faction B also enforce that law?"
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
14hr ago
Final chair update. When last we left I had rushed ahead getting one chair glued up, with 15 pieces left to shellac and wax.
The last three chairs were uneventful. I changed my process slightly, to allow the wax to cure for 24 hours before clamps, and then I only left the clamps on for 1 hour. This prevented the finish from being damaged at all. My daughter had a great time handing me rags, and helping to wipe off the squeeze out. The few places we missed just pealed right off the waxed finish after they had dried. So yay! Then she helped screw the seat bottoms on which she also enjoyed.
Final shot of all 4 completed chairs, as well as them around my already cluttered table. Space Empires 4X: All Good Things finally showed up, you'll have to forgive me. I was able to give them a solid test spin on Saturday, playing another game of Hands in the Sea. I was barely cognizant I was sitting in anything, which is always the sign of a comfortable chair, which was the last thing I was concerned about. Who wants to spend 6 months making a set of chairs only to realize they aren't comfortable to sit in for a prolonged period of time?
Complete album of the project for those interested.
This project was definitely a marathon that tested my ability to stay motivated. But something about having a shop that only has room for one project, as well as having dumped some cash money into the lumber for it made it the sort of thing I felt obligated to finish, come hell or high water.
Hmmm, I think 10-ish?
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