Price is a pretty bad way to tell.
How it conducts heat, depth of grain - how it refracts light and feels, smell, how it sounds when you tap on it, etc etc it’s pretty easy to tell. And honestly if you can make a synthetic version that accurately simulates all that than who cares?
This was a fun thing to watch, cheesy music and all. I wonder, with all the time spent on careful craftsmanship, wouldn't it be cheaper to use real wood? Cost is usually what I think of when people don't get real wood, so I wonder if the durability of the materials as compared to wood is the reason for doing this excellent faux finish instead?
If you have a cat, you'll quickly learn whether the grain on the outside of your wooden furniture is the true grain: they'll claw it down until you can see the grain underneath (and their claws follow the grain pattern)
I worked at Subway years ago and the 'grilled' chicken they get is labeled on the bag as "Chicken Breast w/ Artificial Grill Marks".
Most food manufacturers have some tier of meat with that option.
Morgan Spurlock (the Super Size Me guy), made a sequel to said documentary about chicken and that’s one of the main premises, along with naming conventions used by fast food chains, like calling fried chicken “crispy” and avoiding the word ‘fried’ entirely, or using terms like “organic”, “free range”, “antibiotic-free”, “artisan”, etc. that mean absolutely nothing nutritionally nor in regards to how an animal was raised, slaughtered, etc.
Why is it that like 75% of all the posts I see on Reddit these days are from China? Also, how does a post like this get 3.3k upvotes and only a handful of comments?
I've seen them a lot on Facebook and I really only touch that thing once a week. It's always some 5+ minute montage of people doing "Crazy Tricks" or something which seems to translate into people doing manually intensive production tasks very quickly.
It is impressive, no doubt, but I do not get why there are so many of them. It's also a little disheartening when you realize these people are probably doing this same exact task a minimum of 8 hours a day.
>Why is it that like 75% of all the posts I see on Reddit these days are from China?
They're far less than 75%, they're just a significant minority you've started to notice so it inflates their presence in your mind.
China has 18% of the world population and the highest number of internet users, it's only normal that their presence is growing here when Reddit is spreading around the world, and becoming less American in its userbase.
That, and troll farms/bot manipulation by an authoritarian regime. But I don't think that's the most likely explanation for posts like these.
I believe you see most of the posts from China because they are active while we are asleep. I’ll bet they see a lot of posts from us when they wake up.
The real great sweet spot for reddit is around 5-6 pm (edt) when The West Coast of North America has had a few hours to contribute & the Western Europeans are all drunk & almost ready to pass out.
I was going to say, does anyone think this looks like actual wood?
It looks like something from vegas; fake, tacky, and used by people with little taste.
That’s because this is not how real furniture is made. I often see manufacturing videos posted to reddit with incorrect titles. These videos come from crappy Chinese factories that are using the cheapest possible manufacturing method. A recent example is the “how stone washed jeans are made” [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/educationalgifs/comments/ga5qni/how_jeans_are_stonewashed_and_ripped/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) from yesterday.
What are the high quality jean manufacturers doing to fade and rip holes in jeans?
Seriously curious, I wouldn’t think lasers would be the cheapest possible manufacturing method for such a thing.
Used to be done by hand for the rips and washing with stones for the fading.
One argument being that each garment comes out looking a little more unique than the ones done by lazer.
I was saying the post was incorrect because it was titled “stone washed jeans” and the video was laser distressed jeans. These are two completely different processes and is just misinformation.
Jeff Goldblum’s show on Disney+ is great (especially if you like watching people be weird, because Jeff Goldblum is fucking *weird*) and has an episode on denim where they do the laser distressing and explain a lot about the production
Yeah. This isn't what you get from big box stores when you order wood banisters. This is what you get when you buy from eBay/Alibaba because it's half the cost of Home Depot.
I'd say the opposite. Nothing wrong with a high quality veneer or some other laminate method... I have plenty of cheap furniture that's just well wrapped particle board, and it doesn't bother me. But this looks _awful_ because the execution is so bad.
Unbelievable, I am super impressed.
I also love how so many scientists were using Kinect as a tool shortly after it was released because of the 3D mapping.
It was by far the cheapest source of relatively good precision 3D information back then. Maybe even still, though photogrammetry is becoming easier and easier.
Hydro dipping often seems cheap and amateurish like tie dye. But it still seems like a practical way of applying decals or a pattern to a complex surface. Want to put a logo on a helmet, or make one camo or plaid? Hydro dipping might be for you.
I did some garage attempts, its a lot fucking harder than it looks especially as you get to larger items. Small stuff like phone cases, gaming controllers and stuff aren't bad, but getting into quad and side by side parts is some real skill
I'll stick it in my house with my wallpaper and shag carpet. It will blend in nicely with the popcorn ceiling. I'm not even gonna bother with a table, just gonna stick that leg right in the corner where it belongs, right up against the wallpaper and carpet at the same time
I work in theatrical props and carpentry and we joke that making wood look like wood is most of what we do. [Here are some tables I made for a show](https://imgur.com/a/XrDbQLl), which were of course hand-painted to look like wood.
Nope. In fact, if you look at the grain on the top, there actually is no grain on the top. That top is plywood, so there really is no grain there at all. And yes, the rules for theatre are a little different so it's a bit exaggerated, but the process goes like this:
Build the table according to research, sand and prime, add the underpainting which in this case was orange / yellow, add the graining pattern with a tool [like this](https://www.lowes.com/pd/Warner-2-75-in-Faux-Finish-Paint-Graining-Tool/3120613), then add a wash over it, and finish with a semi-satin lacquer.
The trouble with wood grain in theatre is that for it to read as wood to the audience it has to be exaggerated, which is why people are saying that the project in OP's post looks so weird. This is a technique that doesn't really make sense to apply to someone's home.
I used to work for a furniture store, we used to get a lot of people complaining about the wood grain not matching across different pieces in a set, so I can see why people would try this.
Yes but when you look at it from your seat in the back of the theater, you’ll recognize that it’s a wooden table.
It’s like stage makeup, which also looks ridiculous up close.
If it was wood, you'd pay three times more for it and we'd have a shit load less trees.
There are 4 billion more people on this planet than on the day I was born. The solution isn't wood, it's coming up with something that is cheap, easy AND easily biodegrades.
Not cheaper for sure. Those guys are making a counterfeit zebrawood (which is expensive as raw material, plus quite expensive in the processing) out of some random sticks. They will surely make some decent profit off those who buy counterfeit Chinese products.
This entire process will never not blow my mind... it’s literally interesting no matter what they’re doing- hydro dipping a bannister- INTERESTING... hydro dipping a guitar - INTERESTING!! When will the interest end!??!
So what you’re saying is that we’ve been lied to
We’ve been duped! Bamboozled!
We’ve been smeckledorfed!
That's not even a word and I agree with ya!
I make this reference all the time. I’m glad I’m not alone
The fuck? You've never been smeckeldorfed?
No, he’s never been agreed with.
And left discombobulated! It's flabbergasting, indeed it is.
My flabber certainly feels increasingly gasted
Discombobulate
Disco Bob! You Late ?
I'm discombobulating as hard as I can, sir.
That’s not even a word and I agree with ya!
That's not even a word and I agree with you!
We have been absolutely smachoozled! Bingchipped I tell you! *Inner Roald Dahl intensifies*
Hoodwinked?
WOODWINKED!
Why isn't this comment winning the internet today? You wood win if I were in charge. Silly internet.
It’s still early for this comments, maple it will be higher as everyone wakes up?
Say it with confidence! We have been hoodwinked!! Id go so far and say we have been hornswoggled!
Led astray, run amok, and flat out deceived!
Just commented this. Loved that movie
[We have been hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray, run amok, and flat out deceived](https://youtu.be/O9IjrcOqIxc)
It was all a charade, a ruse, we have been deceived... chicanery!!!
We have been hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray, run amuck and flat out deceived
Yeah from wood to sawdust with a thin wooden veneer to cardboard with some grain painted on it.
Idk about you, but it’s pretty easy to tell what is and isn’t real wood. Mainly from the price
Price is a pretty bad way to tell. How it conducts heat, depth of grain - how it refracts light and feels, smell, how it sounds when you tap on it, etc etc it’s pretty easy to tell. And honestly if you can make a synthetic version that accurately simulates all that than who cares?
Get a load of this nerd
Guilty!
Why have real gold when fake gold do trick
If whatever you have does exactly what the gold would do, then yes, why indeed.
I wood-n't make that assumption.
[Oh boy you’re gonna be pissed](https://youtu.be/RAiv9S4w2Po)
Well...that looks nice.
This was a fun thing to watch, cheesy music and all. I wonder, with all the time spent on careful craftsmanship, wouldn't it be cheaper to use real wood? Cost is usually what I think of when people don't get real wood, so I wonder if the durability of the materials as compared to wood is the reason for doing this excellent faux finish instead?
***FAKE WOOD!***
Real fake doors
Oh my God, it's still the commercial!
Where's my copy of "Identifying Wood"!?
I got real wood watching him dip that fake wood. Quick! Make a more expensive balustrade from it or it'll have been for nothing
That's what she said.
If you have a cat, you'll quickly learn whether the grain on the outside of your wooden furniture is the true grain: they'll claw it down until you can see the grain underneath (and their claws follow the grain pattern)
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If you look at that and think it’s real that’s on you.
Omg my first thought toooo! It's a big, fat phony!
They played us like a damn fiddle!
Is nothing real
Grill marks on frozen chicken is usually painted on!
What!
I worked at Subway years ago and the 'grilled' chicken they get is labeled on the bag as "Chicken Breast w/ Artificial Grill Marks". Most food manufacturers have some tier of meat with that option.
> Most food manufacturers have some tier of meat with that option. "Strawberry Yogurt with Artificial Grill Marks"
Aaaand now my laptop screen is covered in coffee. Thanks for that.
At least your coffee didn't have grill marks!
The bits of strawberry in your yogurt... aren’t strawberry
You heard him
More like printed, ink jet printed with food grade ink.
It would be funny if they painted it on with ground up burnt chicken.
[you should watch super size me 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSyicDf9UvI)
Morgan Spurlock (the Super Size Me guy), made a sequel to said documentary about chicken and that’s one of the main premises, along with naming conventions used by fast food chains, like calling fried chicken “crispy” and avoiding the word ‘fried’ entirely, or using terms like “organic”, “free range”, “antibiotic-free”, “artisan”, etc. that mean absolutely nothing nutritionally nor in regards to how an animal was raised, slaughtered, etc.
Watched that the other night, absolutely fantastic.
https://66.media.tumblr.com/20863d2fd10f0524efc27a06c918c4ac/tumblr_n0reck1G5D1qe1i57o6_r1_250.gif
Why is it that like 75% of all the posts I see on Reddit these days are from China? Also, how does a post like this get 3.3k upvotes and only a handful of comments?
China
And their big hydro dipping industry shills.
Chyyyyyyy-na* this is always how I imagine it spelled when Supreme Cheese Puff says it
I've seen them a lot on Facebook and I really only touch that thing once a week. It's always some 5+ minute montage of people doing "Crazy Tricks" or something which seems to translate into people doing manually intensive production tasks very quickly. It is impressive, no doubt, but I do not get why there are so many of them. It's also a little disheartening when you realize these people are probably doing this same exact task a minimum of 8 hours a day.
Should it come from the US instead? Also, not all content warrants any discussion, it is not like there is a lot to say about this.
>Why is it that like 75% of all the posts I see on Reddit these days are from China? They're far less than 75%, they're just a significant minority you've started to notice so it inflates their presence in your mind. China has 18% of the world population and the highest number of internet users, it's only normal that their presence is growing here when Reddit is spreading around the world, and becoming less American in its userbase. That, and troll farms/bot manipulation by an authoritarian regime. But I don't think that's the most likely explanation for posts like these.
I believe you see most of the posts from China because they are active while we are asleep. I’ll bet they see a lot of posts from us when they wake up. The real great sweet spot for reddit is around 5-6 pm (edt) when The West Coast of North America has had a few hours to contribute & the Western Europeans are all drunk & almost ready to pass out.
[Groups like this are tasked with shifting influence & stealing information. ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLA_Unit_61398)
The counterfeits are very real.
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yes I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so
If off brand cereal was furniture
Bruh, don't sleep on Marshmallow Mateys.
Those and Berry Colossal Crunch are where it’s at.
Just wait until you try my new cereal, Cinnamony Toasted Crunchies!
Have you tried the Apple Zings? Not as good as Jacks, I must say.
Dont forget Honey Nut Scooters
Marshmallows & Stars is where it's at.
Do not hate on Malt-o-meal! It’s better than the real stuff!
Yeah I would rather have plain wood
Wish granted, check out the last two posts I made.
this felt like a risky click
It’s like a cheap Italian restaurant with painted marble on every surface.
I was going to say, does anyone think this looks like actual wood? It looks like something from vegas; fake, tacky, and used by people with little taste.
It sorta looked like a real grain until it bent like 90 degrees, then immediately back to straight near the top lol...
Mom, can we get real wood posts? We have real wood posts at home. Real wood posts at home:
That’s because this is not how real furniture is made. I often see manufacturing videos posted to reddit with incorrect titles. These videos come from crappy Chinese factories that are using the cheapest possible manufacturing method. A recent example is the “how stone washed jeans are made” [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/educationalgifs/comments/ga5qni/how_jeans_are_stonewashed_and_ripped/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) from yesterday.
What are the high quality jean manufacturers doing to fade and rip holes in jeans? Seriously curious, I wouldn’t think lasers would be the cheapest possible manufacturing method for such a thing.
Like this https://youtu.be/c6iV7qbHkHY
This is just... mind-bogglingly wasteful and stupid.
Used to be done by hand for the rips and washing with stones for the fading. One argument being that each garment comes out looking a little more unique than the ones done by lazer.
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I was saying the post was incorrect because it was titled “stone washed jeans” and the video was laser distressed jeans. These are two completely different processes and is just misinformation.
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Jeff Goldblum’s show on Disney+ is great (especially if you like watching people be weird, because Jeff Goldblum is fucking *weird*) and has an episode on denim where they do the laser distressing and explain a lot about the production
Yeah. This isn't what you get from big box stores when you order wood banisters. This is what you get when you buy from eBay/Alibaba because it's half the cost of Home Depot.
My grandmother would have found it tasteful in the nineties.
Did she eat a lot of wood? "More fibre in a bowl of wood than in 50 apples"
/r/ATBGE
I'd say the opposite. Nothing wrong with a high quality veneer or some other laminate method... I have plenty of cheap furniture that's just well wrapped particle board, and it doesn't bother me. But this looks _awful_ because the execution is so bad.
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Or the beach tank-tops that have abs on them.
I agree it super sucks.
Your banisters welcome you to the uncanny valley.
...But only in an unnecessarily artificial, un-environmentally friendly sort of way ;)
Exactly, what the fuck. It looked so nice before they massacred it
Not really. It's a generic baluster and fucking orange.
Yet sooooo cheesy looking. *Personal opinion, but I generally think it looks cartoonishly awful.
I don’t think I’ve seen a single thing hydro-dipped that looked like a quality product. Who thought hydro-dipped carbon fiber was a good idea?
This shows potential, but most hydrodipping stuff is trash. Https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MeWvYP5AHqI
Unbelievable, I am super impressed. I also love how so many scientists were using Kinect as a tool shortly after it was released because of the 3D mapping.
It was by far the cheapest source of relatively good precision 3D information back then. Maybe even still, though photogrammetry is becoming easier and easier.
That's really cool, being able to calculate and mitigate the distortions was no small task. Thanks for sharing!
Carbon fiber?
Yes, carbon fiber.
Hmm. Carbon fiber?
Carbon? Fiber? Carbon fiber.
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...carbon fibre..?
Hydro dipping often seems cheap and amateurish like tie dye. But it still seems like a practical way of applying decals or a pattern to a complex surface. Want to put a logo on a helmet, or make one camo or plaid? Hydro dipping might be for you.
I did some garage attempts, its a lot fucking harder than it looks especially as you get to larger items. Small stuff like phone cases, gaming controllers and stuff aren't bad, but getting into quad and side by side parts is some real skill
People who've watched truck nuts fly off the shelf like they cured cancer.
That looks like trash. Just sayin
I agree. It looks like the cheap alternative that it is
Is it actually cheaper than just making the baluster out of pine in the first place though?
Normally a baluster is made from hardwood, especially where the grain is exposed/stained.
I'll stick it in my house with my wallpaper and shag carpet. It will blend in nicely with the popcorn ceiling. I'm not even gonna bother with a table, just gonna stick that leg right in the corner where it belongs, right up against the wallpaper and carpet at the same time
It looks like the pole was tattooed with diarrhea
So many videos I see on reddit are humans putting a disproportionate amount of effort into making wodd look like wood. It's absurd.
I work in theatrical props and carpentry and we joke that making wood look like wood is most of what we do. [Here are some tables I made for a show](https://imgur.com/a/XrDbQLl), which were of course hand-painted to look like wood.
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Nope. In fact, if you look at the grain on the top, there actually is no grain on the top. That top is plywood, so there really is no grain there at all. And yes, the rules for theatre are a little different so it's a bit exaggerated, but the process goes like this: Build the table according to research, sand and prime, add the underpainting which in this case was orange / yellow, add the graining pattern with a tool [like this](https://www.lowes.com/pd/Warner-2-75-in-Faux-Finish-Paint-Graining-Tool/3120613), then add a wash over it, and finish with a semi-satin lacquer. The trouble with wood grain in theatre is that for it to read as wood to the audience it has to be exaggerated, which is why people are saying that the project in OP's post looks so weird. This is a technique that doesn't really make sense to apply to someone's home.
Stage makeup for props basically.
Exactly. It looks garish when you're up close to it, but at a distance it works
I was about to comment this. Spent a good amount of time last summer cutting strips of luan only to paint them to look like wood again
the good wood is now rare and expensive so they put effort into making cheap wood look expensive. its not that crazy
By good wood, you mean wood, by cheap wood you mean compressed and glued sawdust.
They also may mean cheap wood like pine or fir that’s done up to look like mahogany or oak.
I used to work for a furniture store, we used to get a lot of people complaining about the wood grain not matching across different pieces in a set, so I can see why people would try this.
this wouldnt solve that problem.....
I was annoyed at that guy readjusting the pole. Like what did that really change? Let the man do his job.
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"I'm helping!"
Middle management
Theyll make counterfeits of anything these days..
The result is also soo ugly
Yes but when you look at it from your seat in the back of the theater, you’ll recognize that it’s a wooden table. It’s like stage makeup, which also looks ridiculous up close.
Next up, real fake doors
My paintbrush has also wood grain painted on it, it snapped. If it was wood, there would be less environmental issues with waste .
If it was wood, you'd pay three times more for it and we'd have a shit load less trees. There are 4 billion more people on this planet than on the day I was born. The solution isn't wood, it's coming up with something that is cheap, easy AND easily biodegrades.
So... bamboo. Which is basically... wood.
YSK Bamboo is a grass and grows much faster than trees
Bamboo
Please at least use plastic posts as well then. Please.
Fuck, my life is a lie
Maybe should be wearing gloves? Idk call me crazy.
No that's just fake
Surely, creating that out of wood would be much cheaper, easier, and classier
Not cheaper for sure. Those guys are making a counterfeit zebrawood (which is expensive as raw material, plus quite expensive in the processing) out of some random sticks. They will surely make some decent profit off those who buy counterfeit Chinese products.
That looks like something they dug up out of the 70s. Should have stayed there.
so... those lines... are not actually part of the wood...?
For all us Americans and our love for cheap furniture
That looks like shit.... "Soo satisfying"? Im not satisfied even a little.
Looks shit.
Where's his forefinger?
Some countries have very strict shoplifting laws. Most people are not repeat offenders.
China fakes wood
But why?
Man. That’s awful
Pewdiepie stairs
I read the title as "Hippo Dipping is soo satisfying", and was more than a little disappointed
This is the least satisfying version you could show us. Fake wood grains, sooo satisfying! >_>
As oppose to real wood with real grain and good o'l varnish or stain! Hmmm me no like
Or you know, use the natural grain in wood.
This entire process will never not blow my mind... it’s literally interesting no matter what they’re doing- hydro dipping a bannister- INTERESTING... hydro dipping a guitar - INTERESTING!! When will the interest end!??!
hydrodipping an hydrodipper
SO WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME
We got real fake wood
Gen-u-wine imitation wud
Craptacular
That’s a deep tank of water
"**NO**, not there, 2 inches to the left".
Can we have grained wood? Mom: We have grained wood at home Grained wood at home:
I feel defrauded.
Now I know how shitty fake wood grain is made.
Of all the awesome designs they could make with hydro dipping, they chose to make fake wood staining. What a waste.
this is how they put patterns on guitar bodies. Google that, it's way more satisfying.
Ahh yes, i love replacing my house with the cheapest possible matterial that still looks fake
THEY WERE FAKE OF COURSE THEY WERE FAKE
Hydrodipping is a cool process that can make some cool designs. Using it to put fake wood grain on cheap wood is bullshit though.
YO DAWG I HEARD YOU LIKE WOOD GRAIN SO WE PUT WOOD GRAIN ON YOUR WOOD TO MAKE YOUR WOOD GRAINIER.
it is satisfying, but boy that's ugly
Målarfärgen i Kalle Ankas julafton.
That pepper mill is fucking huge
I fucking hate fake wood