I actually find it quite comfortable and I have found several advantages.
1. The chair is comfy. Important for long cutting sessions.
2. I can rest my arms on or brace them aginst the armrests in a variety of ways to both stabalize and keep them from tensing up.
3. I don't usually move my head or back. By shifting my legs slightly,I can tilt the board left or right. By resting my feet on the edge of the stool and drawing my knees up, I can tilt the board toward me by as much as 50 or 60 degrees so that its like working at a drafting table and at that point if I do want to look straight down at the work, all I have to do is lean forward slightly. I have definatly found the ability to shift my work surface useful.
4. There is a TV in the room. Some might find this a distraction, but I find if I start to tire or get impatient with wanting to finish the bit I'm working on and thus in danger of making mistakes, it's easy to stop
and watch a bit of TV and rest instead of going into tunnel vision on
what I'm working on.
For the present, however....
AN EXPERIMENT WITH HOSE CLAMPS
For any that have looked at the beginning of this thread, you saw me use hose clamps to aid me in making tubes.
Why did I use clamps?
Well, they were what I had around the house and I have always been one to make "Masterful Improvisations With The Materials At Hand". Others tend to call it jury rigging. By the way the item I was wrapping the tube around was the handle from a floor jack.
I could have used rubber bands, but I am a great believer in the god of mishief, Murphy. However unlikly, I could see ways rubber bands could mess with me.
There were some problems, however.
1. All that manipulation put subtle creases in the tube, they may not show up on camera, but I certainly see them.
Solution: Handle the paper less.
2.The object I used to wrap the tube around was slightly smaller than the tube. This caused extra curvature where it was clamped down and made it slightly lopsided at that point. I figure it would be an extremly rare event to find a dowel or whatever that would be the perfect diameter.
Solution: Do away with the object your wrapping around.
Tube Making Contraption Mark II
Hose claps and somethin thin, flexible and plastic
Cut down so that it is slightly less wide than your future tube
Tighten clamps until....
Edges meet. Any gaps are solely do to my inability to cut a straight linewall1
If the edges had joined better, I would have been tempted to try putting glue on the edges, then tighteng till they met. As it is I went with the joining strip.
Perfect Tube
This is the start of the Proton 2nd stage