Originally posted by Ken Hume:
Its a terrible feeling when a person is smiling ear to ear proudly displaying their work and inside you are thinking "OMG". How do you tell them ? Should you tell them ? Will they thank you ? Will they hate you ?
I've got one of those situations in front of me on another BBS. Nothing to fatal but it could lead to premature failure of a shed/small barn frame. So far I've kept mum, the knee braces look good (in photos) and there is a lot of solid sheathing that will help keep the frame rigid.
The situation is compounded by the fact that it's a wood working project contest entry and the only other TF entered in the contest is my own. To make matters more interesting, the person in question has listed their occupation as Engineer, while I'm listed as a Medical Technologist/Landscape Designer/Wannabe Timber Framer.
As an engineer, what would your reaction be to a "complete neophyte" pointing out flaws in something you designed and built (from tree to finished product)?
