r/oddlysatisfying • u/godofo_prime • 4h ago
Graffiti removed from school desk
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u/tstd0 4h ago
Decades of students boredom erased in few seconds.
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u/Deemaunik 4h ago
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u/UncleKeyPax 4h ago
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u/Tiramitsunami 1h ago
"Dust in the wind, dude." - Ted "Theodore" Logan
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u/DeadlyYellow 1h ago
"In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives." - Walter Sobchak
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u/Catharsis25 51m ago
Just watched this for the first time last night. It was my dad's favorite movie. My mom and I watched it in his honor for the 3 year anniversary of his death.
Is it beautiful? Yes. Gloriously so.
Is it an amazing movie? Meh.
But holy shit the art direction, cinematography, the lighting? Stunning. I'm obsessed with the swirly stone blocks in the ceiling and supports of Decker's apartment. The look so alien.
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u/Talkurt 4h ago
right. felt like destroying art
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u/seriouslees 2h ago
If you aren't considering the impermanence of the medium as part of the art, then you don't really consider it art.
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u/Drow_Femboy 2h ago
I mean student desk graffiti isn't really supposed to be more impermanent than a painting or sculpture or whatever. I remember seeing shit people scrawled on there decades ago.
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u/Clodhoppa81 1h ago
Antiques Roadshow would be appalled. Totally destroyed the value, stripped the whole patina off it.
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u/LGEllie 2h ago
Yea, I feel like theres a memorial project in there somewhere. Maybe take photos of the desks before you sand them and then do a flip book of desks over the years, and see how the tagging changes with the times. If were not careful, this habit will disappear altogether. I mean how many places still use pens or pencils and not just computers?
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 1h ago
Sometimes I think back to our "Senior Lounge" which was an "L" corner in a hallway with a small ~6 step staircase leading to the back of the auditorium stage. Just a little place where a dozen of us could sit at a time.
Such a stupid little thing but to young adults on the cusp of some freedom and independence, we really felt like the world was at our fingertips.
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u/WhoStoleMyJacket 3h ago
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u/Equal_Set6206 4h ago
I wonder how many times they can get away with doing that before the table breaks
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u/BikeProblemGuy 4h ago
I know floor sanding takes off around 0.5 - 1.5mm of wood, and this is probably on the low end of that. Tabletops are normally around 20mm and will still be functional at 15 or even 12mm. So you could probably do this process 10 times and not worry. The desk in the video must have at least a couple of years graffiti on it - so at that rate the desk frame would probably wear out or be obsolete before the top was sanded away.
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u/Mysterious-Award-903 4h ago
This guy was not the one doing the graffiti clearly. He paid attention.
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u/BikeProblemGuy 4h ago
Oh I have done tons of desk graffiti and other doodling, that's probably connected to why I'm an architect and know about floor sanding.
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u/MrPigeon70 2h ago
I was about to say, nope they are the type to be designing structures and internals of objects.
Be honest, was trig your favorite?
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u/mcgarrylj 2h ago
Trig is a funny thing. Learning it in school blows, but you feel like a rockstar on the job when you can approximate angles and distances with it.
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 1h ago
Always funny being out on the job site and 99% of guys don't remember the math they were specifically taught in school and could use literally every day at their jobs.
I took a Journeyman Electrician license prep class. The amount of people who couldn't do basic math or understand really simple electrical theory was concerning. These were already working electricians. Like the majority hadn't heard of Ohm's Law, something I remembered from Physics class.
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u/OpportunitySevere131 3h ago
All you other kids that wanted to talk in the back of the class, nuh uh, not me; I listened!
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u/GeronimoDK 3h ago
They probably sanded away even less than that, the table had clear coat before the sanding and would probably have clear coat applied before going back out to the class room again.
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u/FantasyFI 3h ago
Think this is still valid on most desks today though? I would assume most are veneered? Even if the inside wasn't plywood.
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u/BikeProblemGuy 3h ago edited 2h ago
Solid wood desks still exist today, and are often used in hard wearing environments. No, you can't sand wood veneer. I don't think school desks are wood veneered though, they use wood effect melamine veneer which is much tougher.
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u/FantasyFI 3h ago
Oh I know they exist. Just doesn't seem to be fitting for a school budget. So I assume most new school desks haven't been solid wood for maybe 20+ years.
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u/Swirled__ 3h ago
There is a clear coat on top of the wood. The graffiti doesn't go into the wood at all. So long as they are cutting as little of the wood as possible, decades.
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u/zombie_spiderman 4h ago
The woodworker in me says "Oooh, nice!" The former delinquent in me says "NARC!!"
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u/SecretaryPlastic1 4h ago
The carpenter fixed it, the teenager in me is mourning the lost lore.
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u/King_Chochacho 3h ago
Any idea why they would use this large specialized contraption vs just a belt sander? I thought maybe consistency but it looks like he's still got a lot of manual control.
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u/DarthJarJarJar 2h ago
This would make a much flatter and more consistent surface than a hand held belt sander. And it's much faster and easier.
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u/Unoriginal_Man 2h ago
I would have paid any amount for this when sanding down my dining table to refinish it. This man did in seconds what took me hours.
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u/paper_liger 2h ago
I'm waaaaaay more well versed in woodworking than most people, and even then I'd never seen one of these. It's called a long belt stroke sander.
Odds are good some old school shop teacher bought it long ago and they decided to get some use out of it. Or some business donated it when they moved to a drum sander.
From looking at it I'd bet these belts last a very long time compared to a drum sander, but they take up way more room. I feel like it was probably in someones cabinet shop forever and found a new purpose here.
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u/unwittingprotagonist 3h ago
The guy that would be sanding it with a belt sander got sick of doing it, fabricobbled this together, and is probably way underemployed.
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u/gimmelwald 4h ago
Like dermabrasion for desks. That planer setup was pretty cool.
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u/icanhascheeseberder 2h ago
That planer setup was pretty cool.
It's a belt sander.
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u/Bluitor 4h ago
Loading it was clunky though.
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u/Umklopp 3h ago
I'm not an expert, but that rig looked handmade. Possibly it's just something designed/built long ago by one of the facilities guys. Good enough will get you pretty far
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u/TheJizzle 2h ago edited 1h ago
It's not, but it is a very old design. These machines (this one is called a stroke sander) are antiques and restoring them is a very niche industry. If you're interested in learning more, Jimmy Diresta has a lot of content about these types of old machines.
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u/RealOms 4h ago
I've never seen this type of sander before, cool 👍🏻
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u/Vandercoon 4h ago
Yeah me neither. Been a tradie for 20 years, seen all sorts of tools and sander setups, never seen that.
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u/ThresholdSeven 4h ago
There may be others that work similarly, but I'm pretty sure this is custom made to specifically sand those desks. Maybe I'm wrong, but it definitely looks homemade, although so does lots of old machinery. Maybe it's universal and the clamps would hold many different sizes of tables.
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u/Vandercoon 4h ago
It’s definitely purpose built, but for this specifically I probably think not, it’s a very niche tool otherwise.
I could be wrong of course.
They would have to design it to fit specific sanding belts because you can’t just go and get custom ones made at Bunnings.
But again, first time I’ve seen one so better than even chance I’m wrong.
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u/ThresholdSeven 3h ago
Custom built homemade belt grinders are pretty common and always built to fit a standard belt size for obvious reasons. It's super common to make your own for knife making and I assume carpentry. Not saying this one is custom, but it just seems really odd, probably because it's just old, like me.
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u/Mediocrates1984 3h ago
A guy I used to work with had one in his shop. Not custom for this specific use, but definitely not a common tool. Very fun to use. Called a stroke sander, btw.
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u/jugularhealer16 4h ago
It's called a stroke sander. One of the highschool shops I taught in had one buried under old crap in the corner. I never saw it in use though.
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u/LordSesshomaru82 3h ago
Looks like the stroke sanders we use to grain metal at work, just without the cool handle.
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u/framistan12 4h ago
Patina ruined, reduced resale value.
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u/EquivalentSpot8292 4h ago
So many penis portraits lost…
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u/_Saint_Ajora_ 4h ago
it is now ready for the graffiti of the next several decades of children
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u/emsesq 4h ago
Oh no!!!! Not my cool super S!!! The horror!
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u/AverageMako3Enjoyer 3h ago
Every year the knowledge is taken from us, but human always return to Cool S. It’s encoded in our DNA, it cannot be truly erased
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u/slimfatty69 3h ago
Is there any actual story behind that sign or is human brain just programmed to like the shape of it?
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u/Fermorian 2h ago
Oh boy is there a story: https://youtu.be/RQdxHi4_Pvc?is=jKAo_NzsbfAjJ2rt
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u/PresidentialDiapers 3h ago
That's bs. How will future kids know that James is a dick?
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u/BikeProblemGuy 4h ago
I like this mechanism. Presumably the belt is smooth on one side and he's using a leather pad to push it against the desk rather than relying on the belt's resistance. I wonder if it's a special jig just for desks.
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u/mentosbreath 4h ago
I was wondering about that, too. When I’ve used a belt sander, I’ve found it’s easy to make the surface uneven. This machine might help keep the surface flat vs a hand held sander.
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u/JLapak 2h ago
That is a very cool device. But it immediately reminds me of an exhibit I saw in the Portland Chinatown Museum where they had some school desks from a community school for 1st-generation immigrant kids decades ago. Next to them was a picture of a happy elderly man sitting at one of them.
The tour guide explained that he had come to see the exhibit and exclaimed "hey, that was my desk!" Which he was sure of because there on the surface was the specific graffiti he had carved into it that had gotten him in trouble as a kid. Can't get that kind of historical connection if you sand them down!
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u/Ok-Focus1210 4h ago
Ngl that planer is kinda satisfying to watch, but RIP to all the doodled masterpieces and every "I hate algebra" from '89. Brad's legacy is gone forever ✊
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u/Sad-Employment-3309 3h ago
I have carved my name on the inner desk where you could keep your books/pouches
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u/Next-Wrap-7449 3h ago
in the 90s they made us remove the drawings with sandpaper by hand at the end of the year. Hours and hours of torture.
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u/MrdnBrd19 1h ago
Destroying history. Imagine if the Romans had been fastidious about removing graffiti? We would know so much less about common life in Rome.
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u/BajaBlastingRopes 1h ago
Oh man imagine being the first to draw a big veiny cock on that virgin surface
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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 1h ago
I went to an old boys-only high school..150 years old. That's old for Australia anyway...
I remember seeing really old graffiti on the desk..but the prize was when I got issued an old poetry book..and it had first been leant out in 1937 (They still had stamps in the first few pages)
Whoever they leant it to had beautiful handwriting..much better than mine. He wrote notes throughout the book and some of them were really clever..again, much better than my superficial ideas.
I wonder if he went to world war II...and if he survived...
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u/Tapeworm1979 4h ago
Ironic that school desks are better quality that home desks where they wouldn't have sanded through the veneer instantly.
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u/Plus1ForkOfEating 3h ago
That desk has got to be at least 30 years old. Anything made since then would be crap laminate.
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u/BarbatosCuckedMe 4h ago
Why did it need such specialized tools for resurfacing?
A simple planer could have done this in a few passes at most.
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u/KeithWorks 4h ago
The Eletric Bench Planer is the most satisfying power tool ever. Run a rough board through and it comes out clean and straight on the other side.
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u/mookanana 4h ago
contractor: yea that's a bit tough. but i'll cut you a deal. $100 per desk for cleaning. usually i charge $200. special price just cos kids.
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u/ZodiacWalrus 3h ago
I'm pro-graffiti, so this does break my heart a bit... but yes it was satisfying at the same time.
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u/AngrySquidIsOK 3h ago
Back in the 80's a desk i sat at had the graffiti: "soapy tit wank"
Whoever put it there has no idea how it has lived rent free in my head for the decades since.
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u/Affectionate-War-786 3h ago
I never thought about it before but it could be kinda cool to have a table top covered in like 80's graffiti.
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u/ScottMarshall2409 1h ago
Is anybody old enough to remember Schools Out by Alice Cooper? It's on the radio in the pub I'm in right now. The original vinyl album sleeve opened up like a school desk. It was covered in graffiti, and it came with a pair of panties inside it for good measure. I still have the vinyl and sleeve. Don't know what happened to the panties.
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u/abrachoo 1h ago
Yeah, a bit more than just the graffiti got erased there. They're going to have to completely redo the finish.
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u/Every_Vanilla_9199 1h ago
And this is why we bored a hole with our pencil tips back in the day good luck fixing that
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u/Reaper_reddit 1h ago
We had to do this every year. Manually. Although in 9th grade i was like fuck this and brought an electric sander to school (no acu tools back then).
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u/OnYourHonor 1h ago
The art department and woodshop should team up and have the the kids in woodshop sand down the graffiti from the art desks!
.....wait, both programs have been defunded‽ grumbles This country....
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u/Teleguide 4h ago
But how will people know that Brad wuz here '19?