Technical Description Outline

Item: Olfa 25mm Fiberglass-reinforced Ratchet-lock Utility Knife (XH-1)

History-

• Japan based company
• Founded in Osaka in 1956
• Founder- Yoshio Okada
• He was the first to invent the first snap of blade
• Inspiration from a chocolate bars pieces and broken glass
• Went on to create world’s first circular cutter in 1979
• Started to look for solutions to a problem that affected him as he worked at a printing shop and used blades every day, yet they wore down quickly.
  • Printing Shops in Japan are shops where poster, flyers, exam papers and so on are printed. (for the need of large amount of copies)

Blade was different for its ability to change it to a shaper edge without the need to change the whole blade each time.

Parts:

• OLFA 25mm LBB Ultra-Sharp Black Snap-Off Blade (Inner)
  1. Main part of the item
  2. Snaps off dull edge
• Stainless Steel Blade Channel
  1. Allows for the blade to move back and forth
  2. Safety precaution for the blade edge
• No Tool Blade Change
  1. Fitting piece that holds the blade in place
  2. Connects the blade channel and the wheel lock mechanism and metal lip
• Wheel Lock Mechanism
  1. Allows for the blade to stay in place by tightening to the blade channel
  2. Cannot be used without the Metal lip
• Wraparound Anti-Slip Rubber Grip and Acetone-Resistant Handle Materials   (Outer)
  1. Helps with hold while cutting

Sub parts:

• Metal Lip (Part of wheel lock mechanism)
  1. Needed to allow for easier tightening to the blade channel.

 

1. Question- How do I name a part that has no name?

 

Extra-

• Process of putting it together
  • The action of changing the blade when all snap offs are gone
• Different uses for knife
  • Cutting materials
    • Not fabric (can but is difficult)
    • Foam
    • Paper
    • Museum Board
    • Plastic
    • Plexi
    • Wood
  • Different Items with same components
    • Different knifes
      • Rotary cutter
      • Straight edge knife attachment

 

 

Outline- Portfolio

Introduction-

Introduce myself

• Process I take when writing
• Habits when writing
  • Bad habits
    • Writing to fast
    • Not rereading
    • Forgetting audience
    • Taking out to much info
  • Good Habit
    • Over detailed
    • Clear ideas
    • Research

Body–

• Past experiences in writing
• What skills have I tried to work on
  • The course learning outcome
    • “Enhance strategies for reading, drafting, revising, editing, and self-assessment.”
      • Explain how it applies to my writing
    • Negotiate your own writing goals and audience expectations regarding conventions of genre, medium, and rhetorical situation.
      • The uses of this in my writing
      • Explain what it means
    • Examples
      • Peer review writing
      • Professors comments
      • How I’ve identified it in writing
        • How to use it in the first drafts
        • The changes
        • How it helps the writing
        • What I did to identify

Conclusion–

• The way the course learning outcomes relate
• How it has helped
• Places for improvement
• What I have overcome in these course learning outcomes

Portfolio

First page

• Tabs to all the writings located under the title or side
• The overall reflection introducing myself and my writing
• Thumbnails of the writing that will be selected to be seen the different components that make up the page.

Writing Pages-

• If applicable, the process, research and extra work that relates to the writing process and final product. Ex. Peer review, research
• Have the writing I’ve done and then have the reflection right under it in a separate space, so it does not get confusing
• The tabs to move from writing to writing will still be there
• Drawing and draft of the different model & mechanism created
  • How it aided in the description of it
    • How it worked as a resource to help my thinking process
  • Extra- footnotes of my thoughts on this process of writing overall for the whole semester