the settings gear icon on instagram is so dumb. teeth don't look like it would even mesh. why is the bore so huge. barely even recognizable as a gear.
Gear Study 1
Two gears that rotate on arbors over a fixed baseplate. It doesn’t really do anything, but I made every piece of it by hand. I learned a lot, and that was my goal.
360 brass, 6061 aluminum, hardware.
working on making my first gears. turned a wax chuck and faced the blank. the nicest surface finishes I've gotten so so far.
working on assembling @beneater’s new digital clock kit. it keeps time by counting the pulses from the 60 Hz AC power signal. pretty cool!