Comments | booniesbill: Wood, meet metal.

booniesbill

Wood, meet metal.

Mar 07, 2010 18:03

Barring whatever finishing ends up happening to it, the first attempt ever at a gear is complete:

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Comments 6

hascouf March 7 2010, 23:15:34 UTC

Well - I can take a mold of your model and lost wax cast it.

booniesbill March 7 2010, 23:37:29 UTC

Yah, it's just a time thing.. making it for someone for this coming weekend. I'm pondering making some real gears for a Birka project (go go mechanical medieval toys!), and those we'll definitely need to get together to experiment with.

hascouf March 7 2010, 23:43:02 UTC

I figured it was a time thing.

I'm getting ready to vulcanize a model right now, and hopefully shoot waxes tomorrow, so I'm having an immediate need to cast.

keshwyn March 8 2010, 11:52:21 UTC

Eeeeeeee. :) Now I have to figure out how to get it from you! That is just made of cool....

booniesbill March 8 2010, 14:28:43 UTC

I'll be in the office (Rt 495/2) Tu and Thu, and can run out closer to the Boston side of the world in one of the AMs.

Or drop me a note with your snail mail address (have it somewhere, just not handy), as there's still enough time to priority mail it..

keshwyn March 9 2010, 02:21:02 UTC

Note dropped to email account attached to this LJ. I currently lack any free time whatsoever, which is disgusting but predictable. :/