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Gears of all shapes: square, oval, pentagonal, organic & more

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Wooden clock designer Clayton Boyer demonstrates a variety of square, oval, pentagonal, organic and other unbelievably-shaped gears. These Gears Really Work? Yes, yes they do.

Related watching: How to make organically-shaped wooden gears.

Even more related watching: How the differential gear works‘The Writer’ Automaton, and this Baltic Birch plywood marble machine.

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