Wooden clock designer Clayton Boyer demonstrates a variety of square, oval, pentagonal, organic and other almost unbelievable gear shapes. These Gears Really Work? Yes. Yes, they do.
Find plans for these “weird” gear shapes at LisaBoyer.com. They come in both pdf and dxf file formats, along with dozens of Clayton Boyer’s woodworking plans.
Related gear shapes DIY demonstration: How to make organically-shaped wooden gears.
Even more related watching:
• Nautilus-inspired logarithmic spiral gears
• How the differential gear works
• How do bicycle gears work?
• Making wire gears + the kinetic sculptures of Arthur Ganson
• ‘The Writer’ Automaton
• A Baltic Birch plywood marble machine
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