How To Make Organically-Shaped Gears

A tutorial by Clayton Boyer showing how to make organically-shaped wooden gears. More wooden gears and clock plans at www.lisaboyer.com.

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• Clayton Boyer
• woodworking
• gears
• clocks

[iwonttell19888]

Organic? So trendy. ;)

[brainwagon]

It's pretty obvious that in most cases, the gear ratio has to be an integer (2:1 in this example). Very neat.

[robertlewisvazquez]

is there a ratio of teeth between each gear?

[kokurikof]

なるほど！　(ﾟ〇ﾟ;)　( ﾟ-ﾟ) ( ﾟﾛﾟ) (( ﾛﾟ)ﾟ (((　ﾛ)~ﾟ ﾟ 。　。

Is this ”Every Jack has his Jill." ???

[mikesmullin]

this could be done with cad or photoshop also by inverting the selection. interesting approach

[MrBlack69Ops]

Orgasmic??

[61066clocks]

Very Creative &Educational Clayton!! I cannot believe some of the inconsiderate filthy comments some of these viewers has put on the comment section of this video,thanks for sharing,Tim

[clbphllps]

@praky23k Seems to me that if the gear ratio wasn't an even integer, then there would be a phase shift on a gear relative to the other. Since these are asymmetrical gears, they only align one way so there cannot be a phase shift.

[praky23k]

wow! human creativity knows no bounds!. Btw I don't see any correlation with the gear ratio having to be an integer. . . as long as the number is rational i.e. we can have a definite number of teeth on each gear, it should work. But hats off to you sir for redefining the way in which this human being shall look at gears :)

[Offshoreorganbuilder]

Amazing, and entertaining. (Not sure why anyone would want to do this, mind you, except that it's possible.  Thanks.

[mrtimemaker]

I think it would have to necessarily true that the ratios are an integer number. Wonderful scheme! Have you thought of a clock made useing organic gears. You have opened up an entirely fascinating area of development for me. Thank you very much