Tabletop - Rolling ball Sculpture - #63 Hand marble machine

This non-motorized tabletop kinetic art rolling ball sculpture is approx. 25" tall and about 19" wide. 1 3/8" glass marbles. 2 separate tracks. Marbles are released by pushing on the T-handle. They roll directly into a track switch which sends the marbles, alternately, left or right. All stainless steel, TIG welded. A graduation gift. Order one for someone special, $1050.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• rolling
• ball
• sculpture
• kinetic
• art
• mechanical
• machine
• marbles
• roller
• coaster
• fracture
• run

[paulie1982]

Cool, what materials do you use for building these things? I really wanna make one.

Why don't you make a mechanism that brings the balls back up to the top? The coolest thing ever would be if you bought a low temp stirling engine and made it run off the heat of your television and let it bring them back up

[motleymdg]

I use stainless steel that is TIG welded. I do make motorized sculptures, just none this small.

[DjGizzo]

verry good

[motleymdg]

Thank you!

[mamshmam]

Those are so cool! How long do all these take to make they look so complex

[motleymdg]

I built this sculpture in about 3 days.

[sbhusbhtk]

it's for baking cakes

[captainTubes]

mmm *tasty cakes*

[sgentlemanjack112]

a very simple contraption turns this into a fully automated machine

[ruub1234]

It would be cool if there was a rolercooster like that

[huhabah]

Dude Ur a role model I wanna be like u someday :3

[Soboredwtf]

quick, and i can't really see what's happening...

[mdeb85]

@motleymdg

i'm looking to start trying make these, but i don't know how to weld, nor could afford the equipment for tig welding. Do you think it would be possible to solder one of these sculptures together?

[randslider123]

i never would have the patience to make one of these. do you ever feel like leaving them halfway through building them?

[aaronz101]

That is truly an amazing profession you've got, it's so inspiring to see that people can create such complex and visually attractive things simply by manipulating metal and marbles.

5/5

[lover40x]

what is it for?

anyway it's really cool ;)