Pop-up Flowers

Very fun! You could make all sorts of animals and things with this idea. Can you show us some inside photos?

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

thats awesome!

thats gotta be one of the cleverest things on this site

were you a mechanic or something before you were a wood worker?

-- BRODY. NSW AUSTRALIA -arguments with turnings are rarely productive-

@mmh – No photos of the inside, I didn’t think to take any! Sorry about that! Basically the center wheel has an axle on it with an elliptical piece fitted off-center on the axle. There are two more axles, left and right. The two axles each have a flat piece of wood attached – which support two flowers each. The elliptical piece rotates under the center lip of the flat pieces, pushing them up and down.
Wow, I just read what I wrote and I’m sure I only made it worse! Good luck!

@Broda – thanks for the kind words, and yes I was an autobody mechanic for many years. I could just kind of “see it” in my head and fiddled around with it until it worked.
The nice part was it was only small pieces of scrap wood, so no big deal if I messed up a part.

Thanks, Dean.

-- "Skol, Vikings"

What a cute project.I like it.

-- Dustygirl..Hastings,Ontario.. How much wood can 1 gal chuck if 1 gal can't cut wood?

that’s really fun!
I like the animal idea—I can see a bee or a hummingbird flying up and down with the flowers.
Brilliant

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)