| Project by chucko | posted 827 days ago | 6441 views | 37 times favorited | 13 comments |  |
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I found a wooden Iris on the internet; it had levers not gears to make it rotate. I always wanted to make wooden gears, I found a gear making program on the Net to make the gear patterns. The name of the program is called Gear Maker, it works very well. The acorn is made of wood and painted gold.This Iris was cut on a CNC router. The design was created on Aspire CAD software.
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David
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#1 posted 827 days ago
What is the address for the Gear Maker SW you used? Very nicely done. It would make a great window for a “Hobbit” house I think, or a really large camera ! LOL
I’m sure you have already seen Matthias Wandel's site for making gears:
Now you have my interest up: I just found this video of one operating.
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#2 posted 827 days ago
That is one of the coolest things ever!
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Dennisgrosen
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#3 posted 827 days ago
great work even though its cnc work its still great
thank´s for sharing and welcome to L J enjoy and have fun
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Dennis
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#4 posted 827 days ago
It is beautiful; I like it. What did you use to cut those gears, scroll saw or CNC laser? You really did a fantastic job!
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#5 posted 827 days ago
You’ve seen Alien right? There are doors/dampers in the ductwork on the space ship they are on are just like that. Right before the alien kills everybody on the ship.
Very cool.
Now I have to watch that movie this weekend.
bigike
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#6 posted 827 days ago
nice
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Dave
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#7 posted 827 days ago
Now i wana see the camera that goes in! ;)
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#8 posted 827 days ago
Neat!! Now, if you had some glass plate negatives :-)) Welcome to LJ!!
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chucko
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#9 posted 827 days ago
I used a .125 end mill to cut the gears.
Gear Making Software http://www.emachineshop.com/machine-shop/Free-Gear-Design-Software/page506.html
http://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/template.html
Cozmo35
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#10 posted 827 days ago
This is a REALLY cool project!
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#11 posted 826 days ago
Very cool. Almost steampunk – could be the port window on the Nautilus.
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#12 posted 826 days ago
Very cool! To me, it looks like you have made an extremely cool picture frame. Just need to find the right picture to put in it…
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#13 posted 825 days ago
Heh, seems I’m not the only one to have plans for building wooden irises. Yours is really neat, steampunk as mcjibbin said.
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