Tumbling heart (pleased to meet you).. This little guy’s heart is doing flips while his hat levitates.. Love does that to him…Finished it today ! Pleased as can be… thought I felt my hat glide about for a while !

Ive nearly completed the Kinetic Sculpture “Taken for a ride” (all that glitters is not gold).. It now has a nice red handle on the crank and am just short of some final decisions on finish and making a sound-track to go with the video clip(that wont contravene anyone’s copyright)…
But today I have been working on a new one .. something simple because I got into a lot of ‘Kognecience Kaniption’ type trouble with “Taken for a Ride” .. anyhow, here is a picture of work in progress on the new one .. Working title, “Tumbling Heart”.

“Tumbling Heart” work in progress … welded steel

These other two pictures are the “Trial and Error” bits…

So I’m working on a new Kinetic thing.. Needed another ‘Jig’ … completed the “Ganson Alignment Jig” ..the one that I sacrificed a perfectly good Stanley hand drill for…and Julian De Saxe..(who, like that Kung-fu Panda bloke.. is Awesomely Legendary), found a replacement one for me… Thanks Julian!  I don’t know yet, just exactly what this one is saying but it is quietly doing my head in…. so it is doing something ..

Mo for a COGnicenti

Kinetic thing.. Work in progress

Jig for bending 1.6mm ribbon steel gear cogs

Arthur Ganson type alignment jig

‘Kinetic thing’ frame templates and inner workings

Kinetic thing inner workings..

Cogs !

Some mechanism with the wire ‘worm-gear’ on the right

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