Sunday, September 2, 2012

Moondial

I'm still working on the fourth mural.  I was hoping to finish yesterday but didn't.  It looks like I will finish tomorrow as all that's left are the five chickens and the small horses and cows.

So it's time to begin looking forward to my next piece which will be a "moondial."  I made this little bear cub a week or so ago and decided to use him as the pointer on a moondial.  He'll be standing on a circle and the outside ring will have the phases of the moon.  The inside will turn with 28 clicks completing a full circle.

It would be fantastic to find a brass gear with 28 cogs that's the right size, but it's hard to imagine that the stars would align quite that well!

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