Fantastic Wind-Powered Whrligigs Video
Automata maker Tom Haney sent the video you see above to me.
Tom writes:
I have something you might want to put up on your site. The man who inspired me to do mechanical pieces, Ben Thal, has posted a video on YouTube. I met him at a whirligig show in Oregon in 1994. He does great pieces with amazing and simple movements. He is a doctor and does whirligigs as a hobby. All his whirligigs are for indoors and are powered by a fan.
See it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnm_16KUF0M
The motions are pretty sophisticated for whirligigs...impressive!
Thanks Tom!
Stumble It!
Tom writes:
I have something you might want to put up on your site. The man who inspired me to do mechanical pieces, Ben Thal, has posted a video on YouTube. I met him at a whirligig show in Oregon in 1994. He does great pieces with amazing and simple movements. He is a doctor and does whirligigs as a hobby. All his whirligigs are for indoors and are powered by a fan.
See it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnm_16KUF0M
The motions are pretty sophisticated for whirligigs...impressive!
Thanks Tom!
Labels: makers, USA, video, whirligigs, wind
Stumble It!
posted by Dug North on Monday, February 04, 2008
2 Comments:
What an artistic doc!
There're many hobbyist woodworkers whose professions are medical doctors or dentists. Would surgeons make good carvers if or when they take up woodworking as a hobby? Paul Spooner uses a surgical knife for his carving work. Among Dr. Thal's pieces, I like the lion tamer most. I've made a couple of lion tamer automata based onRon Fuller's design. After I'm done with my current three projects in the pipeline (including Ron Fuller's sheep shearing man), I'll attempt a hand cranked version of Dr Thal's lion tamer.
Charles
I've recently acquired a scalpel myself. The steel certainly seems to be of the sort that takes a good edge. The handle feels somewhat small in my hand, though. I wonder if it was meant to be held like a pencil for fine incisions.
I suspect that both surgeons and dentists MUST have good hand dexterity. I also suspect that they enjoy using this skill. This makes woodcarving and woodworking with hand tools a logical fit.
Regards,
Dug
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