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Wooden Gear Window Blinds (video)

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These are wood blinds that utilize my helical gears that are made with the gear making technique I developed. The blind slats and the frame are walnut, the ...

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blog.makezine.com - 2/18/2009

Wooden gear window blinds

— blog.makezine.com — MAKE subscriber Dug North sent us a link to Steve Garrision's amazing wooden gear window blinds made... from walnut slats and frame, pecan handles, and cherry gears and pulleys. Window Blinds Read more | Permalink | Comments |  ... (more) Wooden gear window blinds

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Wooden geared window-blinds
Boing Boing — Spirals By Steven's wooden window blinds feature a hypnotically fawsome set of wooden helical gears, exposed for extra mesmerizing stupendosity: "The raise/lower mechanism uses a system of pulleys and gears to wind up or let out two lines that are attached to the bottom bar of the blinds. This line is threaded through holes drilled along the centerline of each slat, goes through pulleys to be wound up onto a spool attached concentrically to the main gear. The gears are not really necessary for the blinds to work properly, but they really add to the coolness factor! The pinion gear could simply be replaced ...

Wooden gear window blinds
MAKE Magazine — MAKE subscriber Dug North sent us a link to Steve Garrision's amazing wooden gear window blinds made from walnut slats and frame, pecan handles, and cherry gears and pulleys. Window Blinds Read more | Permalink | Comments ...

Videos: DIY Wooden Gear Window Blinds
The UberReview — Here is an example of what you can do with some clever carpentry and a lot of ingenuity. Steve Garrison’s Wooden Window Blinds combine walnut slats and frame, pecan handles, and cherry gears and pulleys and feature a stop mechanism that will hold the blinds at any position he likes. [Steve Garrison via Make] Related posts Videos: Ponginator, a Giant Robot that Fires Ping Pong Balls at 170 mph (0) Videos: NES Keyless Entry System, DIY Gaming Room Security (0) Videos: DIY Swiss Army Knife Style Keyring (0) ...