I’m already late getting an early start for the 2021 holiday season.
Here’s a sneak preview of this year’s Weinachtspyramide (Christmas Pyramid). As a reminder, I don’t sell the patterns – only the physical products.
As you can tell, this is a very rough prototype made from unmasked “goofgrade” ply from the big box store. This year’s innovation is to completely motorize the three-level turntable. It’s geared to turn at approximately 1 rpm, so I sped up the middle of the vide to 4x so that I could check for smooth motion through multiple rotations. Given this is my first time designing and cutting involute gears, I’m pretty stoked with the outcome so far.
Higher praise I cannot imagine – Katie was one of my inspirations, along with other prominent artisans of the Erzgebirge tradition. She will be missed.
Your welcome. I went to the store in rothenburg Ob der tauber several times over the years I lived in Germany. Even lived in the city for 3 months studying at the goethe institut there. Would go in there just to get a cheery Xmas high.