Geometric Lathes!
October 24, 2014 11:44 AM Subscribe
This is what I come to Metafilter for. Thanks, this rules!!
posted by garethspor at 1:06 PM on October 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by garethspor at 1:06 PM on October 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
Gorgeous stuff. That binder of available patterns is more drool-worthy to me than all the fun gears and machinery through the rest of the video. The reducing lathe was surprising, though. I'd never thought about how that was done before now, except I knew the original designs were huge. I'm happy to know that there are multiple people who spend time preserving all these fantastic devices.
posted by Mizu at 1:07 PM on October 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Mizu at 1:07 PM on October 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
Guillochés! Make your own guilloché! Guilloché Math!
posted by zamboni at 1:13 PM on October 24, 2014 [6 favorites]
posted by zamboni at 1:13 PM on October 24, 2014 [6 favorites]
Eponysterical.
posted by ardgedee at 1:23 PM on October 24, 2014 [5 favorites]
posted by ardgedee at 1:23 PM on October 24, 2014 [5 favorites]
Nothing rudimentary about those lathes!
posted by Zonker at 1:55 PM on October 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Zonker at 1:55 PM on October 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
Some beautiful guiloches on the Excentro website. Mac only, sadly.
posted by benito.strauss at 3:04 PM on October 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by benito.strauss at 3:04 PM on October 24, 2014 [1 favorite]
This is so amazing, thank you both, Small Dollar and zamboni.
posted by Brian Puccio at 4:17 PM on October 24, 2014
posted by Brian Puccio at 4:17 PM on October 24, 2014
Guilloche made with an Erector Set (Meccano)
A fountain pen barrel being cut by a vertical guilloche machine. Your great-grandfather might've had a fountain pen cut by a machine like this: Back around the turn of the previous century even the cheaper hard rubber pens often had all-over engravings like this.
posted by ardgedee at 4:46 PM on October 24, 2014
A fountain pen barrel being cut by a vertical guilloche machine. Your great-grandfather might've had a fountain pen cut by a machine like this: Back around the turn of the previous century even the cheaper hard rubber pens often had all-over engravings like this.
posted by ardgedee at 4:46 PM on October 24, 2014
Nothing rudimentary about those lathes!
And yet, so well-formed.
posted by tigrrrlily at 11:26 PM on October 24, 2014
And yet, so well-formed.
posted by tigrrrlily at 11:26 PM on October 24, 2014
I don't have anything to say about the content that hasn't already been gushed over extensively in the comments already, so I just have to ask. Is he intentionally rocking a mowhawk, or is that just how the hair fell out over time?
posted by radwolf76 at 9:09 AM on October 25, 2014
posted by radwolf76 at 9:09 AM on October 25, 2014
This is very cool. Coincidentally, my sister is a (retired) banknote scientist, most recently with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She was the co-leader of the "big head" redesign of bills back in the mid to late '90s.
I sent the SLYT to her so she can nerd out on it. Unfortunately, she still won't disclose to me all the anticounterfeit measures on the new bills.
posted by Mental Wimp at 2:03 PM on October 27, 2014
I sent the SLYT to her so she can nerd out on it. Unfortunately, she still won't disclose to me all the anticounterfeit measures on the new bills.
posted by Mental Wimp at 2:03 PM on October 27, 2014
"Banknote Scientist"!? Your sister has (had) a very cool job title.
posted by benito.strauss at 4:15 PM on October 27, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by benito.strauss at 4:15 PM on October 27, 2014 [1 favorite]
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