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No matter how wide you open this device the ratio of the three points remains constant. If the distance between the two lower points is ascribed a value of one,then the distance between the second and third ,(here the top)point is 1.618 ,a significant number in defining the Golden Ration or Phi ( for Phidias)(and not to be confused with pi).This device in various forms was utilized by most of the architects,designers ,artists and craftsmen of the Renaissance.
It is an instrument that helps the user create pleasing proportions in any design.
I manufacture this thing (if you can call it that) in two iterations. This is the more expensive ornamented version (hand etched steel) . And I also offer an unornamented version in stainless steel.
This piece is available for purchase.
Please note me for pricing.
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I think this is wonderful....
What material have you used here.?
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..and intriguing ... Trying to work out how to make one myself...
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Try finding a copy of "50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship" by Salvador Dali.
Page 179.
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thanks very much...I am sure the book will be in the library system somewhere..
Thanks again.
E.
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from me...
the ornamented version in the photo is $400
but I also sell an UN-ORNAMENTED version made in stainless for $100
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So, it keeps the ratio of PHI, between the three sections? And, I would want a small one that measure under three inches for jewelry design. Something that would be comfortable on the workbench. Is that do-able?
What a great idea. Did you invent these?
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I won't be able to do the little one any time soon...
I did not invent this.Many major architects and designers during the Renaissance had this device.
I saw a sketch of one from a Renaissance artist in a small French Museum on the Brittany Coast in 1969 and had no idea what I was looking at. Then in about 1990 I found the amazing little volume by Salvador Dali called "50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship".There is a cartoon in there of the device drawn by him. At last I realized what I had seen 20 years previously. I was able to manufacture the thing by using conventional computer software. It is laser-cut.
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~Aries-War86 mentioned your calipers and I had to check 'em out... I'm definitely going to be getting me a set of these one day
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Wonderful,
then perhaps you'll be more inclined to a trade then ...
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Aye, more inclined indeed.
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There is a certain magic in using beautiful tools, and I'm sure this one possesses it. I couldn't imagine being willing to part with it at all.
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You're right.
This one's a keeper.
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No,
I'll have this tool my whole life.
But I do sell another unornamented version in stainless steel...
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Not for that one exactly but for one in general.
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Not at the present time but I will keep it in mind...
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I love the etched design in it. There's just something about having pretty tools!
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Yes,
It adds to your ability to make worthy art.
It's sort of a sympathetic magic thing.
The tools are "invested" with energy in the effort to make them usable artworks on their own.
This investiture in turn is transferred to the objects made with the tools...
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I was hoping you'd see this Eric...
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It's a pantograph - but how does it inscribe the lines? Does it scratch the lines or hold pencils or just act as calipers? The 'scratch engraving' done at cheap jewelry outlets use this same system with one point fixed, the second tracing the letter channel & the third scratching the letters on the piece.
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It is SIMILAR in appearance,
however this device is used solely for measuring distance so there is no marking or inscribing.
Also this is used upright, whereas I believe (at least some) of the pantograph's are used flat.
I probably should have photographed it upright or being used measuring the distances in a pentagram or some such other Sacred Geometry Shape.
This is basically a drafting device.
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Needless to say, I love it.
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hey, thats cool!
i remember, the other day, my dad changed the windshield wipers on his car, so i was just looking at the discarded one, toying around with it, and i realized that the design was similar to that of a binary tree!
the part where it connected to the rod, was at the top in the middle, then it spread out, branching off into two at each end, then again on the two outermost ends.
i wondered why the elaborate design, then i realized that it kept equal pressure throughout the length of the squeegee, even though its only connected at one point in the middle.
hehe. excuse my rambling, i just found it interesting, and this piece reminded me of it.
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um, no, its an isuzu, but the wipers werent the same brand i dont think...
why do you ask???
heres an example: [link]
do you see it?
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The Germans are famous for their engineering, and attention to detail.
but in recent years so are the Japanese.
My Toyota pick up has 300,ooo miles on it and is still running.
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oh okay.
i always wanted a volkswagen. theyre not exactly sportscars, but i hear theyre durable.
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My first car,
the squareback,
nothing like it in snow(engine in the rear).
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