Wood, meet metal.
Barring whatever finishing ends up happening to it, the first attempt ever at a gear is complete:
Left is the basswood model, right is the pewter sand casting, after some minor cleanup. There's plenty of material left to sand out the minor surface voids (it's 1/8" thick) from loose sand during casting, but I'm lazy and it's dinner time..
For the record, 64 teeth on a 2" diameter gear is a lot. I should probably have started with something more like 16 or 32, but the reference pic had 60+, so I went nuts. I should also lost-wax cast things like this, for accuracy, but not quite all set up for that yet...
Left is the basswood model, right is the pewter sand casting, after some minor cleanup. There's plenty of material left to sand out the minor surface voids (it's 1/8" thick) from loose sand during casting, but I'm lazy and it's dinner time..
For the record, 64 teeth on a 2" diameter gear is a lot. I should probably have started with something more like 16 or 32, but the reference pic had 60+, so I went nuts. I should also lost-wax cast things like this, for accuracy, but not quite all set up for that yet...