Imagine doing a Tom Kundig-style 'gizmo' for an operable building component (like the crank to open the window from the Chicken Point Cabin - see below), but instead of just having an exposed mechanism, add to that using the oddly shaped and improbable gears from "Quilty1987" from
BoingBoing. That could be quite something.
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