Sunil Hall

More progress on the ship piece. The waves move now! I need to tone the motion down a bit, but it pretty much there. Ive added a spring which keeps the chain under tension. This seems to work much better then the spring links I had previously been building in to the chain. Ill move on to building the boat next. I think I’m going to build a new ship rather then re-use the old one. My original solders are just too messy.

(Its a large-ish video so it might take a little while to load.)

Here are a couple of my current projects:

Sea Ghost

David asked me about this piece a while back so here’s an update. One of my early mechanical pieces was a of a ship sailing above a turbulent sea. I had first set out to see if I could create a believable wave motion. After a few different tries I found something I liked. The design allowed me to add the secondary action of a boat on the surface of the waves. The finished piece was pretty cool but unfortunately this was before I learned to solder properly and the copper tubing I used was not quite rigid enough. After a series of breakdowns and some rough handling during a move the piece collapsed. I don’t think I ever got a photo or video of it intact. Well, I’m currently rebuilding it with brass structural pieces instead of copper and a few design changes. Currently its about thirty percent done.

The waves have been retained from the original but everything else is new.

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