Buying Wild Gears
Do you love Spirograph but are ready for something more? Or do you love someone who is, maybe someone you like to surprise with presents?
Have you seen my Wild Gears page, or any of my Wild Gears videos, or the Wild Gears channel on YouTube?
Then maybe you’re ready for Wild Gears. (Shop Wild Gears at this link.)
Something different
Wild Gears Compact Gear Set
Wild Gears are more expensive than Spirograph because they are not mass produced. They’re designed by Aaron Bleackley who laser cuts them on demand out of acrylic sheets.
Wild Gears give you lots more options. Each gear also has a ring with the same number of teeth. This gives you way more combinations, sizes and versatility.
Laser cutting is very precise, which makes for crisp smoothness to the gear teeth. The holes align precisely with the teeth, and the pieces stay flat – no warping as with the newer Spirograph pieces.
Wheel 35 in ring 48 of wheel 108 inside ring 135, using parallel lines
Wild Gears uniquely allow you to draw patterns with parallel lines. There are unusual shapes and gears with off-center holes that allow crazy wheel-within-a-wheel designs.
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Since 2013, Aaron Bleackley has taken the product through several design cycles and Kickstarter campaigns. There are large sets – the Enormous Gear Set has gears and rings as big as 12 inches – and smaller sets – like the Compact Gear Set (see my Unboxing video) which you can absolutely use with each other.
Aaron will ship Wild Gears just about anywhere.
Check out the whole Wild Gears section on this site for lots more videos and images.
These are amazing. Wish you produced an affordable kit for kids. I was telling a child about Spirograph and looked it up to show him. We came across wild gears. He was blown away! Wish we never found it because we could nev r afford this, amazing product for those with money!
I hear you, but as it is not a mass-produced product, but rather produced on demand, economies of scale are not available to lower the cost. Do take a look at the Compact Gear Set, however, which at $40 is only about twice the price of a Spirograph (depending where you buy it). This link is for version 2.0, but version 3.0 should be out before Christmas. It will have some improvements, such as hole numbering, tick marks and prime number factors for those who want to predict the number of points a ring/gear combination will give.