What Are Wild Gears?
Wild Gears are the geared drawing toy for the 21st century. Using Gears and Rings and a pen (and paper) you can make beautiful designs.
Do you have a spirograph? Did you have one years ago? Wild Gears is easier to use and has more pieces and options. Each piece feels good, solid, crisp.
Wild Gears are the end result of a Kickstarter campaign that set out to make a newer, better, spirograph like product. Each gear set is made from one solid sheet of acrylic that is laser cut to produce gears and rings.
Do you have a spirograph? Did you have one years ago? Wild Gears is easier to use and has more pieces and options. Each piece feels good, solid, crisp.
Wild Gears are the end result of a Kickstarter campaign that set out to make a newer, better, spirograph like product. Each gear set is made from one solid sheet of acrylic that is laser cut to produce gears and rings.
How Do I Use Them?
All the gears have a variety of pen holes to choose from. Put the gear inside a ring on a piece of paper, put a pen through the hole and start rolling the gear around in the ring. It will make a cool design. Words don't do a very good job of conveying the idea so please accept this supplementary video.
What Makes Wild Gears So Special?
There are many things that set Wild Gears apart from all other gear based drawing products.
- They are made from clear acrylic. This makes it easier to use the gears because you can see through the gears and have a easier idea of how the design is progressing and when it is done.
- They are laser cut. This has two large benefits. Laser cutting provides much higher precision gears which means that they work better, smoother, and more accurately. It is important that the pen comes back to where it started rather than close to where it started to make a flawless design. Less precise gears have enough play that it can be hard to return to the same location at the start and end of a design. Laser cutting all the pieces from a single sheet of acrylic has the added benefit of making a ring for every gear that is cut. This means that a gear set that has 14 gears also has 14 rings which leads to a vast increase in possible designs over other products that usually only provide a few rings to so with the gears.
- Parallel lines. These gear sets have a new innovation that makes it possible to make parallel designs, something that had never been done before by any other product. Parallel lines are achieved by using small doughnut pieces. Follow this link about Doughnut pieces to learn more about the parallel lines.
- Strange Shapes. The gear sets include gears that are not circles. This includes squares, triangles, pentagons, and stranger shapes. These gears work with all the circular gears and make wonderfully unusual designs. Most gear sets include at least two non-circular gears. The exceptions are the Strange Shapes gear set which is 100% non-circular gears and the encyclopedic gear set which does not include any.
Some examples of odd shaped gears including triangles, squares, pentagons, and odder shapes
Where Can I Buy A Gear Set?
You can buy Wild Gears online here
Wild Gears are only available online and are not sold in stores.
Gear Sets ship internationally to any destination in the world. Gear Sets are shipped out of Canada. If you cannot find your shipping destination listed please send us a message.
Wild Gears are only available online and are not sold in stores.
Gear Sets ship internationally to any destination in the world. Gear Sets are shipped out of Canada. If you cannot find your shipping destination listed please send us a message.
What Gear Sets Should I Get First?
- Compact Gear Set and/or Full Page Gear Set
- Strange Shapes, Enormous, or Hoops depending on interest
The Compact Gear Set and The Full Page Gear Set are the two base sets. Each is designed to stand on its own and offer a selection of all of Wild Gears Features. They also complement each other well and share only a few tiny indispensable gears. If you get only one set, get one of these two.
After the base sets I'd next recommend the Strange Shapes, Enormous, or Hoops Gear Sets depending on your personal preference. Hoops pairs well with the Compact Gear Set to provide many larger rings to work with at a small gear set price point. If you want more novel gears go with the Strange Shapes Gear Set for a whole pile of oddly shaped gears to play with. Whereas if you want to make really big designs get the Enormous Gear Set for the bigger gears. Note that you will need really big paper to go with the Enormous Gear Set.
Details about all the gear sets can be found here.
If you are unsure about what you might like most I am always happy to provide more discussion, details, and recommendations.
What Else Can I Do With a Gear Set?
There are so many cool ways to use the gears. Here is a link to a list of 8 different ways to use Wild Gears