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[FrankPotts]

I have a couple of ideas for a puzzle, but I need some wooden gears - anyone out there an expert at making them?

I remember the Stickman box that had some - so there must be at least one expert 

[Eric Fuller]

How thick do they need to be?  My laser is pretty good at stuff like that ;-)

[Robert Yarger]

A laser could probably make them a bit more accurate and faster than I do by hand, but be sure to take into account that any wooden gears need to consist of 2 wood layers glued together in perpendicular wood grain directions.  If you don't then the teeth that stick out perpendicular to the wood grain are far too fragile to do any work.  I like to use two different types of wood when I do this to make the gears both decorative as well as stronger structurally.

I must agree that the most efficient way would be to go Eric's route, but feel free to contact me if for some reason you just want to craft them by hand.  Also, there is another guy online who makes them by hand using a different method than I, and I can find a link to his website if desired.