Busy Summer for Aaron Ristau Studio

So Busy!…  Parenting during the summer schedule, A new commission project, and mouse orders! The commission is for an Orrery/ Chandelier/ Mobile and installs in August… more soon. Here are a few images from the workbench… The latest mouse is for sale at the moment….
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Three New Videos Released

Recently one of my favorite sculptures had an unfortunate encounter with a gravity field and had to come back to it’s birthplace, my studio, for repairs. This gave me the opportunity to get some video of this incredible sculpture Frontier Cartography Droid I was also able to get video of […]
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Large Wind Up Motor Restoration

I think this motor is from a very old barbershop sign. I welcome advice. It will run for about 20 minutes on a full winding. Very low torque. I dipped and flushed the coil spring assembly in carburetor cleaner for a day instead of breaking that part all the way […]
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