Almost as relaxing as watching the thin blue from my stick burner!

[Frozen Smoke]

This thing is mesmerizing! Different sands and minerals of different colors and weight. Encased in glass with a water solution, has air in it which you can adjust which determines how slow or fast the sand will gravitate to the bottom creating mountains or dunes. If you look closely you can see the line of air bubbles just underneath the upper layer of sand. The sand tries to fall the air bubbles try to rise. A war of gravity basically. I have mine adjusted to where it can take up to 2 hours to complete a picture. It will never create the same picture twice. Pretty cool display piece might make a good gift idea for someone out there. When it's done you just turn it over again. That's a window reflection in the upper left corner.

[Thom Emery]

video please

[Frozen Smoke]

video please

I've got one on my phone and I tried to email it to myself so it would then be on my computer so I could upload it to here. The file was too big to email though.

[fzxdoc]

And where did you purchase it? I had a much less expensive one similar to that back in the day, but it only had one opening for the sand and was made of plastic.

This one's cool.

Kathryn

[Frozen Smoke]

Amazon of course. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[HawkerXP]

Cool.

[RonB]

I've seen similar things, and you are right. I could watch for hours, (as long as the beer didn't run out).

[fzxdoc]

I found a great collection of them here: https://www.pitkinstearns.com/produc...esktop-series/

Here's a link to some of their videos: https://www.pitkinstearns.com/knowledge-center/


I just ordered three of them for Xmas gifts. The prices range from in the thousands of dollars to $30.

Thanks, Frozen Smoke for helping me to whittle down my Xmas gift list.

Kathryn

How to Adjust Sand Picture:

[Troutman]

"Like the sands of time through an hourglass, so are the days of our lives..."

[Frozen Smoke]

I found that web site too fzxdoc but I used my amazon points to buy mine. I too think they would make great gifts. I'm going to send one to my aunt in the nursing home. I'm trying desperately to resist the urge to buy one for hanging on the wall. The wife is encouraging me even to get one but I think I will try to hold off and see how long the fascination lasts with this one.

I spent about a half hour initially getting mine to where I liked the air adjustment. I think the slower the sand falls the more detailed the picture gets. If it goes too fast you don't get any mountains you get dunes but either looks fantastic. It's kind of a fine line between a very slow sand fall and the air stopping the sand entirely.

Also mine arrived frozen as it's cold here now. I was a bit worried about it but I let it thaw overnight before attempting to handle it too much. It works just fine.

[Donw]

Thanks for posting, and for all the follow-ups. I now know what to give some people for Christmas.

[Mudbeaver]

That is awesome.