Shining Sun

When I started making kaleidoscopes, I considered myself a box maker (I had never used a lathe in my life). As a result, my first scopes were based on boxes. For this scope I decided to return to an original design and beef it up. When I was designing this kaleidoscope, I had 3 goals:

Develop a kaleidoscope that had a beautiful image that built on what I knew, but exceeded what I had done previously.
Make a kaleidoscope with a simpler turning end than what I made on a lathe.
Make a kaleidoscope with an interchangeable object chamber.

As a result, you will see a simple box with an image of 16 to 18 points, depending on the mirror system (2 or 3 mirror).

One of the features of this kaleidoscope is that the object chambers are interchangeable. Magnets are used to attach the object chamber to the scope body, and still allow you to exchange the object chambers. To remove and exchange the object chamber:

Twist the wooden object chamber holder (OCH) off of the scope body
Find the screw on the object chamber
Align the screw with the divot located next to one of the tabs on the object chamber holder (it’s hiding in plain sight),
Push the original object chamber through the hole in the holder, keeping the screw aligned with the divot.
Push the new object chamber through the hole, keeping the screw aligned with the divot.
Snap the object chamber holder back onto the scope body.

Each scope comes with a product card reminding you how to exchange object chambers.

Scopes are available with 2 mirror (mandala) or 3 mirror full field images.

A display stand is also available separately which can hold 4 additional object chambers.

Sunrise

This chamber features primarily glass objects, but also includes a few metallic objects. The colors are bright and varied.

Sunset

I like texture in my object chambers. This object chamber features all metallic objects. As a result the images are very textured and the colors are very deep and saturated.

The object chamber contents are shown in the scope image above.