Magnetic sculptures

Even the most complicated geometric figures can be accomplished with magnets

Author: Matthias, Zürich, Switzerland

Online since: 07/05/2008, Number of visits: 356758

With rod magnets snd steel balls, all kinds of sculptures can be built. Below is a small collection of a few magnetic sculptures. Let yourself be inspired!

Table of Contents

Construction Addiction

How does that work with addictions...? It all starts small and harmless. And it's fun! And it gets more and more fun! And then, before you know it, you can no longer live without it ... it gets the upper-hand!

Matthias Hofer and his friends started small. After all, you can create interesting patterns with just S-05-25-N, S-05-14-N, S-05-08-N and Steel balls Ø 12,7 mm alone!

And not just in 2D but also in 3D.

Perhaps not always perfectly symmetrical.

But for the observant definitely recognizable as numbers: 2008!

Free forms are also an interesting challenge.

Build a football with magnets

Addition from customer Josef Marhl, Vienna (Austria):

Since your delivery service is fast as lightning, I managed to assemble a magnetic football just in time for the European Football Championship.

The football was built with:

The assembly of the football formation was a little difficult. That's why I initially had to support the pentagons with additional five radial rods and a sphere in the middle. When there was only a little hole on top of the entire ball, I could dismantle the support.

Interestingly, it didn't really turn out to be round, although enough hexagons and pentagons were available: 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons. For those who want to check out the geometry of a football in more detail: A wonderfully designed website (in German though) on this topic can be found here.

Here is one of my favourite constructions! The rotating parts on the left and right are just far enough apart that they can rotate in the opposite direction without affecting each other.

Note from the supermagnete team:
These magnets are not suitable for children! Please review our safety tips.

Articles used

S-05-25-N

Rod magnet Ø 5 mm, height 25 mm, holds approx. 1,1 kg, neodymium, N45, nickel-plated

	5 pcs.	1,16 EUR ea.*
from	15 pcs.	1,02 EUR ea.*
from	40 pcs.	0,92 EUR ea.*
from	80 pcs.	0,85 EUR ea.*
Ask for a rebate from 600 pcs.

Available: 3 565 pcs.

S-05-14-N

Rod magnet Ø 5 mm, height 13,96 mm, holds approx. 1,1 kg, neodymium, N45, nickel-plated

	5 pcs.	0,83 EUR ea.*
from	15 pcs.	0,72 EUR ea.*
from	40 pcs.	0,64 EUR ea.*
from	80 pcs.	0,58 EUR ea.*
Ask for a rebate from 650 pcs.

Available: 3 600 pcs.

S-05-08-N

Rod magnet Ø 5 mm, height 8,47 mm, holds approx. 1,1 kg, neodymium, N45, nickel-plated

	10 pcs.	0,53 EUR ea.*
from	40 pcs.	0,44 EUR ea.*
from	80 pcs.	0,40 EUR ea.*
from	160 pcs.	0,37 EUR ea.*
Ask for a rebate from 850 pcs.

Available: 357 480 pcs.

Steel balls Ø 12,7 mm

not magnets!, ferromagnetic, nickel-plated
To combine with neodymium magnets

	10 pcs.	0,43 EUR ea.*
from	40 pcs.	0,38 EUR ea.*
from	80 pcs.	0,36 EUR ea.*
from	160 pcs.	0,34 EUR ea.*
Ask for a rebate from 5 000 pcs.

Available: 23 590 pcs.

Steel balls Ø 8 mm

not magnets!, ferromagnetic, nickel-plated
To combine with neodymium magnets

	10 pcs.	0,35 EUR ea.*
from	40 pcs.	0,29 EUR ea.*
from	80 pcs.	0,27 EUR ea.*
from	160 pcs.	0,25 EUR ea.*
Ask for a rebate from 1 500 pcs.

Available: 6 890 pcs.

Steel balls Ø 10 mm

not magnets!, ferromagnetic, nickel-plated
To combine with neodymium magnets

	10 pcs.	0,34 EUR ea.*
from	40 pcs.	0,29 EUR ea.*
from	80 pcs.	0,27 EUR ea.*
from	160 pcs.	0,25 EUR ea.*
Ask for a rebate from 2 500 pcs.

Receive e-mail when item available again

Steel balls Ø 20 mm

not magnets!, ferromagnetic, nickel-plated
To combine with neodymium magnets

	10 pcs.	1,14 EUR ea.*
from	40 pcs.	0,96 EUR ea.*
from	80 pcs.	0,88 EUR ea.*
from	160 pcs.	0,82 EUR ea.*
Ask for a rebate from 550 pcs.

Available: 8 220 pcs.

S-04-25-N

Rod magnet Ø 4 mm, height 25 mm, holds approx. 670 g, neodymium, N42, nickel-plated

	5 pcs.	0,96 EUR ea.*
from	15 pcs.	0,84 EUR ea.*
from	40 pcs.	0,75 EUR ea.*
from	80 pcs.	0,69 EUR ea.*
Ask for a rebate from 600 pcs.

Available: 8 140 pcs.

W-05-G

Cube magnet 5 mm, holds approx. 1,1 kg, neodymium, N42, gold-plated

	10 pcs.	0,53 EUR ea.*
from	40 pcs.	0,43 EUR ea.*
from	80 pcs.	0,40 EUR ea.*
from	160 pcs.	0,36 EUR ea.*
Ask for a rebate from 850 pcs.

Available: 25 800 pcs.

One person likes this customer project -Projects are bookmarked in your customer account

This might also interest you

Low-voltage Lighting System

Vase without support

Save the date magnets

Picture frames made of magnetic tape

keywords

Impressive ( 54 )
Decorative ( 146 )
Entertaining ( 74 )

The entire content of this site is protected by copyright.
Copying the content or using it elsewhere is not permitted without explicit approval.