Strange Attraction

Recently Aaron wrote in the Wild Gears blog about a new technique pioneered by u/HomegrownTomato from the Spirograph subreddit that Aaron called "Center Secured". I won't go into the technique in this post because it's quite complicated and just a contributing factor to what I'm writing about here. Plus, Aaron covered it rather thoroughly in his blog.

Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty...

Well, greenish-blue, actually. This may seem a somewhat odd post, but I want to talk briefly about putty. Poster putty. The stuff many of us use to hold our rings to the page while we spin gears around them.