Endless Sketchbook

Step 4 Is this going to work?

After creating some Sketch Watch versions of this design, I go about seeing how the looping version of this will actually work. Based on my drawings of paper loops, I decide to do a small testing version so I can figure out how much friction this paper is going to have.
Nailing into a piece of wood, I can recreate the amount of loops the paper would have to go through. After taking a small strip of paper and looping it through my nail set up I soon realize how much friction this thing is going to have.
With only two turns of the paper around the nails, I'm getting way too much resistance and realize that I'm going to have to rethink how this prototype is going to be done. It's a good thing I didn't spend the time building out a larger version only to realize that I was going to have some big problems.