Automata - Swans Nesting

A wooden automaton. Male Mute swan swims protectively around a nesting female to the music of Fur Elise played on a small music box. The wooden circular top spins around the stationary female. This is accomplished by inserting a 1/2" dowel within a 1 1/4" dowel. Made of oak, poplar and basswood. Measures 13 1/2" tall and 8" deep and wide.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• wooden
• automata
• automaton
• mechanical
• sculpture
• kinetic
• craft
• art
• wood-working
• swans

[makesautomata]

Hi Charlene - Glad you and Michael liked it. Thanks for checking out my channel!

[makesautomata]

Thank you! I appreciate your kind words. Man on a bike sounds like a challenging piece to start with so I image you will learn a lot in the process, and this knowledge will make future projects easier. When you finish and turn the crank, you will deservedly feel very proud of yourself. I hope you post it on youtube as I would like to see it. Good luck!

[makesautomata]

Glad to hear that you like Swans Nesting. You can get the music box on amazon.com. I don’t have plans on how to make it. I hope from the video that you can get a pretty good idea about how it works. Good luck and have fun!

[crose374]

So Beautiful and graceful!  Michael & I just finished watching - you are very talented! Can we take lessons? Love you, Charlene

[looknick1]

very nice clean and simple art, well made too, I am just starting my first automata, man on a bike , found it very hard so far - I now appreciate how much work you have done on this piece - keep up the good work

[MemeticMutant]

I am going to make this!  Do you have any further details posted online somewhere?