Carpentry Skills

Building the wooden deck for the automata has been a window into the unique skills a carpenter needs to produce a woodworking project. Sanding the edges smooth, grinding the dowels so they are indistinguishable from the surrounding wood was much easier using a belt sander. Doing it by hand was going no where fast...so to speak.

At this point, the deck and crank need to live up to the artistry of the chickens themselves.