Harry & Eva Automaton Dancers 2012

Meet Harry and Eva - dance contestants #266 demonstrating a simple move - 2 steps forward and 2 steps back. This happy couple are unconcerned about winning the contest. They'll take any excuse to dance. They've been memorialised in oak, walnut, maple, and catalpa woods. The idea to create automata was inspired by the movie, "Hugo", which is based on a real automata using highly precise clockwork mechanisms. My background is a wood carver and carpenter - clockwork automata is out of my area of expertise, but I've always been a huge fan of whirligigs which use more elementary forms of gear and linkage. So I created Harry & Eva along these lines. They are the first in a series of dancing couples. The accompanying video shows them in action along with a few other ideosyncratic tidbits from TagYerit.

"Nutsy, Rusty & Crusty"   Click image for more pics

Rusty, the tall guy in the center is made from pieces of unknown origins. His head is made from an old vise handle, but his body came from who knows what, and his arms look to possibly been a draw (spoke) shave, which was originally made from a file. He has a rubber shoulder collar and the neck is from galvanized pipe. To his right (your left) is Nutsy, a reformed cable grounding clamp, now adorned with a castle nut (castellated) crown. And to his left (your right) is crusty, another cable ground clamp with a wing nut head. These 2 little guys are standing in t-nut boots.
12" wide, 4 1/2" deep, 13 1/8" tall
Signed on the bottom, TAGYERIT 2012

Walnut Panel Music Stand $2499.00 (plus shipping) - Click image for more pics

Rich Newman built and carved this music stand in 1981. Cleaned and re-rubbed with tung oil Dec. 2012 (when these pictures were taken). It was displayed at The Pioneer Valley Woodworker's Guild show at the Don Muller Gallery 1981.

Condition: Has a few minor dings and occasional manufacturing imperfections

Closed Dimensions (as panel):
• Height: 66 1/2"
• Width: 22 1/4" (20 5/8" Plus the width of the adjusting knobs)
• Depth 2 1/2 (1 3/4 frame + 3/4 lip)
• music shelf lip 1" deep

Open Dimensions - in easel position:
• Height: 62 1/4"
• Depth: 35 1/4"
• Height from lip of the bottom of the page holder to floor: approx. 43" to 50"
• - adjusts in 5 positions by loosening square wood bolts on top sides

Materials: antique reclaimed walnut for the frame and body. Peruvian walnut was used for the carving.
Design: The musician and the dancers. The barefoot elven horn player is carved on Peruvian walnut. He's playing what looks to be a twisted version of a medieval brass trumpet. The music inspires the woman dancer through her graceful movements. This was made to sit as an ornamental side panel when not in service and then opens out to hold sheet music for the musician (conductor ?) who performs while standing. It is also functional as a display easel, sign holder, or presentation fixture. This custom decorative stand may be just the thing to use at a presentation, meeting, restaurant, hotel, office lobby, exhibition, auditorium or concert hall.

$2499.00 plus - Contact us to discuss final price with shipping, pick-up or delivery options. 30 lb. (Figure shipping weight at 50lbs.)

NFS "Giant at the Back Door" - White & red cedar with wood burned highlights 2012