Repair of a French Royal Exchange
In this article I explain how I examined, disassembled, cleaned and repaired the large and small striking mechanisms, the minute repeater and the duplex calendar escapement of a French Royal Exchange.
Putting feathers on an automaton bird
It is really difficult to solve the problem of putting feathers on an automaton bird, but in this post I explain how I do it.
Reconstruction of the bellows of a singing bird box
In this post I am going to explain how to reconstruct a bellows. Not all bellows are the same; depending on the period, the mechanisms can be very different.