Mind boggling craftmanship

jonnyburgo

Amazing piece of old furniture, serious brains at work here.

guitarfishbay

Seriously impressive.  Though probably a retired Decepticon.

frankus

I can't stand those Zemekis Les Pauls.

vasselmeyer

Watch this extraordinary piece, the Peacock Clock, which is in The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. It was made in 1781 by a British clock maker for Katherine the Great. Unfortunately the best video I could find is in Russian but watch from 2:15 onwards:

Hootsmon

cheers Bro but much prefer my cabinets with 4x12s

holnrew

It's amazing what they used to do. So creative with such limited resources. I love this automaton.

Axe_meister

The art of mechanics like this is truly being lost. Even car manufactures can't get a simple folding roof right 

Hootsmon

Jeez... can you imagine leavin' yer hash stash in that unit,especially after a few blows?

racefaceec90

try this also 

man built a fully working ferrari  (just jawdropping) 

viz

vasselmeyer said:

Watch this extraordinary piece, the Peacock Clock, which is in The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. It was made in 1781 by a British clock maker for Katherine the Great. Unfortunately the best video I could find is in Russian but watch from 2:15 onwards:

Wow, they should make that in a watch version.