Brutus the Catfish
There are a few individual characters that make up the entire automata piece "Fishing". This is one of them.
The Brutus VideoBrutus lurks under the dock among the gears and cams - good camouflage for a mechanical fish! Although he has a fairly menacing demeanour he is basically lazy. Content to lie quietly on the bottom he simply observes his surroundings breathing heavily, waiting for a meal to swim by.
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Brutus is made from two pieces of basswood, one for the body and one for the lower jaw. Here they are after shaping and sanding. A brass pin serves as the jaw hinge that links the parts.
His whiskers are brass rods and his eyes are made from 1/4" shaped dowels. A rod through his body, attached to a block on the top of jaw, opens and closes his mouth.
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