Summary

This Tiger Automaton was super fun to make.  It has a realistic walking motion when you turn the crank.  All parts were made out of basswood with my XTool Laser. I was excited to find Ross McSweeney on Etsy.  He has lots of cool automatons.  I first bought the horse, but that one seemed a bit complicated with a 100 page instructions to start with so I went with this Tiger which was still pretty challenging, but doable in a weekend.  He even redesigned the files for me to fit on the 12"X12" 3mm thick basswood that I got from Amazon.  He provides a nice calibration file so that you can scale the file to make sure everything fits snugly.  I didn't end up gluing it together as he recommends, but it still works though it falls apart if you are too rough with it.  But, that's half the fun to re-assemble it.

Here's where you can get the file on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1136941718/walking-tiger-automata-laser-cut-files
Check Ross McSweeney's other files out too.  He keeps making new ones.