Well it's coming together pretty quickly. Today was all about refining the design of the gears and how they nestled inside each other. I'm confident enough now to start the work on the table design. Picked up a nice fat antique bible for 20$ with lots of purdy pictures which I will carefully go through to choose a for design ideas. It's looking like some of the design details from (of all things) grandfather clocks  are catching my eye. I've also chatted up my pal Russ for some advice for ageing and staining the piece to make it look nice and old. Should have the digital version finished up in a couple days...