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Parrot Box! -Plus: We Have Video!

3/8/2013

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We have a parrot, who we love, even though she is a screaming jerk some of the time. So we made a parrot box. This is two hidden boxes. The top box is pine and the bottom is sapele, both fronted by a painted and woodburned maple parrot head and tail, and woodburned purpleheart wings. The wings are hinged and held closed by magnets- they open to reveal the top box. The tail is also hinged and raises to reveal the sapele bottom box. This should have been pretty straightforward, but it turned out that there were some tricky engineering issues, especially once Tom decided it HAD to have that second box on the bottom (he was right). And then it turned out that  multiple coats of lacquer were needed. I don't think the picture or video do it justice- the green head and tail are very sparkly, as I added iridescent dust to the paint. We liked this so much we're repeating the experiment with a goldfish box- stay tuned for it in the next few days.

See  video below of it opening. I am VERY impressed with my ability to upload a video.

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    Tom works full time building boxes and entertaining and feeding pets.

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