The Making Of A Birdfeeder - Custom Made

Yes this is my hubby getting ready to cut  a bird feeder out of a gourd, this video snip it shows basically what he doe's . 

These two pictures here show you just how thick most of our gourds are ,yes there are some that are thicker and yes there are some that are not so thick.,But for the most part we have been pretty lucky getting our gourds from the farmer that we have been buying from for years  ! He has always had great quality gourds, the first year we went out to his farm  it  was durning  picking season and he drove us around on a gulf cart all around his huge farm. He talked to us the whole time and we learned so much from hem from the soil to growing and how to pick out the thicker shelled gourds! He lives in Michigan (we are from Michigan moved 9 years ago to Tennessee ) and we try every year to go back to him and get our gourds and if not I have them shipped to us from him. We have not found any around here that compare to his , but to be honest we haven't looked around very much  ( we like  our round trip, road trips to Michigan !)

Hubby has the bird feeder holes cut and now he is cleaning it out with our gourd cleaning tool to make sure that all of the seeds and seed pocket out of it. He also has the holes drilled in the gourd for all four perches and we had already sprayed it white. So after he is all done cleaning it out it will be ready to put the finishing base coat of color.

Here is the finished cleaned out bird feeder gourd ready for the finishing touches...you know like hand painted flowers,vines and leaves and maybe some butterflies...

Or maybe some custom orders likes these matching Redskins Bird feeder and Birdhouse that we have made for a really good repeat customer !

 Or maybe this custom order that we did for another customer 

We can do just about any gourd birdhouse or bird feeder that you may want to order for that Special Occasions,    Birthdays, Anniversaries , Just that Unique hard to find gift !!

 If you don't see it in our Etsy Shop ,Just Let Us Know and We will Take Care Of You !

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