Another bird nest prototype

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I've been allowing myself to drift into building methods used by animals to see if I could retain the ruggedness of say, beaver dams and nests by some of the more ambitious birds, while creating a beautiful thing I could make consistently without ridiculous cost.

Working from the Secret Sauce coatings I went full stucco on a piece I'm currently weather testing.

The outer layer is just sand soaked in Secret Sauce and coated in Spar Urethane, over a standard clump-form nest. It's prototype-y as I built it when in one of those moods where the world outside my head and hands does not exist.

 You can see the ring marks from the cottage cheese container I was using as a work stand. Shows you the challenges of working in a medium that takes hours or days to set.   If I move these into production I'll have to make a jig that won't leave marks.

Here is a quick one I whipped up to test a plexiglass and pine frame jig I came up with for making corner nests, something akin to a swallow's pocket nest.

This one is sand, a little loose fiber, Secret Sauce, and a little Portland cement.

This sucker is really firm and super durable so I think my new common ingredient is portland from now on!

                                                                 The jig.
I like that it looks like a book!