I love your videos! I love singing Bird boxes I want one!
@abigailr14608 ай бұрын
hi! i've recently become very interested in singing bird boxes, so i was really delighted to find your channel. thanks for filming these videos and documenting this wonderful craftsmanship. i was wondering, how did you get into singing bird box repair? with how expensive antiques are, going into repair sounds really intimidating. i've never been good at delicate work like that, but i really enjoy taking stuff apart and figuring out how it works. i think if i ever repaired one, i'd get too attached to it and never sell it haha thanks! hopefully i can purchase from your shop one day!
@ericaswackyworld4 ай бұрын
NICE
@carmadme11 ай бұрын
Wonderful
@KarthusDreams10 ай бұрын
Wonderfull
@Ecksterphono2 ай бұрын
I was wondering if the swiss had a sense of humor. Can these horologists to this day build a mechanical bird box with a human head on a birds body and build an intricate bird box with all the facial features and expressions. If so, how many levers and cams would it take and levers in the head mechanism to do this feat. Jaquet Droz did the writing boy mechanical doll. Maybe they can do the singing bird boy and call the box "Cerveau d'oiseau". Here is a sample video of an idea🤣🤣🤣 kzfaq.infoUoS72uw5-Kg?si=Jc5q3Zlvl1f1zJKr
@paulomattozo668211 ай бұрын
👏👏👏👏
@NiaJustNia11 ай бұрын
The next time you repair one of these, could you do a long video? I'd love to see the inner workings!
@troyduncan196911 ай бұрын
I have a few videos showing the inner workings of different bird boxes. Here is a a video from a very rare fusee wind example (mid 1800s). More complicated than anything made post 1870 or so. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nttgrdhytZ2cpo0.html
@NiaJustNia11 ай бұрын
@@troyduncan1969 I mean like a long step by step video of a repair. I love watching clockwork repairs before bed, it's a purely selfish request lol
@troyduncan196911 ай бұрын
I have never made a video of that prior; it would be a very long video.@@NiaJustNia
@NiaJustNia11 ай бұрын
@@troyduncan1969 You could do it as a multi part series with half hour episodes
@Thecompanioncrate11 ай бұрын
What's the approximate age of this example? And I assume that's also Ivory for the case.
@troyduncan196911 ай бұрын
Circa 1920-1930. Case is not real ivory - seems to be carved bone or possibly even a faux ivory/early composite material.
@a.a.a.836511 ай бұрын
The cost to make one of those these day's.
@troyduncan196911 ай бұрын
Extremely high and the quality is also not as good. Back in the day, labor was cheap and technology was expensive. Today the inverse is true.