Broken Gourd Recovery

I started out with a "birds nest gourd" that I wanted to make a bird house with. Unfortunately I knocked it off the work bench and had to put the creative side of me to work. Serendipity strikes again :-)

The gourd was destined to be a plain and simple bird house to hang out side my house

Clumsy me knocked it off the work bench changing its destiny forever

Cut the top off and clean up the edges

Scribe some lines to contain my abundant imagination

Repeated wave shape worked for me

Woodburner/Soldering irons should be part of every shop

This step took some time and didn't get as good a documentation as it deserved. I used a Dremel tool to slowly shape the neck part of the gourd until it would fit on the side with minimal gap and then glued it in place Easy as cake.