El Dorado's Mini Saloon...

[Malicious]

I decided to make El Dorado a "Mini Saloon".... He's still a little guy, so he gets a little cage. It's a 12"x10"x20" Screen cage, with a pvc bottom, same as LLL cages. When you own a furniture store and business is slow you find stuff to do... Anyhoo... I have a ton of wood and stuff here at the shop, so it was a freebee project. It's pine, and was distressed to give in that "western" look.

 

[Teresa]

That is a sweet cage. Looks grate!!!!

 

[bigcappa]

man im digging "western" look, great job dudei

 

[PantherVeileD]

yeah good job!! can't wait to see you decorate it and have him in there!!

 

[laurie]

Jay I did not sell you that boy so you could have him as a drinking buddy, a saloon indeed!! His saloon looks great but he is much to young to drink liquor.

 

[Chuck G]

You could sell those at shows. Great job!

 

[Cainschams]

Nice looking cage!!! If only I could build one like that. Mine are a mess hahaha. They do what they are supposed to though, keep them in

I would like to see you and your drinkin buddy in there together

 

[chambabysitter1]

5 stars for this thread. That is one hot homemade cage. Nicely done!

I am still wrapping mine up. Wait till you see it, it's like comparing ground beef to filet mignon.

I love the stain, in fact the whole thing looks very professional.

 

[warpdrive]

hey Jay,

sorry bro, but that thing is just way too small for your new little guy and me to sitdown and and have a drink together.
...and don't even think that I'm going to sit outside such a nice cage while he gets to drink inside it!

wow Jay, that looks nicer then some peoples houses. great job bro.

Harry

 

[Malicious]

Thank you guys for the comments, I'm glad you like it.

I really enjoy working with wood and am fortunate enough to have a wood shop at work.

I try to reuse old pieces of cut offs and damaged furniture to make usable stuff, when ever I can. Go Green!!

You guys are gonna laugh when I tell you what that cage started out life as....


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[chambabysitter1]

I have a hard time believing 2 things.

1. It was made from a palette

2. A palette was in good enough quality to turn into something like that. I don't think I have ever seen a palette that wasn't beaten up.

Proved me wrong though. Awesome stuff.

 

[warpdrive]

so, you wana redo my kitchen, Jay?
I'll fly ya in...

extra, realy nice job you did with junk. grats

Harry

 

[Malicious]

One mans trash is another mans.....uhh...I mean chameleons castle?

-Jay

 

[blackbetty]

You rock!!

I love when people use what is no longer usable to make something great..and even moreso to house something special. You go boy!

 

[ChameleonAyer]

My bf and I have been trying to build a new cage for our ambanja, but the screen is all pokey from where it was cut. So, I was wondering how you attached the screening to the frame of your cage?

 

[Malicious]

My bf and I have been trying to build a new cage for our ambanja, but the screen is all pokey from where it was cut. So, I was wondering how you attached the screening to the frame of your cage?

I used a pneumatic upholstery staple gun, with 3/8" staples.

I have some very cool vintage upholstery guns from I'm guessing the 50's-60's when we used to manufactuer sofas and chairs.

A simular gun today would run you about $200 and up. So I am very excited to have inherited 5 of them!

You can use just about any pneumatic staple gun though. The hand staplers just don't have enough power to drive staples into wood very well. I also trim the screen along the staple line to prevent rough edges.

-Jay

 

[vindicatedornot]

oh this is what you meant!

This is exactly what I was going to try and do. Only 7'x4' instead. I love how it came out!

-Andrea

 

[Malicious]

Some better photos of the cage on my regular camera, incase anyone wanted to see it better then the camera phone picture.

I had El Dorado in it for the first time today and he seams to like it, I added some repti-vines and a umbrella plant. It just wasn't warm enough now to leave him in it for very long. Hopefully we'll have better weather on Wednesday.







-Jay

 

[AJA]

Jay

I think you need to find a mini set on longhorn steer horns to mount on the front.

Nicely done!

 

[laurie]

Jay when I come down to sou cal are you going to build me a saloon so I have a place to stay?? It will need to be slightly bigget than the one for El Dorado.