Thread: Rosella Feathers

Very nice when your pen supplies crash land in your driveway hehe, sounds like "aussie post" lol. Must be a sign from the gods hehe, I said we needed to make a start on feathers for pens . cheers ~ John

Sorry to hear about the bird but at least it did not die in vain, I am sure you will resurrect it in many fine pens. I feed lots of wild birds here but very few feathers.

another 200 and you could make a nice feather pillow .
my granny used to make rosella jam , i dont have the recipe though.

but not being silly , feather is some thing i have yet to try for pens ,its on the to do list volume one .

Here's 3 cast with the yellow & black, and red + yellow, Sierras & EBs, but I obviously need to use more feathers to provide better coverage.

Here's the final pens from my trials, definately need to use more feathers, but that is what learning is all about

I think from the ordered random placement and irregular structure a certain "bohemian" effect has been created, on the other hand ,lol. came out much better than the process and the casts would have indicated at the time . Cheers ~ John

Neil how many would it take do you reckon I rang my uncle who has a few avaries and asked for those feathers which do come off. Quite a few he has I am told (RB snake around). Even offered me Macaw feathers

these are only very small feathers, so took quite a few. You need to overlap them and the little bugg_rs aren't easy to place I reckon I get about 3 pens per bag above

Thanks Neil

I saw your other pens in the other thread were the larger easier to do ?

How many did you use of those

Just sent an e-mail to uncle's 2 daughters and grand daughter all whom have birds.

The male cockatoo used only one feather, they were very big, just cut the back of the spine off them wrapped them around. The spines were a pain, so on the females, I used either side of the spine and it took 2 feathers.