This took me a week to make.  But it came out ok. It’s a carousel that plays jingle bells when you wind it up. I found it pretty difficult to make because my hands shake.  The snowmen are make from cedar, as well as their hats and scarves.  I mostly used colored magic markers on them. The carousel itself is pine with a red oak stain.  I should have used some pre-stain conditioner to help with the blotchy-ness. But now it’s just an after thought.it measures about 8 inches across and about 11 inches tall. I used some pine and make a piece of channel and glued it on the back of each snowman, then used CA glue to attach to the poles.

 

 

 

Edited December 15, 20241 yr by Pauley
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That looks great Pauley, very festive.

I think it looks great! Pretty cool idea as well.

That is really cool. Pauley! Where did you get the musical mechanism?

That is awesome Paul. Love the idea and concept! I see more of these in your future once word gets around.

 

Make sure you sign and date it.

cool idea. Now to get the snowmen moving .

23 hours ago, DuckSoup said:

That looks great Pauley, very festive.

Thank you, DuckSoup.

22 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

I think it looks great! Pretty cool idea as well.

Thank you very much.

22 hours ago, lew said:

That is really cool. Pauley! Where did you get the musical mechanism?

In the plans it had a web site for the mechanism, but they were out of business.  So I looked at Amazon and found one that would work for 16 dollars.

19 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

That is awesome Paul. Love the idea and concept! I see more of these in your future once word gets around.

 

Make sure you sign and date it.

I learned a lot from making this.  I have one of the poles misaligned (just slightly).  So I would do that part differently.  The hardest part was cutting and painting the small parts (snowmen’s caps, scarfs and mittens) because I have hand tremors.  My doctor calls them “essential hand tremors”…really ?Essential? Ha ha ha.

thank you grandpadave52.

18 hours ago, Gerald said:

cool idea. Now to get the snowmen moving .

Ya know, I thought about that, but after trying to think of a way to do that, I decided to forget that idea.  I’m not that smart.  I wanted to,put some led lighting above the snowmen, but couldn’t figure that one out either. But the moving snowmen is a good idea.  Thank you.