Post #800820 by TheLuckyParrot on Thu, Feb 20, 2020 12:14 PM

Ok, folks, here is the first step! This was last year, starting with re-purposing what used to be our camping music player. It is a vintage TV cabinet that we painted flamingo pink and inserted a motorized tiki diorama. It would play our tiki music via bluetooth at our campsite.

Step 1 is to strip it all down and clean it up to start fresh with a nice looking vintage TV cabinet. There were about 9 different coats of finish on this poor thing and it took a couple of days to get it all back to original raw wood and cleaned up.

(Looking back now on this photo, I notice bits of two other projects on the same worktable. The electronic in the background are for a commercial application being created by a well-known SoCal Tiki artist. And at the far left is a thick black cable that is part of my animated Tiki birds project. This latter project is much further along, but I am waiting to complete Trader-Sam's-In-A-Box because this project will teach me WiFi and I can rid the Tiki bird project of that very cable. which is a mess.)