Upcycled Antique Rake Birdfeeder - SOLD!
I picked up this rake a while back because it looked like it had some potential to be something. Luckily, I remembered I had an old chicken feeder trough. They both started talking to me and this is what they turned into....
I cut and flattened an antique tin canister for the artwork on the back. Some numbers from an old license plate make the "73". A metal star from a napkin ring sits up top. And some brass letter stencils came together to spell "FOOD". I painted some galvanized sheet metal red and soldered it to the brass stencils. Then I scratched the paint up to make it more uniform with the rest of the stuff. The only thing that remained was bending a few of the prongs to make perches and the outer two to hold up the feeder trough. Now if I can just keep the squirrels out of it!