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By David Wakefield
This guy holds a special place in my heart. I have wanted to design him for about two years. Being a redheaded woodworker, he has been my “familiar” since I moved to the woods of southeastern Ohio some 35 years ago. Pileated woodpeckers need a bit of room to be comfortable, so they are pretty scarce in many parts of the country, but here in the heart of the Appalachian hardwood forest they are quite common. I see or hear one almost every day in the woods.
This toy presented many firsts for me as an animated-toy designer. He is my first and only vertical toy. He is designed to go up a wall, not across the floor. I have also never used a spring before (the spring is needed to return the head forward after the cam pushes it back, as gravity cannot do the job in a vertical position). An unforeseen side effect is a loud pecking sound as his beak hits the wall. The irony of this driving parents “up the wall” is not lost on me!
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