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Grifford Puttertinker the Unhandyman

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Grifford Puttertinker is an unhandyman. Everyone knows one. Some are friends, others family members, and the most unfortunate are actually married to one. They are the antithesis of the fix it man. He has a warped sense of finances, and assumes that he can save money by making or fixing things himself. In the meantime, he goes out and buys a whole workshop full of tools so he can save money by doing things himself rather than buying them or paying someone to fix broken items. He is also cursed with the fact that he just isn't good at what he claims to be. New projects are usually shabbily made, unfuctional, or just downright ugly, but he is blind to this fact. He attempts to fix items around the house, and ends up making them completely worthless. A broken chair that could be fixed by someone who knows what he or she is doing, can be made entirely unfixable after Mr. Unhandyman gets through with it.

This can be a woman's worse nightmare, to find out that her husband is one of these types. Instead of just hiring someone who knows what they are doing, she is forced to watch as the money slowly disappears into her husband's "workshop" along with any item that she could have had fixed before he could get ahold of it. With experience, a wife learns to have household repairs quickly fixed before the husband gets home in an attempt to keep him from finding out anything was wrong to begin with.

He will spend twice as much for tools, plans, and materials to build a birdhouse that falls apart before a bird can even nest in it than he would have spent by just buying a new birdhouse in the first place, and this is exactly what Grifford Puttertinker does. He is an unhandyman extraordinaire and today he is making just that kind of birdhouse. Most nails have missed their mark and personally, I pity the bird who tries to make it's home there.

Grifford is handsculpted out of polymer clay without the use of molds of any kind. His head hands and feet have all been strengthened with Aves Apoxie Sculpt, and has a soft body over a wire armature. His tools are all handsculpted from Aves Apoxie Sculpt and painted with acrylic paints. He stands 11 inches tall in his semi-bent posture.

His hair is made from undyed mohair, and his clothes are all sewn by myself. His shoes are leather with Aves Apoxie Sculpt soles. The worktable was constructed from various wood and has some scrap pieces underneath from which he can attempt to make more substandard bird housing. He comes with all you see pictured, and none of the items are permanently affixed to the surface, so you may arrange them as you please. However, Grifford is able to stand via two small rods that hold him securely in an upright position. The only items not hand made by me are the nails and the base, however, the base was hand finished by myself in a red mahogany stain.

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