Richard;
Yes, it would be nice to chat with you on various magic construction topics. If closer to each other, we might even do a cooperative project. Hmmm...maybe in the future? Thanks for the kind words.

Pete;
A glutton for punishment is right! This is an extremely finicky project with tons of intricately machined parts, hundreds of tiny rivets, a wide variety of specialized alloys, etc. Making the fist prototype is going extremely slowly as I am making jigs etc. as I go. The following sets will move along a little quicker (but still slowly due to all of the hand work). My guess is that this might be the last time such cages are ever built. There is just too much work and time involved. It took a month just to round up all of the various alloys!

Take care, guys.
Jim

It might be added, you could make your own canary quite easily with a bit of yellow velvet, sewn and stuffed; and it neednt' take up much more room than the latex one.