In between art show exhibits, the BRC craftsman often fashions cell phone perches ornamented with inlays leftover from previous banjo projects. These desktop implements are gifted to musicians, kinfolk, and special friends. Click-on Cell Perches in the BRC homepage menu for a chronicle of these items and recipients.
Designed to be decorated with unused inlays from the Heron, Humming Bird, Concordia, and Amity banjos, the frontispiece of the “Pax Perch” was prepared as seen below. These mirror-image inlay patterns were etched into the unfinished face of the perch with a Dremel tool.
After a mahogany stain was applied, the selected laser cut wooden inlays were inset and cemented into the face of the smartphone holder. The central thematic image seen below is the dove bearing an olive branch symbol of peace.
The back of the cell perch (below) reiterates the peace dove theme.
Like all BRC 5-stringers that have an inlay on the heel of the banjo neck for the eyes only of the musician, the Pax Perch bears a familiar and symbolic image of a hand hidden on its undersurface seen below. This smartphone holder was gifted by the BRC craftsman to a boyhood chum who was neighbor years ago and has been an email pen pal for decades. It replaced a previous ill-fated cell perch gifted to this life-long friend, and that tale can be accessed by entering the word Viking in the homepage search engine.
Although not many people have much use for a banjo, nearly everyone could use a desktop smartphone holder.
From the BRC: Have grand and peaceful St. Patrick`s Day.
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