Prepare and Clean Dried Gourds

management cool ok let's start by showing you the tools that we're gonna need very very simple and we're just gonna pull the board out I've done most of these gourds but I say back like three or four gourds that I knew we're beautiful and I wanted you to see them so this is a perfect birdhouse gourd right here it could be a little bit bigger but it's just fine we don't want to get in a gourd that's this big and we don't want to get in a gourd that's tiny tiny so we want to make sure it has enough square footage for the purple Martin now you can research this a little bit on your own to find out if purple martins are in your area now what I do is I'll take our gourds and I just dry them outside on top of our chicken coop really you can just take a piece of mesh or net you want to get them up off the ground and you want them to dry out so these set out in the weather over winter and dried out over winter and over part of the spring and now they're ready to rock and roll now you'll see that on this gourd there are some like flakies stuff right here okay so we're gonna be painting these gourds so there are a couple different options and different tools that you can use I like to use just a plain old sanding sponge okay so we'll sand down the door but first we got to get rid of this stem right here so we'll take a pair of cutters these are my favorite they are Corona brand I'll post links to all these tools these are my favorite trimmers right here so we'll cut that off and we'll leave a stub probably a little under a quarter of an inch okay and I've got a bucket down here oh let's get it this bucket has all the seeds and all the guts that were inside these gourds now you'll hear this gourd as I shake it like a maraca so you'll hear the gourd as I get what I do is I'll take my hand my palm of my hand and I'll cup it and I'll smack this gourd against my hand I'm gonna do it aggressively but not so aggressive that I bust or break the gourd so I'm gonna do this right here until I know I freed up most of the seeds and the guts it's like a paper like material it's inside this gourd okay so I'm going to read all that up then I'm gonna take my sanding sponge or I'll show you another cool tool if you don't like manual labor you can use something like this this is a works sander I've got all kinds of cool works tools you can actually hook up a little attachment on here and that will go to your shopback and it'll vacuum up all of the nastiness that comes off of this…