This bald eagle is the same scale of a traditional carousel horse and is capable of being ridden by an adult.  It's body and tail are elongated and the rider would sit on the bird's back.

THE CAROUSEL WORKS

Celebrates 25 years in Mansfield

Imagine a place of employment where all employees have the delightful task of ultimately making their customers, young and old alike, happy.  In fact, 23 of their 28 employees are artists.  They have created 45 new carousels and restored more than 20 antique ones.

The Mansfield Carousel Works has been hand-carving carousels since 1991 and sending them around the world where they are featured everywhere from cruise ships to zoos.

To celebrate their anniversary earlier this month, the shop held its first open house in 18 years.  Even with that gala event going on, seven of their 28 employees were in Kansas City that weekend to assemble one of their latest creations.

Resident artists display a panorama that ultimately will be featured around the inside rim of a new carousel (top) and one of the panels which will appear around the outside perimeter of another carousel (below).

Currently the shop is working on new carousels for the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens, and others for the Bay Creek Resort in Chesapeake Bay, VA, as well as customers in Dayton and Detroit.

How about having a carousel animal created just for that special someone in your life?  They do that too.  Cost for a single animal on a display pole--an estimated 3,000 to 7,000 dollars; largely depending on its complexity, of course.