A New Hat? For an Owl

A coworker brought this in recently. It's an owl that hides a tape measure.

The end of the tape had a bent piece of metal pressed onto the end. This eventually fell off:

I made a new end out of machined brass sheet. It's a clamp and some small M1.6 bolts clamp the end onto the tape:
 

 Another property of the end, apart from just being on the end, is that it is a fixed distance from the marking on the tape so it needs to be pretty accurately at the 0cm point at the end of the brass. tape measures aren't massively accurate as the tape stretches and so on, but the new end is pretty close:

The other job (perhaps it's main job, really) of the end is to stop the tape from disappearing into the body of the owl when it is fully wound in. This it does well, probably better than the original:

Is that a hat? I'm not sure what owl's have on their heads, probably nothing. I thought about making it in a hat shape, but that wouldn't have worked well as an end for measuring, so I went with a flat end.

It's interesting how complicated something like this can be when you try to make another one. It's off to the long term test of use now...