Another for the Birds

I already posted a series about this bird-house, but it was missing the roof. I got back today from a trip and was able to turn the top. The top is made of 6 pieces of Cedar and 6 thin pieces of juniper. These were glued as sets, then the sets were glued to make halves, then the two halves were glued together to make what you see in the first picture with the top hot glued to a base block. The second shot shows the bird house leaning against the lathe for comparison.



This was a rough bit of turning to reduce the wind vanes to the main body of the roof. Once knocking off the extra wood, it became much easier turning, and a lot fewer flying chunks of wood.


To turn the bottom, I first turned a cavity into my mounting block where I could insert the top, added hot glue, and turn the hollow in the bird house top.



A this point I was able to complete the turning, carefully making sure that the bottom part of the bird house fit snug in the opening in the top. After a creating a place for the top to fit, I hollowed out the top, put finish on the two parts and glued them together.


Enjoy and be careful of the splinters.