A friend of my ExSWMBO was in need of a new bird table, after her's got blown over and smashed. The base and stand was ok. I've been toying around with the idea of making a bird table with a difference for quite a while, and came up with the idea of making a scaled down shed, a sort of scale model, using studwork, horizontal cladding and a slate roof. I was going to use some off-cuts of rubberoid, but I had some off-cuts of welsh slate which I think adds a bit of class. And I needed something relative easy to do whilst off from work with a proplapsed disc. Plus there's the added bonus of the mind-altering neural painkillers making things awkward.
All the wood used is from old pallet boards i've dismantled and de-nailed, and cut to size using my table saw (with the lovely new cross-cut sled) and the bandsaw.
Some rough working drawings were made first:
And from that studwork panels made:
To which the horizontal cladding was glued and nailed, using tiny model making brass nails:
Once the glue had set (the next day), the panels were trimmed using the bandsaw and assembled:
A base was constructed by glueing 3 cut lengths of pallet boards together, and to that a raised edge was glued and screwed (to keep bird seed on the table):
The assembled shed was then nailed to the base, and a sheet of slate with pre-drilled holes fixed to it using copper nails:
Finally, the shed and it's base was screwed to the existing stand, and some brass hooks added:
Cheers
fred