The Wooden Duck

Over the last year or so I’ve built up alot of offcuts which I’ve been saving up until some inspiration manifested it’s self. After sifting through everything I had the best bits organised-ish.

I neglected to manifest any sort of inspiration but thankfully I got a request to build a birdhouse! It would be to replace a tired looking old birdhouse that has been outgrown by it’s main occupier. This happened to be a cat.

With a vague plan in my head I engaged my child mind and started playing with shapes to find a pretty pattern.

After landing on a nice pattern I alternated the grain direction of the triangles depending on what way they pointed which gave a sort of 3D effect that I’m sure the cat would appreciated.

Next was to make the upright/legs to hold the roof at a nice angle. I happened to have 60 degree angle offcuts left from the hex-table so this was perfect. I glued a few bits of pallet wood together and joined them to the angled piece with pocket holes and wood glue.

Then I glued down the triangles to some plywood and put some weighty things on it whilst it dried.

After all the parts where made I just had to trim down the roof section and assemble it all. I decided to add some sides to the birdhouse but made sure to add drain holes to each corner so water wouldn’t collect on the base. Finally I gave it a couple coats of Teak oil and that’s job done! Here’s another high quality video: