{"id":946,"date":"2017-07-04T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelbibby.co.uk\/woodwork\/?p=946"},"modified":"2018-11-14T20:22:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T20:22:11","slug":"bird-feeder-armchair-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelbibby.co.uk\/woodwork\/?p=946","title":{"rendered":"Bird Feeder Armchair Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"google_plus\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"google_plus\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a><\/span>

\"\"<\/a>My dad recently asked me if I wanted to make a new bird table for my mum’s birthday, as their one had rotted through. Although I would have loved to make a bird table, unfortunately I just didn’t have enough time to do a relatively big project and so instead I decided to buy a bird table for her and also make a small bird feeder to compliment it.<\/p>\n

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I did a little research and saw a cute little bird feeder armchair which I thought would be pretty simple to build.<\/p>\n

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\nDue to time constraints I didn’t have the time to do my usual 3D model and had to resort to the age old pen & paper technique. However considering I ended up making most of this project in a single afternoon, I’d say it turned out quite well.<\/p>\n

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I started with a single plank of ash left over from the Cot Project<\/a> (Seems like ages ago now) which I thicknessed down to about 10mm. Then I cut it into 2 sections and glued the hand-drawn templates onto them.<\/p>\n

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Once this was done, it was over to the scroll saw to cut the parts out.<\/p>\n

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I used the first cut part as a template to draw around for the second part. If I’d have made templates on the computer I could have printed 2, but as they were hand drawn I had to do it this way.<\/p>\n

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Then it was over the the disc sander to clean up the edges and a bit of hand sanding to finish off.<\/p>\n

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Next I marked up and chopped out mortices on each of the sides and also cut the tenons on the cross beam.<\/p>\n

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Then I gave everything a good sanding with a palm sander, making sure to round over the edges and give it a nicer beveled look<\/p>\n

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The next step was making the base and slats. I needed another, thinner section of ash for this (Fortunately I still had plenty). I planed on edge a flat as possible with my jointer plane and then cut strips on the table saw which I would later cut to length.<\/p>\n

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With the strips ready, all I had to do was cut them to appropriate lengths and start to attach them together. First I made the base. I just used nails to hold the base sides together as you can see here:<\/p>\n

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I also cut a section of thin plywood to make the base and drilled several small holes in it to allow water to drain out.<\/p>\n

For the back of the chair I couldn’t easily use nails, so I had to drill holes and use dowels to attach the parts together.<\/p>\n

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I put plenty of glue into these holes to make sure it wasn’t going anywhere:<\/p>\n

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Next I simply had to attach the sides. I used a combination of glue and nails for this:<\/p>\n

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And once the glue was dry…voila!<\/p>\n

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I drilled the holes for the twine which would support the chair at this stage:<\/p>\n

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Then it was on with a couple of coats of weather-proof opaque stain that I had left over from a different garden project:<\/p>\n

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Next I cut a length of thick dowel to act as the vertical support for the twine and drilled a few holes in it. This also got the 2-coat treatment to match the chair:<\/p>\n

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And that was it…all done<\/p>\n

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I was pretty happy with how this simple project turned out, escpecially since I made it all by hand without any computer modelling this time around. Also the entire project took only a day to make (Not counting waiting time for glue and paint)…which is pretty impressive…even if I do say so myself \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My dad recently asked me if I wanted to make a new bird table for my mum’s birthday, as their one had rotted through. Although I would have loved to make a bird table, unfortunately I just didn’t have enough time to do a relatively big project and so instead I decided to buy a… <\/p>\n

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