coffee can birdhouse

[campasano]

I made this birdhouse using an empty 52oz coffee can ..........Mike

[minowevie]

Mike, HOW so Cute is that. shazamm. I just love that. did you cut all the shingales your self. and the idea is awsome. what is the chemny made of, and the littel planter, I guess is that what that is. how so cute. thanks for sharing , your friend Evie

oh it looks like a table, sweat.

[rayzir]

That is sooooo cool. I love it. Good job on that project. Is the coffee can surrounded by wood, or is it painted to look like wood? I'd love to know how you did this.

[campasano]

Evie, I made everything from scrap pieces of wood, The shingles were made from veener, I ripped it down to 3/4" strips, cut them into 1-1/2" pieces, Stacked them 10 to a bundle and rounded them on my disk sander, the chimney is a piece of 3/4" x 3/4"x 2"
piece of pine I cut grooves into it to make it look like bricks, painted it red and painted the grooves gray to make it look like mortar.the flu pipe is a 1/8" dowel The front panel was cut in a round shape from a piece of parque flooring and glued to the front, The entrance canopy and perch were made out of 1/4" oak. The dormer windows were 1/8" pine, the window frames are made out of wooden match sticks and the window panes are cellophane,the siding between the windows is made up of 1/8th" dowels The Lawn area is a 8 inch square piece-1/8ply, pianted green, the picket fence is also made from scrap pieces of veneer, the bench is a combination of 1/4 and 1/8th" pine, the tree trunk is a piece of 3/8" dowel and the top is fine steel wool painted green, The bird bath and small table were turned on my small hobby lathe. hope this helps....Thanks for the kind words.

[campasano]

rayzir, The coffee can is not painted to look like wood, refer to my repy to minowevie,as it tells you all about the construction, Thank you for the compliment..Mike

[utbva]

That is a really a cute bird house. So are birds going to take up residence in it or is it just for show? I made some simple bird houses a few years ago and not one was ever used by the birds. Oh well, I guess I don't know what the birds like.

[minowevie]

Oh its a bird bath, how cute. say you know what would be even more cute, if you would have trown some silaca sand on the wet paint on the chimney. that would even make it more real. no matter how cute how cute. thanks for all the building impho. your friend Evie

[Wood Dog]

Now that is some sweeeeet eye candy for sure. Love it. Every time I look at it I see something I've missed prior. Nice job Campasano.

[JohnB]

G'day Mike,
That is one nice and unique pad.

[Mike Crosa]

Makes you want to move in, it's so cute. Nice work.