The Complete Book of Birdhouse Construction for Woodworkers by Scott D. Campbell

Author:Scott D. Campbell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486140315
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

TABLE 3 Nesting and Their Requirements

III

Detailed Design Suggestions

The house designs on the following pages are intended as helpful suggestions and as stimulations to the reader’s own creativity. Each design was created with a specific species in mind but is easily altered to accommodate other species of birds. When laying out designs to be cut, allow for some wood to be lost owing to the width of the saw kerf. It is for this reason that no more than one section can be drawn and cut at the same time on the same board unless you are prepared for some irregularities to result.

While any woodworker should stress precision in his work, the builder should not let minor deviations from the plans deter him from using a birdhouse. The dimensions suggested in this book are considered ideal, but of course natural nesting cavities in the wild are far from uniform in size.

The reader will notice that designs are often expressed in fractions. Many beginning woodworkers forget to allow for the width of the boards used when measuring. For instance, if a floor is made of ½” material and is recessed within the house design rather than attached to the bottom (or cut) edges of the sides, then, to be the correct length, the sides must be ½” larger than the design calls for. Or again, suppose a design is made of ¾” material, and the roof is intended only to cover and not extend beyond the left and right sides of the house. The interior space may be 6” x 6”, but, if 1½” is not added to the 6” width, the roof will not be wide enough. It should be stressed again that birds can and do accept deviations, and fractions can be ignored in many cases, but be sure of the results before wood is wasted on a useless cut.

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