How to Make a Bird Box
By woodlandstv
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Here Jim Edwards expertly offers us a step by step guide to building a bird box. Jim makes and sells various animal and bird boxes to help raise funds for the `Monday Group` - a volunteer organisation that maintains public rights of way throughout the countryside of East and West Sussex.
http://www.mondaygroup.org
An Adliberate film http://www.adliberate.co.uk for WoodlandsTV http://www.woodlands.co.uk/tv
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In my opinion, this is the ideal project to be done by hand tools rather than power tools.
Note the amount of boxes behind him. He's making and selling them so it's not a purist "live in the woods" project, it's semi commercial. Power tools for labour saving it is! Not to mention he did say when using hand tools he's not that accurate. Personally I turn a blind eye to the tools, I'd rather see the boxes made of thicker wood!
@edward charles Hi Edward,thank you for the reply.
"when using hand tools he's not that accurate" That is my point. When you start a project like a bird box, you can hone your skill and let the birds decide if it is good enough.
I agree that he seems to be doing this so he can sell the boxes. I just think, for the beginner woodworker like me, projects like this would be best demonstrated by hand.
Nice film Jim, and well made bird houses. I particularly like the bee and lacewing house. Thanks for the information.
Well done,nice video
Nice video. Maybe you should think about wearing safety glasses when you are operating electric saws of any kind…….eyes are so difficult to replace Jim.
what are the inserts that you use for the bolts to screw into to
Hi Charlie
The inserts are M6 insert nuts which you can get from Screwfix in packs of 50 – product code 59937. I use M6 x 40mm pan head machine screws with a washer to fix the front into the insert nuts (also from Screwfix).
Yeah, I also saw that Woody Hyezmar is giving free access to his woodworking book in his site. He also shows a different way to do this.
Good vid. A mic would would make it a great vid
Joost G
June 11, 2014