Standing Miniature Birdhouses - Phase 2

[Denny Knappen]

I finished the final four patterns of these Standing Miniature Birdhouses.  I used Aromatic Red Cedar for the birdhouses and Yellowheart for the birds.  I used FD Polar #5 & #7 blades and one coat of spray Shellac for the finish.  Thanks to Diana Thompson for the wonderful patterns.  Comments welcome.

[don watson]

These really look great.

[Denny Knappen]

Thanks Don.  Now the set of eight is complete.

[amazingkevin]

I finished the final four patterns of these Standing Miniature Birdhouses.  I used Aromatic Red Cedar for the birdhouses and Yellowheart for the birds.  I used FD Polar #5 & #7 blades and one coat of spray Shellac for the finish.  Thanks to Diana Thompson for the wonderful patterns.  Comments welcome.

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[Scrolling Steve]

Nice work Denny !...Have not cut any standing ones yet , but looks like i may have to. 

[Lucky2]

Denny, they look great, I like how you've adapted them to stand rather than hang.

Len

[wombatie]

They look fantastic.  Great work Denny.  I finally ordered the hanging bird houses yesterday.

 

Marg

[lawson56]

They are Beautiful   I am gonna have to give them a try,Thanks to A,K I have some patterns.

[newfie]

Those came out great thanks for sharing

[Denny Knappen]

Thanks for all the nice comments.  I did not adapt these, the patterns come from Diana Thompson's website.  In fact, I received a comment on my Facebook page from Diana.  It seems she is selling a lot of these patterns lately.

[rdatelle]

Nice job Denny. I cut a lot of the other bird houses but none standing. I'll have to check her pattern out.

[Denny Knappen]

Thanks Ralph.  Not sure if they will sell, but someone mentioned they would look great on a window sill.

[penquin]

Thanks for the photo and story.  I am one of the folks who have bought all the bird house patterns from her site.  Have done one set of the hanging ones.  Am trying to convince my wife to use her old tole painting skills to do them in colors but she like to knit a lot now so it maybe a job to get her to paint.  May offer dinner.

They are without a doubt a lot of fun to make.  I do find the #7 polar blade a bit hard to use and seem to jump for me in the cutting.  Maybe trying to go to fast.

Thanks for the inspiration.

jim

penquin

[Denny Knappen]

Thanks Jim.  No talent for painting here, so I will leave them plain.  Polar blades are aggressive, so you have to let the blade do the cutting.

[edward]

Lookin great and nice cutting.  edward

[Be_O_Be]

 Nice work, I really like the way the bases turned out. After reading your earlier post I followed up at Diana's website and was surprised how small these are. Did you enlarge the patterns, curious how big these are.

[Denny Knappen]

Thanks Edward and Bob.  No, I cut them as sized on the pattern.  The smallest is 3 1/2" and the tallest is 5".

[rdatelle]

Denny, I sold about 15 of them just word of mouth for $10.00 each.

[heppnerguy]

I have to admit, the first time I saw these little bird houses, in did not care much for them. I understand that everyone has different likes and dislikes. I miss a lot because of my own quick judgements on things. I Have found as time goes along, my mind is finally showing me that I need to take a closer look at things and I am starting to understand how I am restricting only myself when I do that. As I look at your cute bird houses, I understand how wrong I am to be so quick to decide against making something. You have helped me to see my own shortsightedness. I really like your miniature pieces

 

 

Dick

heppnerguy

[Denny Knappen]

Ralph, I have not sold any of the Standing Miniature Birdhouses yet, but I just sold three of the hanging ones.

[Denny Knappen]

Dick, glad I got your interest peaked.  Give compound cutting a try.

[Denny Knappen]

I thought you might like to see my display of Miniature Birdhouses.

[Denny Knappen]

As a follow up, someone came into ArtCrafters and purchased all the Miniature Birdhouses.  What a joy.

[Vott1]

I really like the standing birdhouses Denny.  Nice cutting, and I can't believe thats only 1 coat.  What brand of shellac do you use?

[Dave Monk]

You do a great job on those Denny. dave