World’s Biggest Bird House

The World’s Biggest Bird House.

Kidding. It’s not a bird house (it could be though), it’s actually a book return for Mt. Stewart Consolidated. Our school is revamping the library and a few staff got wind about my little hobby (I had a few beers at a staff function and started talking about woodworking). Four months later, I’m building my first build for the government! I was given pretty much free rein to build whatever I wanted. The library team showed me a few pictures of what they had in mind and away I went! I’ll go through a step by step process of the build because I know many of you were wondering how to build a library book return.
This build was rather time consuming (probably because I had no plans and just made it up as I went). I bought two sheets of plywood and broke them down at home. With two 4×8 sheets of plywood jammed into my 12×16 shop, the furnace running pretty heavily beside me, cords and tools littered across the floor and workbench and sawdust making it look like White Jaun (I could hardly see my slippers), it was pretty hot, stuffy quarters down there. I need to work on putting things away after I use them rather than at the end of the build. My wife would also probably appreciate it if I practiced this around the house, too.

I won’t waste any more of your time. Everyone’s here to see my photography skills. But first, I want to give a shout out to my mentor. If you’re from the Cardigan area, you likely know Mr. Roger Kelly. He’s the shop teacher at Morell High (I rotate days between Morell High and Mt. Stewart Consolidated). I typically ask him 45 837 questions a day. I honestly get to school and trouble shoot my builds or show him what I’m building. He is a big help to me. He’s probably sick of seeing my face but he continues to show me new skills and tricks, and like any good teacher, he is a patient man. He likely will never read this, as I’m not sure he knows what the internet is, but thank you Mr. Kelly! You’re a good man– I don’t care what anyone says!!

Check out the build process below. Again, thanks for the support! The blog has just surpassed 11,000 hits. I’m not really too sure what that all means but I do think that’s a lot. So I’ll keep the builds coming, Stay tuned!