Mini Bird Houses are addictive!

[Dak0ta52]

After seeing the bird house pieces Denny and some of the others have done, I just had to try them. The Ornament house patterns I found online, and the standing house patterns were purchased from Wooden Teddy Bear. As you can see they are a mixture of colors. I experimented with various blades but decided I liked cutting with the Pegas #5 MGT the best. I tried the Pegas #5 Double Skip but found I liked the MGT cutting better. The horse is from a pattern purchased from Wooden Teddy Bear. I use Pegas #0/2 and #1 spiral blades. They are stained with Ipswich and Natural with the backers stained Black and Pine. There were a few tricky spots. I found that when I make my pattern from the purchased patterns, I would have to reduce the stroke down to .004 in order to distinguish the cutting area between some of the lines. Hope you enjoy.

[Denny Knappen]

So, you are now addicted to the Miniature Birdhouse Ornaments.

[Dak0ta52]

4 hours ago, Denny Knappen said:

So, you are now addicted to the Miniature Birdhouse Ornaments.

That I am!!! The cutting doesn't take very long. The finishing is time consuming.

[rjweb]

They are all excellent, Rj

[wombatie]

Terrific work on all of your houses and the horses.  Well done.

Marg

[Scrappile]

Those horse pictures are beautiful!  I'm not addicted to the mini bird houses, they are fun to cut like any 3D cutting is in my book.   

[Denny Knappen]

On 7/3/2025 at 4:06 PM, Dak0ta52 said:

That I am!!! The cutting doesn't take very long. The finishing is time consuming.

I dip mine in diluted Shellac.  Doesn't take long at all.

[Roberta Moreton]

I love them! 

[Jim McDonald]

I paint my birds since i just cut them from square poplar dowel stock. I put some detail in mine, just to challenge myself. 

[Dak0ta52]

17 hours ago, Jim McDonald said:

I paint my birds since i just cut them from square poplar dowel stock. I put some detail in mine, just to challenge myself. 

Wow! Those are really nice. Not sure if my shaky hands could be that delicate.

[btseed357]

On 7/3/2025 at 11:25 AM, Denny Knappen said:

So, you are now addicted to the Miniature Birdhouse Ornaments.

You have mentioned the Winfield Collection in previous comments in Scroll Saw Village.  I saw that these are not provided in pdf format, so if you don’t mind me asking, when you got the patterns, were they sent as individual patterns that could easily be copied for multiple uses or were they in a book?

[Denny Knappen]

2 hours ago, btseed357 said:

You have mentioned the Winfield Collection in previous comments in Scroll Saw Village.  I saw that these are not provided in pdf format, so if you don’t mind me asking, when you got the patterns, were they sent as individual patterns that could easily be copied for multiple uses or were they in a book?

As I recall, they were on 8 1/2" x 11" paper.  I put them into the computer as PDFs.

[Jim McDonald]

4 hours ago, btseed357 said:

You have mentioned the Winfield Collection in previous comments in Scroll Saw Village.  I saw that these are not provided in pdf format, so if you don’t mind me asking, when you got the patterns, were they sent as individual patterns that could easily be copied for multiple uses or were they in a book?

The birdhouses were published as an article in one of the magazines a few years ago. Multiple shapes of the houses. Through the years, I have lost which magazine/edition due to many copies and I cut off the information. 

The artist was the late Diana Thompson.

[Denny Knappen]

33 minutes ago, Jim McDonald said:

The birdhouses were published as an article in one of the magazines a few years ago. Multiple shapes of the houses. Through the years, I have lost which magazine/edition due to many copies and I cut off the information. 

The artist was the late Diana Thompson.

The issue is CWWC May 2011, but the ones I showed were from the Winfield collection also done by the late Diana Thompson.

 

[btseed357]

1 hour ago, Jim McDonald said:

The birdhouses were published as an article in one of the magazines a few years ago. Multiple shapes of the houses. Through the years, I have lost which magazine/edition due to many copies and I cut off the information. 

The artist was the late Diana Thompson.

Thanks. I’ve been searching for them and the only free pattern for a miniature birdhouse is one that I’ve found is on Steve Goods website which is pretty good.  After making a couple of them I’m getting the fever and want a little more variety so I ordered the Winfield collection from online.