Bird cage by siderits

Last crawled date: 2 years, 11 months ago

Four Part Expandable Bird House
Model of a scalable Birdcage constructed from four 3D printed parts and dollar store wood "Shish Kabob skewers". Door opens and swings.
This is a basic design that I used for a narrow shelf decoration,
but it can scaled up just by adding more cross beams.
You can line these up in different directions, add back rooms, make a maze, expand out or add floors...
The real fun of this project was to design the decorations. I haven't included any of mine since I like the look of the project plain and everyone has their own design taste.
Tips for assembly:
Use acetone: ABS plastic from the left over support structures 2:1 mix to glue weld the parts.
use an alignment tray to make sure all the angles 90 degrees.
-use the full arch placed first to support the quarter arches against long place holder wood bars.
Suggestions for decorations that you might consider include the following:
Front steps
Finials for columns
Ridged half columns for front center part
Windows with frames
Roof Peak decorations
Roof Ridge with spacers for crossover wires
Bell tower or widow's peak
Use metal wires instead of wood for walls and roof
Flag pole with pennants
Mail box
Lamp post
Eve decorations for arches
Ridge peaks
Ideas for "better" versions of this basic design:
Open bottom tray for cleaning, if you keep anything alive in one of these.
Roll arcs of copper wires to cross over roof instead of long way wood beams.
Add a few LEDs to the inner roof beams
File Parts List:
Quarter_arc (12)
Half_arcs(6)
Stanchion (12)
Cross_beam (32)