Fish bird house (Jowls)
Fish bird house (Jowls)
I worked in this bird(or is it a Fisrd) house project for my wife among my other wood working jobs. I was a bit technical with getting the parts to align correctly, but everything came together nice. I drew up a small fat fish outline using my 2-D cad program, I then moved it over to Aspire and used the modeling tools to create the fish shape . I then had to do a inside hollowing out of the fish shape . Then I ran 4 separate carving programs, a inside 3-D milling/hollowing program 1 left and 1 right, followed by a outside3-D milling left and right program. After that it was glued together, sanded and painted. In some of the areas the wall thickness was only 3/8" between the outside and inside surfaces. The fish is 6" wide by 12" long
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Re: Fish bird house (Jowls)
Great work and idea. Awesome finish as well.
Mike
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Re: Fish bird house (Jowls)
That's nice, and I like how it looks like ceramic.
-David
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Re: Fish bird house (Jowls)
Nice fish. Are there any birds using it?
Re: Fish bird house (Jowls)
The wood I used was glued together western ceder. After finishing on the CNC I took a 120 grit flap sander and sanded into the wood to get the wood rings to show out better. I then put a primer coat on the wood then added layers of white, blue and green and wiped off random areas of the paint on each layer to let the layer underneath show. I also added some random dots of red and black by using a tooth brush and a thin piece of wood to flick some paint on to the fish. I also added some metallic silver to highlight the fish scales, then a couple of coats of UV clear to protect the finishDDWALKER wrote:That's nice, and I like how it looks like ceramic.
-David