Chicken Scraps

 Dormers are done for now.....what to do with all the scraps?

Make some chicken boxes for the,...... ahem,....... fancy
  "Private Label Estate Wine"     

Here we go.

Step one is to cut any kind of wood you can scrounge . I am using my scrap  3/4" plywood but I have used OSB too.

Material List

2- 6"x 9 1/2" pieces for sides

2- 6"x 8" pieces for sides

1- 8"x 8" piece for bottom

1 10"x10" for the head and tail

* I used 3/4 inch plywood.  If you use another width of

wood you must adjust your measurements accordingly*

Cut out the chicken head and tail with a scroll saw.  Cut out side parts with a table saw or circular saw.

Sand all edges smooth.  Your friends don't want slivers for Christmas. Silver maybe, well for sure they would want silver.... but not slivers.

Glue and screw head and tail onto the sides that are 6"X 8" as shown in photo.   This will be the front and back piece.

Countersink screws.

Drill two holes for your wire handle on the two big sides as shown.

I glued, nailed, and screwed all my sides and bottom together to make a square box.  You could just use an air nailer and glue though.

Cut a piece of heavy wire 3 feet long.  Bend it in half.  Place one end in a drill and the other end in a vise or clamp it so that it will not move.  Turn drill on and twist wire until desired amount of twist is in it.  Bend each end so that it will stay in the holes you drilled in your side pieces.

Fill all your screw holes with wood filler, and let dry. 

 Sand Sand Sand

I used a water based stain called golden wheat.  Base coat the entire box in a color of your choice.  You can paint it a solid color too.  I chose this method because I wanted a rustic look.

Paint the comb and wattle and eye area with red acrylic craft paint.

 Details are added with white and black acrylic craft paints.

Fill basket with some wine...(yes that is dandelion wine and no I would not make it again!) and no, it was not part of the gift!  YUCKY!
Originally my blog was going to be called The Celery Stock.
Stock for merchandise....not cuz of a spelling error which have been many.
Anyways Feral Turtle is really what I am.

 CHEERS!

Dormers For The Old Girl Part 10

PART 10  YAY!!!!!!!!!

If you missed part 9,  CLICK HERE.

We completed our task of getting everything closed up for snow day.    

Scaffold in place and Tyvek on.

 Attic vent hole cut.

A few more views.

Last window installed.  Gable vent in place. Roof return (bottom corner) still needs to be shingled.

Roof is completely shingled.  Yay.

The dormers in all their glory!

Fascia and soffit on.  Notice the 2x2s.  We had to shim out the wall to make it level with the old stucco.  This is prep work for the siding which we will install one day......

Eavestrough is installed.

Setting up scaffold for last side of house.  She needs to be dressed up with some fascia and soffit.

Some of the soffit on.

That's me installing j-trim.Check out my lovely layers of clothing.  It's getting chilly out so I am glad we are done.  Speaking of clothing, I am going to rave about some awesome gloves.  They are called Hyflex by Ansell.  I prefer the yellow gloves and have burned through 4 pairs.  They have saved me from asphalt  and wood slivers. (not hammering your fingers though)  I love them.  Unfortunately this is the last pair, and I didn't get a before picture of them so the coating has started to wear off..  The white and grey are OK too but I loved the support and flexibility of these ones.  They also helped keep my hands warm as the weather got chillier.

Fascia and soffit complete on old house.


Before....

After!

This picture was taken this morning.  Kind of feels like we are in for snow today.

So glad to be finished......well for now.
 Thanks for sharing our journey.  Stay tuned for some inside work and some Christmas crafts!

Click here to see the journey continue.  Interior work begins

CHEERS!

Dormers For The Old Girl Part 9

Today I will post on a few days of work.

If you missed part 8,  click here. 

The old part of the house was waiting for fascia and soffit too, so we have been doing this as well as working on the dormer.  We have a radial arm saw that we purchased years ago from a retired woodworker.  We put the blade on backwards to cut the aluminum.  It works great except I have to cut the soffit from both sides as it is 16" wide and the saw makes a 14" cut. 

 Old house with fascia and soffit

Another view.

Window one is installed.

 Our trusty radial arm saw.  Check out that scaffold. 

 Window wrap installed.  This window is almost complete.  We have to foam the rough opening.  Gable vent in place.  Yay.  Dormer is complete until spring.  We will be siding after new windows are installed in the rest of the old house.  Wow.   Look how far we've come.

We started to move scaffold, but our good friends popped by for a cup of tea.  It's 5PM so we will continue tomorrow.  Next step is the final phase.  Complete window, vent install and finish all the fascia and soffit on the old house.  To see the final part CLICK HERE.

CHEERS!