I have one as well, it works great!
I have a small paint booth that I use it with too.
I have the larger one but it does not have a floor. The medium one is too small for my uses. I just have some paint tarps I lay on the ground to keep dust and debris from inside the paint booth. I mostly use it outside to eliminate any over spray you can get. I have an 8 foot table I put inside the booth to give me a good place to spray things. Mine is a Sprayrite but Wagner makes the exact same spray booth. I suspect they are all made in the same factory. They just put different names on them.
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Very nice looking bird houses! I do see what looks like a very large hole in the on with the front laying open.
. Here is a very good resource for building bird houses with requirements for specific type of birds that you would like to attract. The critical items for attracting those specific types are, the size of the hole, how high or low the placement of the hole in the birdhouse body, and whether the birds require a perch at the hole or not (some do and some do not).
See Resources at:
http://indianagourdsociety.org/education/birdhouses.pdf
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You might just find the furry fellow in your den again!
Those little guys are smart at defeating human intentions sometimes.
Yep. He is not really unattended when on the loose though. Just hoping I can stop him before he eats it.
What is aluminum composite? Sounds expensive and nerve wracking to have that many opportunities for failure.
Looks great.
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A thin (0.012") aluminum skin bonded to both sides of a PE(Polyethylene) core. I bought 2 sheets 24" x 48" for right around $100. I cut the job above the part for a sanity check. I also cut a couple test pieces out of the inside of the pieces I was removing to dial in speeds & feeds. I did end up bumping the feedrate up to 120 IPM with an 1/8" O-flute.
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Thank you for the link. I see you know what you are talking about 
. These boxes (known as the “BTC-CNC box”), I patterned mainly off the “X Box” described in the NestboxBuilder article on the Xbox but I studied others. I threw away simple, inexpensive, and easy to make, going for complex, expensive, and not so easy 
. My holes are oval 1 3/8 x 2 inch, about 4.6 inch from the floor which has an area of 22.5 sq. in. (all trying to favor eastern bluebirds over starlings). Ventilation exceeds 4 sq. in. I wanted a slanted roof to shed water and the box mounts to conduit with 1/2 inch conduit brackets. I was constrained by a 1 x 6 board, 4 feet in length.Year one was a success, with bluebirds raising three broods from one house. Each nest filled the house more than half height. My advice: don’t make one like this, slap one together with a table saw unless like me; you hate table saws, enjoy a challenge, and get satisfaction when things are better than okay. Most people and birds looking for a birdhouse don’t care. Cheers.
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Quick gift.
Old cedar picnic table scrap. Planed, sanded, carved, Odie’s.
About 13" x 5"
I was considering painting the letters white but I decided to go natural. Really glad I did. The v carve exposed the end grain, leading to it darkening as it drank the finish. I’ll pretend I planned that effect and it wasn’t just a happy accident.
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Most everything good in life is a “happy accident.” +1
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Cool. I will look for some of that if my rabbit eats the barrier I made from plywood. He probably wouldn’t like aluminum but who knows.
When I told a friend of mine a year ago that I was buying a CNC he told me that I was about to make the prettiest firewood around for the next year. He wasn’t wrong. That looks amazing! Way to keep one out of the burn pile.
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What type of wood is that? Looks amazing!
I believe it was olive wood.
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That is what I thought it looked like but wasnt positive. I have been trying to source some around here but not having much luck.
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It carved out nice and clean.
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