Thread: Newbe Needs Help

If you can make the appropriate arbour for a power drill, you might be able to use a 4" flapper disk to do this. Or, you could have a look around the craft section in Bunnings for an insert of the appropriate shape rather than trying to shape the base.

gday mate
my granfather breeds canaries and cockatiels and we have built heaps of nest boxes for the cockatiels and none of them have needed a concave for the nest allthough perhaps budgies are different just another tip make sure you make the nest boxes out of ply wood dont use any treated woods cus if the birds eat which em which they normally do your gona have a pretty crap breeding season lol hope i could help
cheers

i just realised this was your first post welcome aboard

Thanks mate yes i use to breed the little buggas 40 odd yrs ago and concaves where not thought of then they do help thought to keep the eggs together and thanx for the welcome

I made similar concaves using the little sander wheels available for Dremels etc.

Try doing it manually with a really sharp carving knife or chisel.

just had an idea how bout you use one of these router bit with a template it wont make a complete concave but it should achive just the same things though http://www.carbatec.com.au/store/ind...40_17360_18090

If I were to address the problem, I would mount a square on a faceplate and turn a Bowl in the center of the block, using my lathe... then incorperate the block into the construction as the bottom of the box.

why not hot glue a saucer in the correct place, cut a false bottom around the saucer to make it flush on the rim
les

If you have a lot to do and are keen you might follow the method used by David marks to use a router to carve a bowl in the middle of a table.

See
http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/ww_tab...877238,00.html

Budgies don't care about decor: ours seem to prefer a hollow in the bottom but they don't seem to care about whether it's nice and smooth or otherwise.

I built two boxes not long ago for our breeders, simply roughing out the hollow with a hammer 'n chisel. The first one I spent ages sanding, trying to make it nice and smooth... by the time I was done I was bored with the whole project and didn't bother with a clean up of the second. Can you guess which one our budgies prefer? The second, the "rough" one, has seen about 6 or 7 clutches while the smooth one has only been used once.

Probably just the positioning of the boxes (the rough 'un is slightly more protected from the weather) as , apart from the hollow, the boxes are otherwise identical... it just goes to show that rough enough is good enough as far as the budgies are concerned.