Click the picture to see my second birdhouse. This one is a bit smaller than the last. Crown molding adorns the façade, while a tin roof adds a folksy charm.

Actually the roof didn’t come out quite right. I had hoped to use 1” thick wood on the roof, but I ended up having to use 3/8”. The sides of the roof are at a 60 degree angle, which would require the ends of both roof pieces to be cut at 30 degrees where they meet in the middle so they would fit together. If I had made the angle of the roof 45 degrees, I could have simply placed one side of the roof overlapping the other, and they would have fit flush, creating a 90 degree angle at the top of the roof.

Long story short, I can’t make a 30 degree cut across eight inches of wood because I don’t have the tools to do it. And even if I had the tools, I can’t promise you I’d know how to make a cut like that. So the solution was to overlap two thinner pieces of wood and then cover the joint with a bit of aluminum left over from my old shed.

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