How to make the Best DiY Hummingbird Whirligig from Costa Rica
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Steps in construction of a colorful little Humming bird Whirligig
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I keep a large wooden Jorgensen clamp close to my drill press, it would be handy for the type of drilling you do
Thanks for the tip. Its a good idea👍
Thanks to your videos, I completed my first cardinal spinner! Yay! The wind blew hard all day. It stopped as i put the bird out.🤣 but it looks great!
Thank you!
Glad I could help!
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Very informative and helpful. But, please do something about the hand held camera work. Made me queasy trying to watch the last part.
Oh oh, make a template to find center on the dowel. Drill a blind hole in a scrap piece, allowing the tip of the spade bit to break through, which would be center. Then you could put this template over the end of the dowel piece and drill the smaller hole through and into the end of the dowel.
Great idea. Thanks !
Saludos desde chile
Gracias desde Virginia en el Norte !
Somebody needs a new blade on the band saw?
What you are hearing is the upper blade backing bearing squeeling. The blade is actually pretty new.
😂 Well then Bill, send him one!😊
Could you have drilled or started the mounting hole before you cut out the bird, when the wood was flat?
possibly, I will have to try something like that.
Perhaps you need another template for the paint lines. I know it doesn't need to be exact, but hay, let's make it easier.
Good suggestion !
Sure like what are doing here with this hummingbird whirligig project.
BUT I and wondering where I can get a print our picture of hummingbird body pattern & the wings pattern?
Thanks in advance for your reply. I am looking forward to start making some wooden whirligigs here in my putterShop in New Brunswick, Canada
Thanks for the comment. You might try looking at some of the stuff on Pintrest website. Good luck with your whirligig making.
@@gwheyduke thank you for replying so very quickly to my inquiry. I just checked round Pinterest as you recommended and I found good pics of your work that I can easily make prints of and scale to the size of 16” wing span & 14.75” body of the hummingbird. I find your reply very interesting as I have learned to find many of my woodworking project patterns for our flock of 15 grandchildren on Pinterest.
Of interested this aging retired engineer has figured out a way I can safely make up the whirligig HUBS using a gig block so I can cut the slots in the hubs for the wings at the proper angle with my DeWalt Scrollsaw ( my favourite tool in my putterShop ) rather that the bench saw method that looks a bit dangerous to me, who is very fortunate too still have all 10 fingers after 60 years or so playing with wood.
Could you verify that I correctly heard in one of your videos the the wing slot angle in the hub is 57.5 degrees?
THANKS SO MUCH FOR WHAT YOU DO & what you share.
…I enjoyed your RUclips video visiting a local Whirligig Factory in Maine.
…we live just across the USA border of the state of Maine & our Canadian province of New Brunswick.
Hi again
Hi again I just wanted to let you and your readers know I successfully came up with a SIMPLE GIG for cutting whirligig hubs on my DeWalt Scrollsaw ( or any Scrollsaw, for that matter ). It even ended up being easier to design than I first thought. One could even use this little gig on one’s bandsaw too …but bandsaw blades move much faster that Scrollsaw blades so somewhat more dangerous.
If you could sent me a eMail address or whatever works I have some pictures of this Scrollsaw whirligig hub cutting gig.
Thanks again for all your help you so kindly provide.
I just subscribed a few days ago and I like your videos. Especially the whirligig ones. I drew up my own pattern of a Canadian Goose. I'm going to enlarge it to 36 inches in length. I wasn't sure how to figure out the tip to tip wing length on a hub. L was thinking of making the hubs 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 square. So I searched the net and found you. How do I figure that length? I have a background in art, architectural drafting and design, and I'm a retired ironworker (structural fitter, layoutman, and template maker for 46 years). But honestly I'm SO stumped! Any advice? I've made a few whirligigs of my own design, but not the flying type. This will be my first. Thanks and take care!
Great Idea ! Love to see some pictures of that big goose when you get it finished ! So glad you like the videos. Thanks for the comment.
For the hubs, you just need to think about having enought area (in the slots) to hold the "wing" blades securely. For a 36 inch Whirligig I"m thinking a 3 inch X 1 inch square hub with 1 inch deep slots would work. Use a 1/4" axle with 3/8 inch OD bushing. You could make the wings the same length as the body. WoW that's going to be Awesome!
@@gwheyduke Thanks!
Well? Have you finished the goose?
We have the same band saw. Does yours vibrate? I bolted it to a sandwich with a piece of 1/4 plywood and a piece of anti fatigue floor mat. It really helped it out
Yes, some. The balde backing bearings seem to be very noisy. It's less than one year old, but I use it heavily and it was an inexpensive unit to begin with. I will have to try your idea.
@@gwheyduke mine develpoed a clunk as it rotates last night. Like a pulley is gonna throw a rod any minute but i cant find the source. Im gonna run it till she blows and then fix it with good parts. Motion Industries does a great job of matching up replacement bearings. I read a lot of reviews before I got this one. It seems that no one builds a quality bench top bandsaw anymore. We replace enough pieces and its bound to be awesome eventually 😁
@@gwheyduke I JUST FOUND THE SOURCE OF THE NOISE! Apparently, the belt drive gear on the motor shaft or the driven gear on the bottom pulley is not machined properly. The tooth pattern on the gear doesn't match the belt so it pops as the belt rides up and then pops back into the next groove but, at least its not the bearing!
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Thanks
Why do you use a 35 degree instead of a 45?
I have found, after making hundreds and hundreds of whirligigs over 30 years, that 35 degrees allows the blades to start spinning sooner in lighter winds while still giving plenty of power.
@@gwheyduke Thanks for the reply. When I was a kid my neighbor made whirligigs for a living. Me and my brothers used to help sand the parts and paint them. He paid us by the piece something around 3 cents. All the painting we did was dipped into a pan and hung to dry, letting the paint drip into a trough where it emptied back into another paint can. We never did any of the detail work . He made and sold them until he passed away, probably more than 30 years worth of them.
Anyways I have decided I was going to make a couple for my yard and came across your channel. I found some good info here I forgot about. Thank you.