How to Make a 3D Wooden Bird Mobile

This is a great project to use Proxxon's special bandsaw scroll blade. This blade makes cutting tight corners with the bandsaw a breeze.

Supplies and Equipment

• 4" x 6" piece of 1/8" hardwood
• Pattern for 3D bird mobile
• Proxxon MICRO Bandsaw MBS/E
• Proxxon Bandsaw Scroll Saw Blade
• Proxxon Delta Sander OZI/E
• Wood finishing polish
• Fish line

Instructions

1. Install the bandsaw scroll saw blade. Here you can see a comparison of blades.
   
2. Print the bird mobile pattern, and mount on the wood blank. Cover one side of the blank with painter's tape. Mist the back side of the pattern with spray adhesive, and mount on the taped blank. The painter's tape made removal of the pattern easy without leaving any sticky residue.
   
3. Cut the shapes on the the bandsaw.
   
4. Sand surfaces and edges with the Delta sander.
   
5. Buff the finished pieces with wood oil or paste wax.
   
6. Before sliding the two pieces together, add a length of fish line for hanging.
   

I think if would be interesting to make a flock of these birds, each in a different wood!!

Note: If you resize this pattern, be certain that the notch on the body and on the wings is as wide as the wood is thick.

Carole