How to Make a Fruit Bird Feeder

 This fruit bird feeder can help attract a variety of birds to your garden. Robins and chickadees as well as bluebirds, cardinals, woodpeckers, and orioles love fruit. The brass skewer makes it easy to change your fruit offering. Oranges, plums, and crabapples are all options.

Supplies and Equipment Used to Make the Fruit Bird Feeder 

• 6" x 6" x ¾" piece of wood
• 6½" brass rod
• Screw eye
• Pattern for Octagonal Fruit Bird Feeder 
• Proxxon Table Saw FET
• Proxxon Bandsaw MBS/E
• Proxxon Disc Sander TSG 250/E
• Proxxon Scroll Saw DS 460
• Proxxon Bench Drill Press TBM 115
• Proxxon Micro Press MP 120
• Proxxon Delta Sander OZI/E

Instructions for Making the Fruit Bird Feeder

1. Trace the exterior lines of the fruit bird feeder pattern onto your piece of wood. Cut the exterior angles with either the table saw or band saw.
2. Sand the edges on the disc sander.
   
   
   
3. Trace the interior lines on your wood.
   
   
   
4. Using the bench drill press, drill a pilot hole for the scroll saw blade.
   
   
   
5. Cut out the interior of the feeder on the scroll saw.
   
   
   
6. Using the bench drill press, drill the holes for the rod.
   
   
   
7. Sand the surfaces with the Delta sander.
   
   
   
8. Bend a 90­­° angle on the end of the brass rod.
   
   
   
9. Coat with polyurethane to protect the feeder from the weather.
   
   
   
10. Add a screw eye or hook for hanging.
11. Sit back and enjoy watching the birds that come to your fruit feeder.
    

Carole