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Built My First Cabinet

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Well I'm not a handy man by any stretch of the imagination, but I want to build my own cabinets and stuff so bringing X home was the perfect opportunity. I had some spare cage fronts that I got a while ago so I popped down to bunnings and went shopping... its not a DAZ masterpeice but it is something...

 

Dimensions are 1200 X 600 X 450

 

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I tried making a little perch thing-a-me-jig too...

 

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Excellent job! Do you plan to breed them in it?

That looks really great!! Wish I had the time for stuff like that :hooray:

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Excellent job! Do you plan to breed them in it?

 

I won't be breeding in that one. It will probably end up being a juvi cell, or quarantine cage in the long run... At this stage I'm not sure what dimensions my breeding cabinets will be as I haven't been able to source a local cage fronts supplier/manufacturer that have any that I like...

 

Thanks everyone it is a modest begining but now that my wife has seen it she's desided that she wants me to build some chests for the kids toys and stuff lol...

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Excellent job Jimmy! :hooray: I can see why your wife wants to capitalise on you new-found carpentry skills :hooray:

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thanks everyone. :offtopic:

 

What cage fronts does everyone use for breeding cabinets (I would prefer to attach the box to the outside of cage front)?? And where do you get them from?

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thanks everyone. :wacko:

 

What cage fronts does everyone use for breeding cabinets (I would prefer to attach the box to the outside of cage front)?? And where do you get them from?

Some are available with a hinged door, or you just cut some bars to allow access and use hooks to hang the box :)

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I'd prefer a hinged door if I could find one... I don't really want to cut the fronts if I don't have too. that was if I decide at a later date to use it as a holding cage I can...

Well I'm not a handy man by any stretch of the imagination, but I want to build my own cabinets and stuff so bringing X home was the perfect opportunity. I had some spare cage fronts that I got a while ago so I popped down to bunnings and went shopping... its not a DAZ masterpeice but it is something...

 

Dimensions are 1200 X 600 X 450

 

cage002.jpg

 

When you do prototype number two, try a divider in the centre, that removes.

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thought the same thing after I'd put it together :wacko: That would just top it off. :) I knew I'd have that problem because my cage fronts are 600 wide and the back was 1200 so that didn't leave a split to do it unfortunately...

 

I've already started thinking of different ways to improve them for next time... can anyone tell me what is the most resistant wood type to mites and the like?

thought the same thing after I'd put it together :wacko: That would just top it off. :) I knew I'd have that problem because my cage fronts are 600 wide and the back was 1200 so that didn't leave a split to do it unfortunately...

 

I've already started thinking of different ways to improve them for next time... can anyone tell me what is the most resistant wood type to mites and the like?

The split is arrived at by cutting one vertical bar off the side of each cage......womens logic....besides I have done them this way too :hap:

 

 

PS NO wood is resistant to mites...they also enjoy plastic and glass.

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Ahhh!!! you are clever!!! Think outside the square James, think outside the square!

 

really mites like plastic too?

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JB - try the buybudgies website for cage fronts, i have the type with a drop down door, best invention going. Great website for other products as well and cheaper than others.

 

www.buybudgies.com

Jimmy when you get the price from Buy Budgies and get off the floor PM me I I'll sell you one for $15 - $20 plus postage. :wacko:

 

You just tell me what size you want and I'll arrange it as close as possible. :)

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D'oh.. He get's them from the same source as me.... Does that account for postage?

Plus postage - I got mine from the same source and they are an excellent front.

He does a great job. Does all of my work. Heath did you just get an order in the last two weeks? I was there a few weeks ago geting some more fronts and he was packaging up a job for down south

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