G builds a Vacation home for Bunnies

Every so often G's Wood Shop has a furry visitor named Bun Bun.  The bunny likes to travel light and recently showed up with just his "pooper" and a new water bottle.

A prototype vacation home was quickly assembled using scrap from around the shop to accommodate the marble making machine for the weekend.

Bun Bun took it upon himself give his new condo some curves so this was incorporated into the design.

Softwood apparently isn't particularly good for bunnies due to the resins so a quick trip to Home Depot for a 6' maple board provided materials for the project.  Home depot had a lot of Oak in the maple stack, they should look into that.  There were only 2 actual maple boards on the rack at a 6' length and although beat up the one I took had some figure to it so I wasn't entirely unhappy.  It also came with free cupping, scuffs and a few smears of paint.  That's what I get for being too lazy to drive over to Exotic Wood in Burlington.  I'll have to spend some extra time sanding so Bun Bun doesn't complain.

The "pooper" is a quarter circle shape and during the night it got pushed around the room a lot.  The final design will hold the litter box in place with walls on two sides and a couple of dowel posts on the front edge.

Three pieces of the 6" wide maple were glued together to form the floor.

While the glue dried a template was cut out to help with the sizing and shape of the floor.  This 1/4" ply doesn't sand too well so I won't use the router and a template bit to cut the floor.  Instead I will cut the floor out on the bandsaw and sand it curve smooth.

To draw the curve I placed the piece of plywood on the work bench and clamped a wood screw into the vice.  I then put the hole that's used to hang my ruler over the screw, held a sharpie at 18.5 inches and traced a curve.  The curve radius is 18.5" but the length of each side is more like 13 1/2".

Rabbits (intentional bad pun) were cut into two side walls. 

The post supporting the water bottle is going to be carrot shaped.  Bun Bun's house keeper gets credit for drawing the carrot.

Clamping 2 sides to a circle presents a challenge!  The trick was to use the ratcheting strap around the sides which wanted to pull the angle out of square.  The clamp that goes from the corner to the curved edge forces the corner back to 90 degrees.

I got distracted and missed cleaning up the glue squeeze out after 20 minutes so I've created even more sanding for myself.