Barrel bird box

I travel with the RAF every so often and spotted what looked like a pile of scrap wood, dunnage, it’s used to lift metal items off the metal floors of aircraft. Anyway I asked and was told that as long as it was scrap I could help myself, two of the planks were teak, 10” wide 1.5” thick and about 5’ long. I had long since promised to make a bird box for my wife and decided this was an ideal opportunity. The barrel is made from 12 tapered staves of teak with .25” in fills of mahogany to make it more interesting, this was glued up and once I had got myself unstuck from all the glue plugged and turned on my lathe. The roof has bent, laminated rafters, more glue! I set out a plan on a sheet of ply and supported the top plug, that has 8 grooves cut to receive the rafters, at the top of a length of dowel. I drew a circle on the plywood using the dowel as the centre. The eight rafters were fitted into the e slots cut in the top plug and laid out to match 8 radial lined drawn out from the centre dowel, by this means I was able to lift and drop the top plug until the angle of the roof was pleasing to the eye. I had routed a rebate on both sides of the top of the rafters and fitted tapered sections of .25 teak between them to make a roof. Over this I fitted eight sections of tapered copper to form the outside roof, the ends had been folded over to hook over the roof edge and the top pinned to the top plug. an eight sided cap went over the top plug which is held in place by a turned top cap fitted with a screw thread that passes through a hole and tightens up through a captive T nut mounted in a section of wood mounted across the top of the barrel. As you can see I lifted the barrel up on stilts to provide a feeding tray and mounted that on an 8’ pole. Thus far no birds!