An Affordable DIY Pet Bunny Hutch that Everyone can Build! - Home Wood Working Projects Part #1

[Music] good morning fellow woodworkers welcome back to another video today i'm going to show you how to build this pet bunny cage for yourself the dimensions are totally variable i'm going to present to you the plants that i came up with in fusion 360 a while ago at least part of the plant i'm going to explain everything to you step by step such that you can build one for yourself if you're interested in a model like this it has stores that you can open up the size is completely variable because we are not using stuff like um screws or bolts or the like all of this has just been created with very basic joinery i'm still a woodworking beginner so i'm still trying around with everything so building this thing is also basically beginner difficulty so with a few simple tools you can build yourself something like this too and i hope you are going to enjoy the video as always please don't forget to subscribe to the channel if you want to see more diy videos and woodworking tips and now we are going to dive right in while building the bunny's home i decided to stray away from my original plants and provide them with a second floor too which is going to come up here but the original ideas were still being used even though the plans are not accurate anymore both the first and the second floor need an identical wooden frame which you can see here which will later be covered in planks at least for the first floor completely and for the second floor we are going to use a partial covering with planks the outer dimensions for the frames are used to 150 centimeters by 40 centimeters so to get started we need four 40 centimeter and four 150 centimeter wooden planks i'm using spruce wood for the build by the way so as easy as that i marked down the lengths i needed and use my miter saw to cut them to their respective sizes by the way the link to all the tools that i'm using during the creation of the cage can be found down there in the description so if you're interested in any of these definitely make sure to check these out as mentioned at the start of the video we'll be using only simple joinery to fix everything in place the frames i built only require a simple 45 degree joint as you can see right here in my plant which we'll glue together later so once again i use my trusty miter saw gosh i love that thing it's such a useful tool to cut out the 45 degree angles right at the ends of each and every plank [Applause] and before i went on to the next steps i made sure that all of the planks were still cut to the same length taking too much off with the miter saw could easily result in joints that are not connected properly so make sure to always keep that little point in mind now next comes the most interesting part about the build as mentioned at the start of the video we are not going to use any kind of screws or nails or whatsoever to hold the whole structure together so how would you install the floor planks which are going to come into each and every floor very easily but using a pretty ingenious method if you ask me so for the floor panels we are going to make use of so-called profiled wood it has nice property that is very easy connectable you can connect it using the built-in groove together with the tank that we are going to get here now connecting these is pretty easy but how are you going to connect the floor panels to the frame that we are going to build well i answered that for you namely using my router table we are going to make use of the router to put inside of the frame in our groove and this groove is going to be so my profiled wood has a thickness of 12.5 millimeters and accidentally incidentally i had a 13 millimeters bit lying around for my router and then we can just put a groove inside of our frame parts and then we can put our profiled wood into here and it's going to be very stable overall it's going to work like a charm we are going to route two short and to long planks for now which make up the first floor but for the second floor we need to be a bit more careful though taking a look at the first plants that i created the second floor is going to go up here now for the second floor we also needed a frame such like for the first floor but here's the big difference the second floor will only go into this part right here just half of the cage is going to be covered with a second floor meaning what we are going to do is we are only going to put a groove right into one half of the frame that we got right here and then we are going to cut ourselves another plank which is going to go inside of the groove too this other blank that we are going to cut is also going to have a groove in there such that we can fit all the planks into the second floor too meaning this little middle plank that we need to put in here needs to have a length of 33 centimeters plus a few centimeters which are going to go into the groove which are going to cut with the router into here after getting myself the middle plank of length 35 centimeters i went on and placed it right in the middle of the second floor frame that i laid out on the floor after marking down the position of the middle bar or my two longer frame planks i went ahead and once again cut groves into them just like on the first floor i now proceeded to mark down the parts that i need to cut off from the middle bar in order for me to get a tongue please note that from the 33 centimeters i put two additional centimeters onto the middle bar meaning we got one centimeter of depth for the tongue and after that i went ahead and used the hand saw to get the job finally done after making sure that the tongue fit perfectly i went ahead and cut the final grove into the middle bar and then i looked if it would fit into the upper frame now we are finally at the point where we can go ahead and get started with cutting out the floor panels now here we need to be a bit careful just like with the middle bar we need a length of 33 centimeters being covered on the inside of the frame but since we have a growth going on on both sides we need an additional really depends on the depth of your growth in my case one centimeters on each and every side such that they can fit into here meaning we need a lot of panels which are going to cover all of this floor and half of the upper floor with a length of 35 centimeters each cutting all of them to size went down really smoothly using the miter saws always and after that i was taking a look at if all the ones that i cut out were actually enough to fill up the whole floors i noticed that on both floors i still needed one more which wasn't a full one so i had to cut two more out using the miter saw and then i had to reduce their basically base size so from the 12 centimeters that they originally had to like six centimeters or something really depends on your build though and oh boy i tell you that is stable as really doesn't need any glue whatsoever at this point i mean yeah for the 45 degree joints obviously but other than that the grooves in the tanks just absolutely perfectly work together before i could go home to glue everything up i still wanted to cut out the six legs i needed to size as you can see in fusion we need four with a length of 98 centimeters and 2 with a length of 60 centimeters each once that was done i went back home and started putting all floor panels and frame parts together and used glue on the 45 degree corner joints and let me tell you something putting everything in place was awful as but i managed to get it done anyways i had everything together using the spray and frame tensioner by wolfcroft and some clamps such a useful tool everyone should have one of these lying around in their workshops somewhere makes your life so much damn easier and this concludes day one as well as part one of building the bunny cage which is stupid japanese postal god damn it i hope you did enjoy what you have seen thus far this has been my first longer building diy video here on this channel with first bigger project and i hope you did enjoy the basically video format i came up with it differs wildly from the stuff i do over on flammable maps because i'm first and foremost i'm the best youtuber actually um but yeah i still enjoy doing woodworking and i hope you are going to stick to the channel for next time once the next part is out for the video you can find the link down there in the description as well as other relevant links like the tools i've been using during the creation of the video video equipment etc or maybe details i forgot while editing the video and i would like to add some new stuff um afterwards but other than that if you enjoyed this video definitely make sure to support the channel by well going over to my patreon page to become patreon supporter or maybe check out stamina.u my shop where i sell handcrafted wood products and the like and yeah what else can i say please subscribe to the channel recommend the channel and up to the next video i wish you guys a flammable day please stay safe ciao [Music] ah [Music]