ACCENT MIRROR

I’ve been making mirrors with attached shelves for years. Recently, I started adding small objects to those shelves, including stone cairns, turned vases, and carved birds such as the one you see here. Adding these little “extras” has made the mirrors sell better, and they’re more fun to build.

The frame and shelf are quite simple to construct. A couple of dado cuts, a few dowels, and some screws hold things in place. The real effort comes in carving/whittling the bird. The bird isn’t meant to be a specific species, but more of an