American Kestrel nest box

Step 7 Trimming the top piece

Now it is time to trim the top pieces. Since the top needs to have a slope to shed rain, the back edge of the top piece needs cut at an angle. In this shop I had a saw that was easy to adjust to cut at an angle, and I experimented a bit to figure out what this angle was. Since these are fairly small pieces, I used this special tool to push the work along rather than risk my fingers.