MYO Toys

[yellowralph]

Hi All,

Im going to go on a toy making escapade:

I have just purchased http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... s&n=507846
Along with three other books (I can post reviews if you guys want). And a fairly tall parrot stand from ebay.

I will outfit the stand and ebay with custom perches made from BottleBrush (my neighbor is a landscape gardener and he will provide me with pretty much as many clippings as I can use). I will post pictures and how tos by this weekend and the before and after pictures.

Hopefully it will look OK and be fun for the bird.

Cheers
R

[Melika]

Looks like a great book. Do, please, let us know how good it is. ^_^

I've read some very good things about bottlebrush. Sadly, as a Landscaper myself, I haven't run across any of the trees on any of my jobs, lol. Let me know how Clamps takes to it. I'm interested in getting hold of some. ^_^

[yellowralph]

Looks like a great book. Do, please, let us know how good it is. ^_^

I've read some very good things about bottlebrush. Sadly, as a Landscaper myself, I haven't run across any of the trees on any of my jobs, lol. Let me know how Clamps takes to it. I'm interested in getting hold of some. ^_^

Whoops forgot to mention Im in Australia. This is probably why I can get bottlebrush more readily than yourself.

Have started on the book and three others, the ideas revolve mostly around PVC perches and what not, I think I will use bottlebrush rather than PVC I will post a full review Saturday sometime (Aus time)

Cheers
R

[Melika]

They do grow it here in Florida but it's not as common. Especially with all the hurricanes, the branches aren't strong and many were torn apart from the storms.

But I can make bamboo perches/stands galore, we grow it ourselves.

[yellowralph]

Hey All,

Received a large bunch of BB from my neighbor, the original bunch looked like this:



After much cutting this is what i ended up with:





Now the clean up


I will mount these as soon as they dry and obviously cut them some more.

Cheers
R

[yellowralph]

Here is the stand after the branches have been mounted onto it:



Now for the cage