megalomaniac toy revisited

[jimpierce7]

well, for those of you that may not remember, after Sophie broke her beak earlier this year I made her a monster toy. She loves to climb up threw toys like this as well as shred them. A quick reminder..................




then came all the hoopla about toys made in China. I got the wood from toys at Walmart. Some where safe dies. Some were paint. I was assured all was safe when I inquired. Well I have never been fully comfortable with that. Today at work I was messing around and gathered up some scrap lumber and started cutting and drilling. When I was done I came up with this...................



thats after the GSE/hot water soak n rinse. As my lovely wife was at work this evening I went to work. Tearing down the the lines pulling off the painted blocks then replacing/adding the new blocks. A couple design changes here and there, I may even add more rope later.

And now for 60 inches of the Megalomaniac toy that Macs can envy and Sophie will destroy!!!

Megalomaniac II

[sparkysmom]

That is awesome Jim. Looks like fun waiting to happen! I need to push myself to be more resourceful like you. Nice work.

[Grillis]

I have to do this for my birds! Looks like much fun

[bird2birds]

nice, but what kind of wood did you use? some is toxic. is the leather vegatable tanned, I'm sure you know that chemical tanned is poisonous.

[jimpierce7]

None of the wood is toxic, mostly pine, and yes the leather is all veggi tanned.