I bought a couple of those cat scratchers from Wal Mart. I bought the small one first to see if my cats would even like it. They loved it. So I eventually bought the larger one. I didn't really care for the way they looked just sitting on the floor. So I decided to make some holders for them using some of my pieces of Santos Mahogany that I had left over from building my own kitchen countertops. I also used this same wood on the crow's nest of the cat tree I built. That can be seen here....
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I put some rubber feet on the bottom of them to keep the wood from scratching the floor. This wood is very dense and very heavy. Instead of putting polyurethane on it, I just put on 2 coats on Johnson's paste wax and buffed it. I decided to use Ansel as my model for this photo shoot. Sorry some of the pics are blurry...he wouldn't keep still with the catnip sprinkled on it. I think this looks much better sitting on the floor than just a cardboard box. What do ya'll think?!
http://thecatsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110734
I put some rubber feet on the bottom of them to keep the wood from scratching the floor. This wood is very dense and very heavy. Instead of putting polyurethane on it, I just put on 2 coats on Johnson's paste wax and buffed it. I decided to use Ansel as my model for this photo shoot. Sorry some of the pics are blurry...he wouldn't keep still with the catnip sprinkled on it. I think this looks much better sitting on the floor than just a cardboard box. What do ya'll think?!