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Cat Climbing Structure #10: Climbing/Nesting Modules
Ross Leidy
For the shapes of the climbing modules, I took inspiration from the simple circle-triangle-square shapes that were repeated throughout the 2021 Net...
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Cat Climbing Structure #11: How do you gift-wrap a cat tree?
Ross Leidy
It turns out that two bicycle gift bags will work. Tell me this doesn't look like a giant headless matron in an evening gown. A masterful decepti...
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Cat Climbing Structure #4: Vertical Slats
Ross Leidy
The term "slats" doesn't seem quite right. Standards? Pillars? Our Thanksgiving was shifted to Friday this year, so before all our guest arrived...
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Cat Climbing Structure #9: Completing the Uprights
Ross Leidy
With the sanding out of the way and the threaded couplers epoxied into the feet, the only thing left for the upright components was to apply some f...
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Cat Climbing Structure #2: The Feet (or Paws?)
Ross Leidy
I think one of the most eye-catching details of the Albini bookcase are the tapered blocks that form the feet and mounting points for the 4 vertica...
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Cat Climbing Structure #5: Foot-work
Ross Leidy
Each side of the feet has a dado to accept a spacer that ultimately helps keep the struts equally spaced and parallel with each other. I want the ...
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Cat Climbing Structure #6: Boring Counterboring
Ross Leidy
Each hole in the 8 struts receives a counterbore for the head of a connector bolt/nut. Some counterbores are on the outside face, which are where ...
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Cat Climbing Structure #7: Strut Edge Detail
Ross Leidy
The strut edges receive a thumbnail detail on each long edge. I used a 3/8" radius roundover bit in the router table and adjusted the bit height u...
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Cat Climbing Structure #1: Introduction
Ross Leidy
Our family includes a couple house cats. We also foster kittens for a local shelter to get them socialized prior to adoption. So it's not uncomm...
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Cat Climbing Structure #3: Jig for Evenly Spaced Holes
Ross Leidy
Each upright has four slats, with each having a set of evenly-spaced holes along their entire length. Each hole has a counterbore, some on outer f...
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Cat Climbing Structure #8: Cat Trays
Ross Leidy
I'm still working on ideas for the climbing components, but since this is a Christmas present for my wife and daughter, I need to have something to...
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