Hello and welcome to Cacahouette's channel where we post cute, funny and DIY videos,
all cat themed. We also post videos for cats! Subscribe and hit the bell icon to
be notified as soon as we post new videos. In this video I will show you how
to make a cat scratching post. For this project you will need scissors, a hot
glue gun and glue sticks, an old t-shirt, a drill, 4 three-inch wood screws and a
drill bit, rope (I used about 500 feet) a wooden post (mine is 26 inches tall and
five and a half inches thick) and a square wooden base (mine is an inch and a
half thick and each side measures 11 inches) Place the t-shirt on top of the
base and cut about four inches from the edges all around. Discard the rest of
the material. Place the material on top of the base and straighten it out. Flip the
base and glue one side of the sheet to the bottom. The rest can be folded and
glued like one would fold wrapping paper on a present. When all sides are folded
and glued you may add more glue between the edges of the sheet and the wood in
order to make it sturdier. Glue the edge of a 21-inch string to one of the
corners do the same to the adjacent corner flip the board around and form an
X with the strings. Flip the board back around and glue the ends of the strings
to the bottom of the board at the corners. Take the post and put it
facedown. Take the board and align the lines of
the X to the posts corners. Drill in your 4 screws. You can use 2 screws
instead of 4 and Center them more if you think you might drill out of the
post.
Flip the post to the side and cut off the rope from the bottom. Put it upright
and cut off the rope. Put some glue at the bottom corner of the post and stick
the edge of the rope to it. Once dried, add some glue on the adjacent right
corner. Bring the rope over tightly and make sure to go over the leftover rope
that was cut off earlier as to hide it. Do the same for the other two corners.
When all the corners have been glued, circle tightly around the post with the
rope. If you don't have enough rope to finish the post, simply glue the edge to
the post. Add glue to the top of the rope's end and stick the start of your
new rope on top. Add a bit more glue as you go to make it stronger and continue
circling around the post. Start using the glue again when you get to 1/8 of an
inch from the edge.
From there, spiral in.
Remove any excess glue.
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make a cat bow.