Jan
Stainless Bird Toys @ Blu's Bird Toys
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I posted on my BLOG about this so please read it but I will say a little about it here ... back a year or two ago I was going to discontinue the Jolly Balls but didn't, this time I am for sure when I run out of stock. Come May 1st for what remaining Jolly Balls I will have on hand will not be offered with hardware/toy options, you'll only be able to buy the ball. I'll highly likely keep on making the toys for the Jolly Balls separately.
The manufacture could give two sh*ts about the bird industry because there are simply not enough sales for them on it. As it is now lately, the 10" ball has a thicker wall than it use to so my pear quick links don't open up quite large enough for the thickness of the ball. If I go to a larger quick link then it won't fit onto the chain. The 14" balls I have to cut out all five of the 5" holes on each ball, this is something that I use to not have to do, the manufacture did it. At this point in time, you won't find really anybody out there with 14" balls with the holes in them. So this seems unique for me to do but I don't want to carry on this task any longer nor do I want to have to pay someone to do it.
In my shop I think I have 6-8 of the 14" balls now, none with holes in them yet, once I get some cut open then I will put them back in stock. I need to take a day and mark out holes and cut them all out. The 6", 8" & 10" balls I do not have to cut holes, they are done by the manufacture.
The other products are my Grape Wood Gyms and Swing ... way too much problems in trying to get the right shape of grape wood. Being that grape wood is a one of a kind shaped wood, it varies so much and is such a challenge to get it to work out with it being balanced. Soon, I'll just be taking images of each one and put on the site on the decent grape wood. Some grape wood is hollowed out and just seems to be crappy and there is not good solid wood and way too many huge cracks so it just makes it hard to do anything with them.
The manufacture could give two sh*ts about the bird industry because there are simply not enough sales for them on it. As it is now lately, the 10" ball has a thicker wall than it use to so my pear quick links don't open up quite large enough for the thickness of the ball. If I go to a larger quick link then it won't fit onto the chain. The 14" balls I have to cut out all five of the 5" holes on each ball, this is something that I use to not have to do, the manufacture did it. At this point in time, you won't find really anybody out there with 14" balls with the holes in them. So this seems unique for me to do but I don't want to carry on this task any longer nor do I want to have to pay someone to do it.
In my shop I think I have 6-8 of the 14" balls now, none with holes in them yet, once I get some cut open then I will put them back in stock. I need to take a day and mark out holes and cut them all out. The 6", 8" & 10" balls I do not have to cut holes, they are done by the manufacture.
The other products are my Grape Wood Gyms and Swing ... way too much problems in trying to get the right shape of grape wood. Being that grape wood is a one of a kind shaped wood, it varies so much and is such a challenge to get it to work out with it being balanced. Soon, I'll just be taking images of each one and put on the site on the decent grape wood. Some grape wood is hollowed out and just seems to be crappy and there is not good solid wood and way too many huge cracks so it just makes it hard to do anything with them.
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