Greg Cole
03-27-2009, 9:16 AM
As advertised, mahogany & tiger maple head and foot board. This project was started long ago & was supposed to have been done by Thanksgiving... hunting season(s) & life seemed to slow my progress to a crawl or stand still. But I promised my wife I'd be done with it before turkey hunting season starts April 20th & I blew that deadline out of the water.;)
I designed these as stand alones (no rails to connect them). I initially had planned on making a traditional slat mattress support style full on bed, but ran short on thick enough mahogany for the side rails. So I flipped a coin and decided to make each a stand alone piece. The footboard serves as a small bench-foot stool, dressing bench kida thing.
All surfaces are prepped with hand tools, same with bevels and raised panels in the headboard. Some of the curly maple gave my LN #4 fits with some tearout, and the newer addition to the arsenal in the LV LA Jack with 50* blade performed wonderfully.
The finish is clear shellac on the maple, garnet shellac on the mahogany & all topcoated with laquer.
I will post pics of the bed installed when I get it "installed" (set in position) tonight. The bed is for the spare room & this is the last piece for that room. I've done all the trim, chair rail, flooring etc in this room & it's now the nicest room in the house for all of about 3-5 guest stays a year.:confused: Ah well.
Comments & constructive criticism welcomed.
I designed these as stand alones (no rails to connect them). I initially had planned on making a traditional slat mattress support style full on bed, but ran short on thick enough mahogany for the side rails. So I flipped a coin and decided to make each a stand alone piece. The footboard serves as a small bench-foot stool, dressing bench kida thing.
All surfaces are prepped with hand tools, same with bevels and raised panels in the headboard. Some of the curly maple gave my LN #4 fits with some tearout, and the newer addition to the arsenal in the LV LA Jack with 50* blade performed wonderfully.
The finish is clear shellac on the maple, garnet shellac on the mahogany & all topcoated with laquer.
I will post pics of the bed installed when I get it "installed" (set in position) tonight. The bed is for the spare room & this is the last piece for that room. I've done all the trim, chair rail, flooring etc in this room & it's now the nicest room in the house for all of about 3-5 guest stays a year.:confused: Ah well.
Comments & constructive criticism welcomed.