Yipee! I get to deliver this tomorrow!

[Jason Ochoada]

Well, I finally have finished my latest project. It's for a customer who's son owns and reads many books. He told me he wanted a bookshelf bed with lots of storage. So this is what I came up with. It has three drawers (full width) that can slide through either way, all sides are finished so it could sit in the middle of a room and look good. He spec'd hard maple for everything and that's what he got.

Thanks
Jason

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Beautiful work Jason! How do those drawers operate? Are they on slides?

[Jason Ochoada]

Thanks Ken,

The drawers are on wooden slides and suspended from the box spring support slats. Instead of a traditional slat I made kind of an "I" beam which the drawers ride on. It's the first version and as you can tell the space between drawers is fairly large about 2 inches. The order will have the same system but I need to work out the system to bring the drawers closer. Here is a picture head on of the system. I later stained the runners and the I beams to make them less visible.

[Boyd Gathwright]

Welcome aboard Jason,

.... Very nice work. The design is very economically minded. Nice choice of wood and well done ;).

.... It's a good thing you added pics to your post cause I am sure the pic police are in hot per suite :eek: :D.


Boyd
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Well, I finally have finished my latest project. It's for a customer who's son owns and reads many books. He told me he wanted a bookshelf bed with lots of storage. So this is what I came up with. It has three drawers (full width) that can slide through either way, all sides are finished so it could sit in the middle of a room and look good. He spec'd hard maple for everything and that's what he got.

Thanks
Jason

[Jim Becker]

Wonderful work and design, Jason!

[Corey Hallagan]

Beautiful work Jason, that looks great!

Corey

[Dan Forman]

Jason, that is fabulous!!! I need to make something along that line, esp like the drawer idea.

[John Renzetti]

hi Jason, Very nice design and work. This bed will probably get a lot of rough use. What finish did you use and what process did you use to get the nice even color in the maple.
take care,
John

[Jason Ochoada]

Thanks for the comments guys, it's very much appreciated.

The finish was a mix of transtint honey maple and mahogony brown applied by spraying. I started hand applying but there was a lot of cool grain but the pieces tended to absorb unevenly so I sprayed the dye on. Then came a coat of dewaxed ultra pale shellac which was sprayed also. smoothed with 400 and then topcoated with 4 coats Target coatings Ultima Spray Laq.

Thanks
Jason