Finally done

[martyphee]

All walnut. Headboard, footboard panels and capitals are air dried walnut. The air dried walnut is probably 50 years old. Finish is based on Jeff J's in FWW a few months back. The panels are finished with witch's brew using varnish instead of poly. The rest is Golden Brown transtint, shellac, home made glaze and gel varnish since it was your usual kiln dried grayish walnut. I didn't want them to match anyways. Needed some contrast.
First real project for my mortise. Used it for the 5/16 rail mortises and the 3/4" (with a 3/4" chisel) strecher mortises.


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[Bruce Page]

Very nice, the finish turned out beautifully, I like the contrast between the air dried/kiln dried walnut.
Your son looks like a very happy young man!!

[Jim O'Dell]

Man, that is some beautiful walnut!!! Nice job on the bed too. I see the little one gives his stamp of approval! Jim.

[Jim Becker]

Certainly looks like the "new owner" likes that bed! Nice job, Marty!

[Howard Barlow]

Great job, Marty. Looks like the king is comfy in his chambers.

[martyphee]

That walnut was one of a kind. Flich sawn black walnut, which the guy had for ever. He was in his nineties when he sold it. The head board panel is one piece 43" x 14 1/2" x 1". The footboard panels was actually one piece, but wasn't wide enough so I just it in half and put the center stile in. You can see how the grain continues from one piece to the other.

I just wish I had bought all of the would he had.

[lou sansone]

looks great. I really cant tell the difference between the two types of walnut, but maybe my monitor is not that good. nice design and I am sure a lot more solid than the stuff you buy in the stores.

BTW have you posted info on the green morticer ?

lou

[Vaughn McMillan]

Real nice job, Marty. Great-looking wood, and I like the action shots too. That set will probably be around for the little guy's kids, when that time comes.

- Vaughn

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

Beautiful job, but the BEST picture is the LAST ONE!

Precious!

Bruce

[martyphee]

I don't think so here.

Here is a short shot I made a when I first used it after the restore. It's in two different formats depending on your computer.

http://jump-technologies.com/owwm/mortiser/mortiser.mp4
http://jump-technologies.com/owwm/mortiser/mortiser.mov

Greenlee 227 Auto mortiser.
1956 sold to Fridgeair
5hp 3450 main motor with a 1hp motor to drive the feed.

It had be abused throughout it's life. Big crack on the one side. I had it brazed and then I expoxied the inside with expanded metal to give it even more strength. The arm attached to the motor had been broken in a bunch of piece and brazed together. I had to make a new adjuster arm for the feed motor adjustment. It uses a reeves pulley on the fee motor to adjust the strokes/minute.

The big kicker is that it's 440volts only!

[Shelley Bolster]

Fantastic Job, Marty! Most definitely an heirloom for your son to pass down! I am certain the gentleman you bought it from is smiling - you have done that walnut proud. :)

[Dick Parr]

That is a really nice looking bed. You did a great job on it and the wood is beautiful.

[tod evans]

nice job marty, looks like your munchkin is on cloud nine.

[Richard Wolf]

Nice job. Boy, I really like when people work knots into a project, I think it really adds alot of character. It reminds us that it comes from a tree.

Richard

[Jim W. White]

Absolutely beautiful! .. bet you scored some points with your wife on that one as well....


...yes, you should have bought all he had, the wood is awesome!

[Travis Porter]

Very impressive.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Marty.....I hope you've signed and dated that! Several generations from now they'll want to know that Great Great Grandpa Marty made that! Absolutely gorgeous!

[Bob Noles]

What a nice job Marty.... That boy is going to enjoy that bed and will most likely want to pass it down a generation or 4 :)

You do good work and thanks for sharing.

[Bill Simmeth]

Marty -- great job! I assume the Greenlee earned its keep on the mortises for the bed?

Your son seems to love his new nest. Good for you.

[Dan Forman]

Lovely bed, cute kid, that last pic is priceless. Looks like there's lots of room for him (for now).

Dan

[Bob Oehler]

Realy nice bed. I love the walnut. I have many bdft of it in my shop air dried around 10 years old. Not near the 50 like you have and not nearly as wide. Your little one will grow to love that be not only for it's beuty but for the love that made it.

Take care
Bob Oehler

[Tom Hamilton]

Beautiful piece. What a fortunate child to have a lifetime piece of furniture made by his father. Not a common occurance in this century.

Congrats on a great job.

Tom

[martyphee]

Marty -- great job! I assume the Greenlee earned its keep on the mortises for the bed?

Your son seems to love his new nest. Good for you.

Being able to punch 3/4 x 1 1/2" mortises in one stroke made the job go pretty fast for the strechers. I really wish I had it when I did the crib. I think that was something like 56 mortises and the Jet bench top wasn't up to the task. The jet is like 65#'s and the Greenlee is 1500+.

[martyphee]

I missed some details of the bed. It was made from all laminated 4/4 lumber that I picked up on new years eve last year in WI. My friend was buying 5000bf for trim in his house, so I tagged along and got the lumber at 1/2 anywhere else. We didn't have a design, so I just went with 100bf of 4/4. Really should have been all 6/4 and 8/4. The legs were made the craftsmen style with 4 boards joined with lock joints and a center section inserted. We like craftsmen style furniture so that's were the bulk comes from. Actually the insperation comes from Pottery Barn. I like their designs, but their quality sucks.

First project for my PM 26 (5hp shaper) also. Made special fence for the lock miter bit and the raised panel bit. It's nice to be able to raise a panel in one pass. Though a little scary the first time you try it. It's amazing how much air is moved just by that cutter alone.