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  1. The red oak bedroom suit

    I thought that I would take this opportunity to show some pictures of some furniture projects that I have done over the years. I decided to post an essay of pictures surrounding the bedroom suit that I built a number of years ago. Constructed of red oak, which is I guess my favorite medium in wood, the entire set took maybe a year and a half to complete….maybe two years in total, I forget really. The first picture here represents the first and last piece of the set. I started with the hutch ...
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  2. Brianna's bed Pt.8

    With the footboard mounted back onto the base assembly, and the two drawers in place, I used blue painters tape to help in locating the position of the two false drawer fronts. Once the locations were mapped out, double stick tape was used to temporarily stick the fronts to the footboard and then I could drill all holes that were needed to mount the drawers



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  3. Brianna's bed Pt.7

    The Leigh D4 dovetail jig has proven to be one of the best additions to my shop. It isn’t used very often, but when it is used, it comes through with flying colors. Here are a few pics detailing the process and its two wanted results – pins and tails.





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  4. Brianna's bed Pt.6

    With the help of these three bits, I cut a dado in the back, rounded the two top edges and cut a nice profile into the bottom face of the arc and it was ready to mount to the headboard.





    By now, I had had my carpal tunnel surgery on my left wrist, so I was a bit hampered ...
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  5. Brianna's bed Pt.5

    Can you even see the applied veneer piece on the edge here?



    Just below the bottom shelve in the headboard, I needed to add this structural element. It would serve to raise the shelf to a height that would keep my nieces head and her pillows below the shelf level so that she wouldn’t disturb anything on them while she slept. I added some more of those corner brackets under/inside ...
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