I started this about 2 years ago, was supposed to be a wedding gift for my wife. Well married Nov 5th 2005, finished last week, put up last night.
what can I say? I procrastinate… Next up, started tonight, 2 night stands… I figure the whole bedroom set ought to be finished by 2039….
I’m a moderately better wood worker then I am a camera man, so go easy.
Natural light, taller ceilings, and more functional spaces transform this midcentuary-modern home.
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Looks very nice.
don't break anything breaking it in.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
you have no idea how much I fear the whole thing falling apart one night and us ending up in a naked pile of twisted broken toothpics..
"you have no idea how much I fear the whole thing falling apart one night and us ending up in a naked pile of twisted broken toothpics.."
Did you mean:
"you have no idea how much I fear the whole thing falling apart one night and us ending up naked in a pile of twisted broken toothpics.."
???????
nice...
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Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Very nice.
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Whale Oil Beef Hooked.
Nice.
Think there woulda been an incentive to get it done sooner, though ;)
You have my admiration. A good woodworker and a good manager. DanT
Thanks Dan, but I have a lot to learn in both areas
Neil, looks great! What kind of finish do you use? Did you prefinish the spindles prior to assembly, to make finishing easier?
I made my wife a bed (cherry pencil-post) and it's her favorite piece of furniture. Your wife will love it for a long time.
Great job.
"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." Invictus, by Henley.
The finish was a multi-step process I read about somewhere and can't remember where.
No I was not smart enough to pre-finish the spindles prior to assembly, and believe me, I asked myself why I didn't a couple hundred times during the staining & finishing.
The stain is a base coat of Early American stain, two coats of 2lb amber shellac, then a wipe down with an Ebony Gel-Stain to darken the grain & pours. After that all cured I ended up with a Post-Catalyzed Conversion Varnish I sprayed through an airless. The sheen was called "Hand Rubbed Dull" or something similiar to that, the product was recommended by one of the paint stores here that sells to cab shops and furniture makers..
I originally planned on an wipe on tung oil finish, which I think would have looked a tad better and I could have rubbed it out to a smoother finish, BUT I lost my desire to do that when I thought about rubbing on ~6 coats.
Real cool.
Wheres the handcuffs?
New BT rule..all bed phtos need female models, like the bed commercials on TV.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"If you want something you've never had, do something you've never done"
With a bed that nice, most BT'ers wouldn't notice the model. {G}Troy Sprout
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should also have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." -- George Washington
Thanks Sphere, care to explain the difference of Qtr Sawn & Rift Sawn. I know "How" wood is Qtr Sawn vs Flat Sawn, no idea what rift sawn is though...
disertation time....
getting typing.
Thanks
Simple . True quartered is the rings being 90 degrees to the face of the board, give or take a smidge.
Rift is more like when the rings may be say, 45 degrees or so to the face. In the real world of sawing, looking at the end of a log, east -west and North south are the cross , those are true. Points for rift sawn would be NE, SE, SW, and NW...
Clear as mud?
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"If you want something you've never had, do something you've never done"
Edited 9/1/2007 10:40 am ET by Sphere
Nice.
I'm not showing my wife those pics. I've been promising her a bed like that for nearly 30 years.
I've even had the wood for over 10 years
If you build the bed, she might help you get rid of the wood. ;)Remodeling Contractor just on the other side of the Glass City
Lmao,
I'll spare you the details, but I was told if she had to wait 2 years for the bed, I can wait a little too.....
anyway, thanks for all the nice comments all
It really wasn't all that bad to make, nothing but square pieces and a bunch of mortise and tenons., the actually assembly wasn't bad at all. The hardest part was getting the 33 spindles to line up top while attaching the top and bottom rails, I swore a lot that day and a mallet went through some drywall. The finishing, all I can say is, sub-it-out.
The pictures don't really show how pretty the wood is. I thought it was all Qtr Sawn, but was told yesterday by someone with far more knowledge it's a combination of Qtr & Rift sawn.
The plans for the bed came from a book called Beds, by Jeff Miller, It's the bed on the cover with a few minor modifications.
I've got the plans for it.
I made a matching futon bed a few years ago.
But I'm tired of living in an unfinished house, so I've been concentrating on that.
And, yeah, I've thought about subbing out the finishing. I hate that part.
Too much like painting.
"I've even had the wood for over 10 years"
WOW! You drop a gift like that on everyones lap and they don't even notice it. Look if you've had "The wood" That long and haven't done anything about it. You need some Asian help. Or you need a different set of priorities. LOL
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Edited 9/1/2007 2:12 pm ET by Gunner
A slow pitch...
I figgered I was setting myself up.
And I'm surprised how long it took for the swing
Slow day I guess.
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Worth the wait, very nicely done...buic
Nice work.
Weird, we got married 11-05-04.
Nice work! That's worth bunches of thank yous! Have fun!My brain + his brawn = a perfect team
a wedding gift, a bed, two years, a woman, you not right
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Haga su trabajo de fricken
Nicely done Neil. Being a framer I'd have gone with SPF or something purdy like that though. ;)
It always amazes me.... how much nicer my bed got once I was married. I never thought much about my bed when I was single. Just a place to crash. Maybe throw the sheets in the laundry once in awhile.... use the same pillows for years. Never make the damm thing, etc. But once you get married all the sudden the bed starts looking like a museum piece or something. I always thought beds only looked like that in department stores. But now I sleep in a bed that's got all the options. It's like the F-350 King Ranch of beds. It's got pillows for sleeping with, pillows for making it look nice, a pad on top of the mattress, sheets, blankets, a comforter, heat, lacy stuff hanging off of it, and even smells nice. I had no idea what I was missing.
LOL... anyway... that's my editorial for the day.
Just wait til you've been married a while.
All that frilly stuff disappears a bit at a time.
naw - it can get worse. Seems like there is another pillow every year. If I go the bed first, it takes a long time to move all the darn things so there is room for me!;)
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Especially in winter, my wife likes sleeping with this full length body pillow.
There's barely room for the 3 of us.
Luckily, I generate more heat than the pillow, or I'd be sleeping on the floor.
at least you get some space on the bed, My wife and my dog seem to think once I fall asleep they can contort me into any possibly position so long as they're comfortable.
I've woken up laying diagnol across the bed with the wife on one side sprawled out and the dog sleeping on MY pillow.... Then he acts all pissed and bothered when I give him the boot.
My biggest mistake was making that bed a queen size, because that's the mattress size we had at the time, since bought a new matteres, but had to buy a queen b/c the bed was 75% complete...
me = dumb at times
Shannon was so excited to finally have the bed she broke out the "good" pillows and comfortable etc. Half those pillow's I'd get yelled at if I laid on.
But I agree, before marriage, I slept in the same sheets for weeks - a month and the same pillows for years... Now I have better pillows and clean sheets once a week. Actually almost had to kill the wife last year when she trough away my fav. pillow and replaced it thinking I would never notice... I'm over it now.
But what I was thinking when I read your post, was the discussion I had with her last night. I wanted to take a picture of the bed with out all that c r a p on it, and frankly without the mattress and box spring to show MY bed..... She insisted the mattress, dust ruffle thing, blankets, and all them pretty pretty pillows were set just so for the pictures of HER bed so she could send them to her mom and family...
Differing priorities and all that...
edits to make c r a p come out... I think edititing out cr ap is bull ####
Edited 9/1/2007 11:29 am ET by CAGIV
Edited 9/1/2007 11:30 am ET by CAGIV
now that she has her bed, her pillows, and her sheets, I guess it to the couch for you.Haga su trabajo de fricken
Just a few more years more....
then he may as wellTroy Sprout
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should also have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." -- George Washington
Actually, I wish you would not use the word. It does not mean just nasty or junk. The meaning that it does have is not pleasent. As my Mother-In-Law would say, "You have stuff coming out of your mouth that I would not hold in my hand."
I am even more confused by the people that use the "F---- Y--" phrase. Either it is a blessing upon my wife and I or it is a definite threat of physical harm. I do not know whether to shake the fellow's hand in appreciation or tear off his arm and shove it down his throat.
Terry
you didn't even mention the most important accessory that goes with the wedding bed.
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Very nice job brotha.
Gotta do something about those g-a-y pics on the wall though.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
I gave up on arguing about her choice of decorations.... I can say I never really gave much thought to the idea that I would be living in a house with floral arrangements and such though
What's that song?...
She likes a man with a slow hand
;)
I made one like that for my daughter. Took one weekend.
You must have liked the old bed, eh?
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The assembly wasn't all that hard, It sat idle for probably 8 months because I dreaded the thought of the finish work.
The old bed was just a metal frame with no head or foot board. The dog likes the new version b/c he can rest his head on the cap rail of the foot board and watch TV...
Yes, my dog watches TV, or at least stairs at the box and turns his head a lot
Yeah, after reading the finish sequence I could see where the time went.Our dog really sits up and pays attention when dogs are on the TV. She likes Animal Planet shows, like America's Funniest Pets and People
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before Gunner beats me to it - she's into Doggy ####!
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Very nice im gonna copy your plans but i think im gonna use pressure treaded wood i have some left over from our deck, 6 coats of thompson should give a nice look
not my plans, I took them from a book called "Bed's" and made a few modifications.
I think PT might set to much of an precedent, have any old pallets you could butcher up into lumber?
Bobbys,
Then you would get into the stainless , copper or galvanized night clothes discussion. (;
Northeastvt
OK so my GF wants to know if you would consider a second wife, she is open to the idea if she gets her own bed like that .
"Poor is not the person who has too little, but the person who craves more."...Seneca
Good looking work!
Chuck Slive, work, build, ...better with wood
Has she given you her two years notice yet?
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perfect timing.... no excuses needed those first 2 years... now she'll need to "thank" you....
may you get great use from it... and little sleep
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genius ...
pure genius.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
hey CAG ...
here's another marriage tip.
don't get sucked into the whole "fresh flowers every week deal" ...
Cath knows I rarely buy flowers/cards ... expecially "on command" ... I don't live to please Hallmark.
that doesn't mean I don't buy flowers and/or a card.
just not "when scheduled".
she'll never get a big bouquet on Valentines day ... that's uaually a 6 pack of Frambois Lambic ... rasberry beer she likes that's pretty pricey ...
then flowers are saved for ramdom times thru out the year.
that way ... U get the valentines special ...
then get extra credit for buying flowers ... on the other times ...
"cause U never buy flowers ... aww ...."
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Great looking job!
Know what you mean about pre-finishing, I made one of similar design about eight years ago, using butternut, and decided to french polish it.
Not my brightest idea, but it looks good -- or did, until SWMBO acquired cats for us.
very nice job on the bed. I've been doing a number of things on the house since I got married 7 years ago. all of them are unfinished. go figure. just started re siding this past month. wonder how far I'll get?
"it aint the work I mind,
It's the feeling of falling further behind."
Bozini Latini