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Dining Room Table and Chairs

Sep 14, 2009

QSWO draw-leaf table and walnut A & C side chairs

Maple and cherry trundle bed

Oct 30, 2008
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The trundle bed is constructed from maple using cherry panels.  The frames for the head and foot boards are solid birds-eye maple.  The top rails are steam-bent.  The bed slats are...

Bedroom Project

Oct 30, 2008
1 comment

This project included a pair of lamps, 2 night stands and a tall chest (not shown).  The chest was mostly copied from from a Stickley design.  The night stands follow the Stickly...


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Re: Arts and Crafts Bed

Mike, very clean joinery and I love the inlay. One question: are using InLace epoxy or anotherr brand? When I have used epoxy in the past for inlays I discovered, to my chagrin that you must ude thickeners to prevent the epoxy from saturating the the surrounding wool cells. How do you handle this?

Nice work -
DOug

posted: 12:46 pm on September 15th  

Re: Chippendale Arm Chair in cherry

That is really lovely work. The carving and poportions are perfect for the period and I can see why the upholstry shop refused payment. Very nice indeed.

posted: 12:39 pm on September 15th  

Re: Maple and cherry trundle bed

Jason, sorry for the delay in responding.

I ripped the 3/4 thick birds-eye boards into 7/8" thick strips marking them to keep the general grain pattern of the original board, steam-bent them and then glued them up in a clamping form using a fairly fast epoxy.

Once the boards set I cut the end tenons where they join with the posts and routed a 3/8 slot for the cherry panels and the tenons for the stiles. I used my RA with a dado blade to then cut the tenons. The hardest part, for me, was shaping the tenons on the stiles where they join the top rail since they have a slight curve. After a few failed attempts I decided to first shape the end on the stiles to fit the curve and then used a floating tenon.

The cap rail on the head and foot board is steam-bent cherry. This was my first effort at steam-bending and it was a great learning experience.

Doug

posted: 9:29 am on November 7th