Happy New Year,
As promised, I am posting a pic of the bed I just finished. The neat thing about this bed is I went back to my woods, selected a suitable walnut tree, cut it down and sawed it on my Woodmizer. Put into kiln for 50 days and had all the boards I needed. The top cylinder is 4 inch that I had to carve by hand because I don’t have a lathe. The rest of the bed is solid 6/4 walnut without gluing any boards together. The headboard is veneered birdseye walnut, I know, I didn’t think it existed either. I have about 90 hours in the bed. Feedback welcome.
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You may want to save these to your desktop, they take too long to upload. Is there anyway to make them a smaller pic so I can upload them all?
Set your camera for lower resolution. 640x480 is usually good enough. Duke"... Buy the best and only cry once.........
guys, I'm really trying to get this damn camera to take 480 x 800!!!!!!!!!!!
Woodman,
I think you should continue to take large photos. Higher quality when you print them.
But, when you want to post them, downsize them with Paint (in your Microsoft programs under Accessories), or some other photo program.
Be sure and save them under a new name so you preserve your original larger size file for printing purposes. Once you make it smaller, you can't make it bigger with its original quality.
Alan - planesaw
Thanks Alan! These should be better.
That bed is absolutely beautiful! It must be satisfying to cut and dry your own lumber, mill it from rough to finished, and make a family heirloom! I too have a portable woodmizer and I am doing just what you did. Good going!!!
Woodman,
Any chance you can get these down to 100 to 150K in size? Those with dial-up will have to close down and start over and the rest of us can't see the whole photo at one time on our screen.
thanks,
Alan- planesaw
Let's try these. They may still be too big.
Alan - planesaw
Beautiful work but shouldn't there be a footboard to complete the illusion of a sleigh?
Bill,
You are exactly right, but my wife cannot sleep in a true "sleigh" bed, she say's she feel's trapped. That was ok by me, because I didn't have to build another end.
Thanks for looking.
Jeff
Its still a great piece of work. Congratulations!
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