This solid oak bed was made from timber donated by a friend, left over from his building of a large conservatory. The legs are 12/4 x 12/4 and the rails of the headboard and footboard are all around 8/4 X 8/4 =/- a bit, as are the frames of the bed rails.
The style is based very loosley on various Gimson & Barnsley beds with heavily chamfered open frameworks for the head & footboards. You can see such frameworks in other pieces of theirs, such as the famous sideboard in the Cheltenham museum.
The frames are housing joints, with their ends M & T’d into the legs. The M&Ts are large (14mm thick) Dominos, 4 to each rail end, let in by 2″ to both legs and rail ends.
It weighs a ton, this bed. Even the knocked down individual parts of rails and head/footboards are very hefty, or so opined the removal men when we moved house.
Liberon Finishing Oil X 5 coats, as usual.
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