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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One of only two machines with a cutterhead perfectly parallel to its beds, the DeWalt 734 is a very good planer. Knife changes overall were straightforward, but access is difficult because you must remove a Phillips-head screw from under the dust shroud—not an easy task. The dust port on the back of the machine has a 2-1/2-in.-dia. opening but can be hooked up to a 4-in.-dia. hose. Connected to a dust collector, it did an excellent job gathering chips. And because the port exits to the left of the machine, the hose is never in the way of exiting boards. The top of the machine is flat, making it a good place to stack boards between passes.
2 x BP 18 Li 4,0 HPC-ASI battery pack; rapid charger TCL 6; CENTROTEC BH 60 CE Imp magnetic bit holder; CENTROTEC Chuck; AN-XS right-angle adapter; FastFix keyless chuck 3/8“ (10 mm); BKS SYS3 D5 PZ TX 100 CE bit cassette; bit PH 2; Belt clip; Systainer SYS3 DF M 187
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