Bryan Cowing
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- Ridgetown, Ontario, Canada
That's a beautiful looking bed Bryan. When attaching a fairly large chunk of wood to the posts like you did in the foot-board, how do you accommodate wood movement?
Yes, you need 6 covers for this bed, $4 from Lee Valley. Having the head and footboard come apart from the posts makes it easy to transport.Interesting, I hadn't thought of doing bed bolts in both directions. Certainly looks like a solid idea.
Are you putting medallions or plugs over the bolt holes?
I like the duplicator, as I can easily make turned parts and get away from only making flat projects. I bought it to produce newels and balusters for our new house 10 yrs ago now. I picked up one baluster and one newel I liked the look of from the lumber yard for to use as a pattern. The staircase parts & install was a $2600 kick back from the builder. I spent $500 on oak to produce the turned parts and handrails. Handrails required buying a $100 freud handrail bit for the side profile. My Worksharp 3000 with leather hone makes it easy to keep the HSS V cutter sharp. If money was no object a Hapfo lathe would be fun to play with.you sure get your moneys worth out of that duplicator and the lathe its hooked to if i were to go to the spinny side i would like to have a duplicate of your setup..
probably 45F this morning in the attached garage. I got the gas furnace on but a gallon of lacquer takes a long time to warm up. I have a small metal cabinet that can hold 2 gallons on a shelf and I have a 75 watt bulb in there for heat. After a couple hours the lacquer is 80F. Cold lacquer doesn't flow very well.Lacquer in the warming cabinet? What the heck is the temperature in your shop?
No, it's whats left of an old bedroom suite. The headboard was given to one of the kids yrs ago IIRC.looks great,, now did you make the dresser as well? dont remebr that one if you did bryan,, i am forgetfull these dyas
Thanks everyone! Wife does all the decorating. She's always changing / moving things around. I guess thats her hobby, and also does the same to the gardens.That sure came out nice Bryan. Great looking room.