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Started on the Bed for the bedroom set

So I got to spend a few hours in the workshop today and actually got quite a bit done on the bed. The headboard and foot board are being built out of 1/4 inch panels left over from re-sawing the drawer fronts. These panels are being mounted into a 1 1/2 inch frame and panel style. The center panel is going to be copper that was removed from my grandparents house when they had their roof replaced. The copper has some cool V shaped patina to it which should look pretty cool. I am going to cut the copper and laminate it to 1/4 in substrate and then it will be a panel just like the others.

Here is a picture of the work in progress.

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While I was out shopping for wood for the bed posts I visited one of my local wood dealers who had a cool piece of crotch mahogany that I just could not pass up especially when it was only $35.00. It is hard to tell from the pictures, but it is 53 inches high by 33 inches wide at the bottom and 1.5 inches thick.. I has some cracks and splits but I think I will be able to butterfly them and make a cool desktop out of it, however I am open to ideas. Thoughts of what to do with it??

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Hi Brad,

The bed is coming along beautifully and will be the highlight of a complete bedroom set. I'm quite impressed with your idea to use the copper in the center. That V-shaped patina is awesome and it was ingenious of you to think to use it on this project. It will add not only aesthetic beauty to the project but has such great sentimental value as well. As someone who also made his own bedroom furniture, I can appreciate the labor of love involved. Great job.
 
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Copper Paneling

So I spent sometime on my workshop last night cutting the copper panel for the bed to size and laminating it together.

The copper was pretty banged up from being ripped off a roof, folded up and then transported 600 miles, so I had to spend a bit of time with a rubber mallet, deadbolt and hammer to flatten it out enough to use, but I am happy with the result. I found that starting in the center and working my way out in circles worked the best, however it curled the corners, so I would then have to flip it over and work the other side a bit to work the curl out. Once I got it flat I took a piece of 1/4 plywood cut to the size I needed and held it over the area I wanted to use. While holding the panel I scored a like with a utility knife and the cut on the scoremark with a pain of tin snips. Overall it was fairly easy. Once it was cut I gently sanded the edges being careful not to sand the patina off so they were not as sharp. A

Once the copper was flattened and cut to size I used contact cement to laminate it together, put it in between two pieces of plywood and put about 400lbs of weights (Helps to have your gym in your shop :)) on top of it.

Today I stopped at the shop and mounted the panel into the foot board panel which I had put an initial coat of finish on and here is the result. It is a little hard to tell from the photo, but the panel is framed by a 1.5 inch wide frame in-between it and the next panel. I tried to match the panel/rail grains the best I could.

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