Yellow & White Birch Logs #3: Headboard Assembled

That looks great. Those scribed joints look amazingly tight. Nice job.

-- Galootish log blog, http://www.timberframe-tools.com

It does look great. What is a scribed joint…a tenon with crooked wood?

So are you doing the rustic cat tree or the carpeted type?

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Spunwood:
The joints are drilled and doweled, scribing each piece together to make them look like one piece. Basicly using a compass to scribe or follow the contour of each log to fit together, its not an fast process.

Cat trees, yes they will be rustic using extra logs, I will also scribe these to make them look like a tree (I got the idea from the client I sold most of the logs to) I will use sisle rope instead of carpet.

I left out that in the last post I described that I roughed out the scribes with a Jig saw. Well I was thinking there had to be a quicker way and I remembered that I had a chain saw attachment for the grinder, yup much quicker!!

-- Doug...

Also want to add this link to when I first harvested the logs, It was posted in the lumber forum instead of this blog.
http://lumberjocks.com/topics/21717

-- Doug...

Your work is exceptionally neat!
What are you using for dowels?

-- ~Julie~ followyourheartwoodworking.blogspot.ca

Thank you Julie,
First let me mention that this is a Queen size bed frame, not sure if I’ve noted that.
So head board is 62” wide by 4’ high. and foot bd is 3’ high
The Posts & Rails are 3 1/2 – 4” Yellow Birch and I used 1 1/2” wooden dowels.
The slates are 2-3” Y Birch and I used 3/4” dowels.
I used up my stock of True 1 1/2 & 3/4 dowels, but needed to purchase more, and low and behold
their metric sized, had to shape them to size.
All assembly is with Glue only, no screws or nails.
Staining today!

-- Doug...

Thanks for replying, Doug
I have made some things with logs and used a tenon cutter. That does leave the tenons visible, of course. And I don’t mind that look, but yours looks so precise. It must take a heck of a lot of time. I also like the idea it’s glue only. I work like that too!

P.S. I’m interested in seeing the cat trees as well

-- ~Julie~ followyourheartwoodworking.blogspot.ca

Thanks for the details. Brandon

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