Boat Bed

Very cool Damian. I bet he just loves the boat. Sails away each night in his dreams..

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Very, Very nice Fins a lucky boy.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Cool!...my niece lives on the water on Cape Cod and has a little boy. Their downstairs family room has a boat bar and buffet table from the previous owner but this is much nicer. I think I’ll show it to her. They might like to do something similar.

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

Very cool project. Did you save anything over buying the pottery barn item? Obviously higher quality with yours, but any savings? Usually I negate the cost by purchasing tools for the project.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

I probably did save a bunch; but that’s only because the PotteryBarn one is so over priced ($2000) it took forever though (about 18mths) the drawers being especially difficult.

-- I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

magnificent.
SO cool.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

That is the neatest bed I’ve ever seen. The four drawers in the bow are a great idea. You took on quite a challenge and won.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Wow! I grew up on the Chesapeake Bay and would have loved to have that as a bed!

-- "Everything that is great and inspiring is created by the individual who labors in freedom" -- Albert Einstein

Awesome! That’s a great bed!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

that is sweet!!!! i want one…forget the kids…

-- Matt--Proud LJ since 2007

I am Inspired! Thank you so much for sharing. Now to convince the wife that we need one too. ;)

If I was to build another it would come together a lot quicker. I designed this project in sketchup and I think having designs that were a little too detailed held me back in this case; specifically regarding the front drawers.

I built the walnut/teak&holly bow before the drawers. So the curve was set, then from that I built four forms, two for the top drawers, two for the bottom. What I should have done is just twisted the luan for both the top and bottom drawer and just let it form its own twist. Spent way too much time bending them to my will (pardon the pun) instead of letting the wood itself dictate the design. Also building them separately instead of together meant a lot of fiddling getting the bottom of the top drawer aligned with the top of the bottom drawer. A very good lesson though.

-- I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

Its funny how Sketchup can almost make it too easy. Very easy to design things that are very difficult to build. A great list of 1sts there Damian.

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

That’s just fantastic! Nice that you learned several things too.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Van Gogh -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Now that is COOL!

-- Don, on California's Central Coast