Porter's Bed

Hey gang!

I made this bed from cherry for my three year old son Porter. All of the joinery consists of floating tenons including the slats. I was able to find some really nice spalted cherry for a few of the slats. The remaining slats have some really nice pitch pockets that really appeal to me. It is my own design (my wife helped) and is finished with 3-coats of polyurethane (hvlp). This finish should tolerate some abuse from a 3-year old.

Headboard:

Footboard:

I have plenty of in progress pictures at my personal web site, but here are a few below. I was originally going to have a “P” inlayed in the center 6” footboard slat, but I was unhappy with the result and left it out (I batch cut three 6” center slats just in case).

Close up:

Pre-finish:

Parts:

Thanks for looking.

-- Brian http://www.garagewoodworks.com