| Project by bigpops0259 | posted 91 days ago | 808 views | 9 times favorited | 26 comments |  |
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Hi Fellow Jocks,
Thought I would share my current project. Since the down turn in my business, I wanted to make something that would keep my mind going in the right direction. A little twisted I’m. I started this project eight months ago. My daughter gave me my first Grandson. I made a Conversion Crib/Bedroom set, I finished before he was born on Nov. 21, 2008, you can see that at my Lumberjock Projects page. This project was thought up one night after I gave her the crib, I thought well if he stays here what do I do? I started with Resaw, cutting laminates 3 1/2” x 24” for the stand canes pictured below. I made these twice to get the form you see. They were made of Cherry sandwiched over Maple. Wood form and Dry laminate clamping culls was the process. Bending was a slow, and rather hard thing to do without cracking, Laminates were 1/16” thick. I made the legs in two sections and milled for tendon slot to receive canes, and glued together. The stretcher was made from the same form as the cradle main frame, I just altered it to bend over half way up the sides. Cut into three equal pieces. Set at angles and made a filler to fill in the center flat sections. Tendon cut into the legs, made maple washer and made Cherry/Maple dowel pins to lock.
The cradle sides were the hard part. Made another wood form for spindles cut laminates wide enough to make a pair at a time. Cherry sandwich Maple, a lot of Resaw work, these had to be about 1/16” x 3 1/4” x12” to form well. I used the same form for top cradle rail as I did for the Cradle main frame, before cut down for stretchers. One side will be fix the front was made to remove so it can be used as a swing later. Spindles were all tendons cut into top cradle rail and lower seat frame.
Sand and More sanding and shaping the spindles. Proved to almost get the best of me. Final fit was also a little problematic, I had to machine down bed rail fasteners to fit behind the rail so to not be seen in full assembled form. I also had to figure out how to fasten the bottom of the removable rail so it would not move in cradle form, I ended up with three Brass Lamp knob that screwed in to wood screw inserts. Three coats of antique oil and wax it’s finished. Structurally it’s very strong I can sit comfortably on it without any give, so I think it will support anything a child can hand out. Hope you all enjoy.
-- Marty Ohio
26 comments so far
cpd011
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posted 91 days ago
Wow! that’s pretty much all I can say.
a1Jim
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posted 91 days ago
Hey Marty this would be a great how too blog. Fantastic work.
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jussdandy
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posted 91 days ago
wow, beautiful and any other word ya care to use, two thumbs uip. love it
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Don Newton
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posted 91 days ago
Outstanding! Man…you should have blogged this!
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MedicKen
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posted 91 days ago
Thawaaapppppp! Thats the sound of my jaw hitting the floor…..Very cool
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Dennis Zongker
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posted 91 days ago
WoW, Incredible Cradle.
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mtnwild
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posted 91 days ago
Wholly cow, WOW! Super fantastic!
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Mathew Nedeljko
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posted 91 days ago
Never seen anything like it! Outstanding!
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BeachedBones
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posted 91 days ago
Super job, a cradle like that deserves to be used well. Is that a subtle hint for more grandchildren?
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brianinpa
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posted 91 days ago
Marty that is beautiful!
-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.
bigpops0259
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posted 91 days ago
Thanks Guys,
Your all way to kind! If only you knew how many times, I was ready to scrap the complete project.
I lost two Finger tips in the project, but don’t tell anyone. My Wife still Kids me about it. That’s when I had to do a easier project. CLEAN THE SHOP!
-- Marty Ohio
CharlieM1958
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posted 91 days ago
What a fantastic piece of woodworking!!!
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
Karson
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posted 91 days ago
A very creative piece. Thinking outside the box. Great design and construction.
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Innovator
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posted 91 days ago
Beautiful, simply beautiful!!!
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kolwdwrkr
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posted 91 days ago
awesome
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lightweightladyleftie
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posted 91 days ago
Marty,
What an incredible cradle, and with the swing feature, it will never be outgrown. To eliminate arguments later, you had better do one for each of your grandchildren! ;-)
We are, however, really sorry to hear about your accident while making it.
-- "But godliness with contentment is great gain." 1 Timothy 6:6
woodbutcher
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posted 91 days ago
bigpops0259,
Absolutely stupendous design. The creativeness is so captivating, and the build is excellent. Congratulations on such a wonderfull creation. Thanks so much for sharing.
Sincerely,
Ken McGinnis
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TonyWard
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posted 91 days ago
Marty
Wow, great work. You’ve pushed out the boundaries for cradles, great design and well executed.
Tony Ward
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MsDebbieP
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posted 90 days ago
that is just incredible .. just extraordinary!!
how many tears were shed by people seeing this for the first time.. and second time…
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Rocky34
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posted 90 days ago
Marty
It’s beautiful. I can see why it took 8 months and 2 fingertips to complete. A wonderful hand me down to your children.
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kine97/Theresa
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posted 90 days ago
That looks like a museum piece…..Just looking at it makes my eyes happy!
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Mikeyf56
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posted 89 days ago
What a piece, you can be very proud of your work. Holy cow…...
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Herbiej
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posted 86 days ago
Think I’ll just remove the picture of my cradle. Mine looks very amaturish compared to yours. I am amazed. Don’t think I will live long enough to aquire your skill class. EXCELLENT!
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Mark D.
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posted 86 days ago
Beautiful and functional piece! It reminds me a bit of something that would be right at home in a Tolkein novel, perhaps in a home in hobbiton? I love it.
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Stanley Coker
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posted 86 days ago
All I can say is WOW and WOW I am in the process of building a cradle for my nephew’s first child and was going to put it on but is will be nothing I mean nothing like yours.
Great Great job.
-- Stanley, North Georgia
bigpops0259
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posted 86 days ago
Thanks Guys, This project started as an experiment. I guess I just got lucky, that it turned out this good. Don’t know if I would attempt another. Making the rib spindles work in the curved corners was a nightmare. But ” Risk nothing gain nothing ” It makes me happy that so many of my fellow jocks like this project.
-- Marty Ohio