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This this is a bedroom set I am building for my wife and me. The dressers and nightstands are done with the bed still to be complete. The wood is mostly salvaged mahogany that was pulled out of a law office. The drawers are baltic birch with rabbeted dovetails. The fronts of the door are quilted maple that has some really cool grain to it.

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Beautiful, really excellent job!
 

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Those are sweet looking. The quilted maple looks real nice.
 

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Looks a little familiar … and a lot wonderful!

I love the way you did the whole set. Really fine job!!

Getting salvage mahogany was a real score, for you. Congrats :)
 

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great results so far… looking forward to seeing the entire set when completed….
 

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That is one fine looking set of furninture. Great work. Nice lines. Your wife has got to love it. What will the bed look like?
 

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Brad, Awesome job! Is that your shop in the pictures? If so, I AM OFFICIALLY JEALOUS!
 

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Thanks for all the great comments. If you want to follow along as the rest of the set is built check out the blog under my profile and you can watch as I finish it.
 

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Beautiful bedroom set.
 

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When I see something like this I think, "Some lucky kid is going to inherit that one day!" Very nice work.
 

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You seem to have a knack at finding sweet salvaged material. These look great. You have way too much room in your shop holy @#$%^...
 

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Yeah I always keep my eye out for deals on material and often buy good deals or take free stuff with no real idea what I am going to do with it. It drives my wife nuts but o'well :)

The shop is in the basement of a friends house which he built to host wedding and events. I got really lucky a few years ago when he said I could move out of my one car garage and into this basement space. Overall it is great the only downside is that most Saturday's during the summer it is used by weddings, but it is a small sacrifice for having the space.
 

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Beautifully done. I love the red wood of the mahogany and the contrasting quilted maple. Nice salvage too.
 

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I used tried and true original wood finish. It has 3 coats on the lower and 4 on the top. The top has been buffed with steel wool several times, but the rest has not.
 

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Brad this is an awesome looking set of furniture.
Nice score on the wood, I hear you about always on the look out my wife laughs at me constantly about it as well.

CtL
 

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Nice work, nice large shop as well would love to have this size of space lol.
 
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