Oak and Walnut Queen Size Bed

Very nice Dusty. I like the colors of this bed.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Yeah, me too. Looks real warm and inviting.

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

Very precise looking work!

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

Beautiful piece of woodworking as always Dusty. You are amazing. Great design, great wood and great craftsmanship. Just great, great, great.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

Thanks guys.

This bed has the look and feel of a very solid piece of furniture. I agree with your when you say it is very warm feeling.

I did encounter several design challenges when building this piece. Hence the reason for ” third generation” design with building three of them

Here is the first one :

This is the second one.

close up of the foot board of the second one

As you can see I changed the design most notably by adding a center post in both the head and foot board.

Because of the weight of the over size 6 quarter plus walnut and oak that was mortise and tenon I was finding it not only bind but tended to sage and I was worried over time this would be totally inadequate.

I also changed the heights of both the head and foot boards. The first one the foot board when both a box spring and mattress was placed on the frame it came level to the top of the foot board and didn’t look balanced.

In the case of the head board you could see day light or a wall and that didn’t have the appearance I wanted either.

The biggest change from the first to the third bed was I used mortise and tenon rather than tounge and grove for the “vertical slats”.

This solved a host of other problems.

I also was able to build a much stronger bed by extending the tenons of the side boards into the 4×4 solid oak with walnut inlay bed posts.

An interesting side note to this is I gave the first bed to a friend for helping me various times in my shop and because he had fallen on hard times and couldn’t afford a bed at the time. To this day that bed is his favorite piece and still functioning with out a problem regarding what I was concerned about happening.

The second bed I sold to another buddy for only the cost of material and to this day is in use and is fully functional. His wife claims she will get rid of my buddy ( her husband) before she parts with this bed.

-- Dusty

Very nice looking bed. It certainly looks sturdy.

-- Chelle http://artsgranddaughter.blogspot.com

Good solid woodworking!

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

Your work is incredible Dusty – thanks for sharing the work and story.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Beaut color contrast Dusty, great piece of furniture.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Grumpy,

Thanks for the comment.

I admit this is one of my favorite pieces that I have designed and built in my collection. The bed has the feel a bold strong piece.

It really should be in an larger room , but I have other period pieces reserved for those.

Ii guess I will just have to add on to “This Old Crack House”, I guess.

:)

-- Dusty

Very nice! Dying to see more This Old Mold House too!

Jon3

Thank you. I hope to have the next chapter of “This Old Mold house” posted by or some time this weekend.

-- Dusty