Out of the Crib

Good thinking and by the way execellent job. Your a good Grand Pa

-- Billp

Nice job, Russel. Looks like that might do it for the little fellow. Way to come up with a solution!

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

great looking bed russel hope it works out for them . i just sent my kids (2) each a key to a shiny new lexus that way all they have to do is buy the lexus !lol god i hope they dont ask me to co- sign . lol

Will you be my grandpa? Beautiful job.

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Thanks guys, I appreciate your comments.

MrTrim – I’ll have to remember that gift idea . . . you’ll have to let me know how it works out.

And Blake, while I enjoy being a grandpa, I think you’re a little too old. If you’re not, then judging by your picture, you must have been a big baby (and I mean big), I feel for your mother. ;-)

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

Nice work I am especially impressed with the stain job usually pine doesn’t look that good.

-- Woodworking is Life. Anything before or after is just waiting.--S. McQueen sort of

Russel, good job on the bed, it turned out really nice! I have to agree with RobG, good job on the finish!

-- Shane, Askov, Minnesota

Very nice Russel – isn’t it fun building things for the grand kids? Your bed should be with him for many years to come.

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

Looks terriffic.

-- Maplewood, MN

good one, Russel. I hope it works.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

great plan and a great bed!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Russel, I don’t know if the child psychologists would agree with this approach or not, but it’s a great excuse for woodworking project, and a fine one at that!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Charlie, I guess I wasn’t really considering the psychologists, but I would think that they’d endorse transitional familiarity as an efficatious methodology for placating environmental displacement anxiety. ;-)

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

Sounds like you’ve got it covered. <g>

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Anybody who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. (Or so Sam Goldwyn allegedly said.) I’ve seen plans for a crib that turns into a child’s bed then into a daybed or something, so (with all due respect to the profession … which means “no respect” if you stop to think about it—if someone was due respect, you wouldn’t be saying stuff like I do), a psychologist or psychiatrist who objected to your solution would probably be a little off in his or her thinking. I actually know a child clinical psychiatrist, so maybe I’ll ask him, although I have a feeling his answer would be something starting with “bull” and ending with something else. Anyway, the only danger I’ve found in creating pieces to meet a specific need like that (I did a mini-morris chair, ottoman, and bookrack to encourage my business associate’s grandson to read) is that 1) the kid was already locked into his preference (lying on his gut playing Gameboy) 2) his mother “took over” the chair, and 3) the bookrack ended up holding game CDs.

-- Hibernicvs

Russel, your justification sounds “sound” to me.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Don’t quote from King Lear … Don’t quote from King Lear … Don’t quote from King Lear.

There. It worked. I didn’t say, “A tale told by an idiot, full of the sound and the fury, signifying nothing.”

Oops.

-- Hibernicvs

Superb Job! Very talented person you are. :)

-- Dana,Texas