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What to do with the old Headboard?

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When we brought a king size bed I did not want to get rid of the queen size headboard because it matched the other bedroom furniture, so I cut the legs off. added the two oak boards and molding, reattached the legs to add 10” to each side. When I show our friends the result they say “It looks like it was made that way”.

-- Ron in Osseo, Minnesota


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MsDebbieP

14156 posts in 1055 days


posted 634 days ago

yah, you mean it wasn’t?? Good job

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Scott Bryan

20639 posts in 716 days


posted 634 days ago

Very innovative. It shows a lot of imagination.

Thanks for the post.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

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relic

342 posts in 831 days


posted 634 days ago

Slick idea that is. It looks like it was made that way. :)

-- Andy Stark

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cajunpen

5968 posts in 960 days


posted 634 days ago

Now that’s using your head. Looks like it was always a King size head board.

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

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motthunter

2079 posts in 693 days


posted 634 days ago

salvage to treasure… I like it

-- making sawdust....

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Dick, & Barb Cain

7036 posts in 1193 days


posted 624 days ago

Very nice, & also very clever.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

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Jon

22 posts in 612 days


posted 611 days ago

That’s fantastic! When I clicked to your link and saw your title and pic, I thought immediately to incorporate what I saw into a hutch or the like utilizing the two side openings with some shaped doors, running the sides right into the legs,which wood become decorative corners, and the mid section between the two arches that wood have had shaped doors added, wood be cut out to make a flip-down cubby with a light up in behind the finial arch to shed light through the crackly-seedy glassed flip-down door.The bottom wood’ve been a couple doors and some drawers… But, on the other hand, after coming in and seeing what was really up, I must say that my first reaction was that i was looking at a “made” headboard. If, indeed, you did do what you say, it looks marvelous. I really like that finial top…if it was mine, Id butcher it or something and put it in my living room on something.

-- Sometimes my wife wishes that she was a block of wood... ;-)

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rikkor

11335 posts in 768 days


posted 611 days ago

That is a pretty darned good save, Ron. Nice work.

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Beginningwoodworker

4154 posts in 567 days


posted 566 days ago

Very nice Headboard.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

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