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My father and I made this cradle for my brother and his wife’s new baby girl. It took us 4 months of weekend to take 4/4 ruff mill walnut to end project. The cradle was delivered 4 days after the baby was born, talk about cutting it close. The cradle breaks down into a soon to be made case for transport and/or storage. The eight pegs that hold it together are made from Zebra wood and the walnut was finished with 6 coats of 2 pound cut shellac.
Things I would change if I did this project again.
The plans called for half inch wood and we made it true to the plans. If I were to make it again, I would use 3/4 vs. the 2/4 finish stock to add to the mass of the cradle. It was a real shame taking 4/4 stock which was really 5/4 when I got it home and measured it down to 2/4 which the plans called for. At the time our 18” resaw bandsaw was not setup so watching all that wood turn to sawdust was truly heartbreaking.
When the cradle was finally completed prior to finishing, we assembled the cradle to test how level the cradle was. We knew that we would have to fine tune the feet to make it level but as it turned out, it was less then 1 degree off from perfect. This completely stunned my father and I.
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Napaman
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#1 posted 1809 days ago
beautiful cradle…but the baby takes the cake…please pass on a congrat;s from this LJ…
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griff
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#2 posted 1809 days ago
Beautiful cradle and its companion, congrats to all, very well done
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#3 posted 1809 days ago
Perfect….Both of them
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#4 posted 1809 days ago
Tossil…..........nice job….......love the cradle in walnut. Best part is the Be-babe just rock’in!!!!!! Yeah….knock’in down without resawing to 1/2” must hurt a bit, but for shipping reason if it goes cross-country or around the world 1/2” makes it lighter and still has the structure. Interesting choice on the zebra wood pegs.
Hoping the cradle has a few more occupants and gets passed around…....You and Dadio slammed it.
Neil
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#5 posted 1808 days ago
Beautiful Baby and craddle, by the looks if the cradle it should last for many generations of baby’s.The knockdown style is good idea. As Neil said above I love your selection of woods.
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CharlieM1958
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#6 posted 1808 days ago
Excellent work.
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#7 posted 1808 days ago
Beautiful cradle for a beautiful baby! You guys did a great job on this cradle. Thanks for posting.
God Bless
tom
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#8 posted 1808 days ago
Sweet job on both. I don’t know which I like best. mike
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#9 posted 1808 days ago
Made with Love…Blkcherry
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#10 posted 1807 days ago
Beatuifull both of them,quite a head of hair for a newborn, congrats and thanks for sharing.
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