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recycled bed to bench

Project by Magician posted 575 days ago 426 views 0 times favorited 9 comments Add to Favorites Watch

This old rounded foot board bed I found was covered with about 7 coats of paint. After cleaning it up and refinishing it looked like a nice walnut bed. After ssetting around for well over a year I decided maybe there would be some call for a walnut bench. This is the result.

-- Merlin the Magician, Wisconsin


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Bigbuck

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posted 575 days ago

Very nice, that came out great.

-- Glenn, New Mexico

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SCOTSMAN

2377 posts in 596 days


posted 575 days ago

Sorry Magician must be an optical illusion sorry I am llooking at the first picture and the second seem to be different to me! Is this correct ? Is that a piano hinge in the first picture? also beautiful job well done ! I can never understand why people paint these it’s very sad .Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

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MsDebbieP

15238 posts in 1171 days


posted 575 days ago

well isn’t that something!!!
I never would have thought to turn a bed into a bench!! Brilliant.
and beautiful.
Absolutely love it

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

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Toolz

358 posts in 753 days


posted 575 days ago

Great idea with wonderful results.

-- Growing older but not up!

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Dusty56

4226 posts in 699 days


posted 575 days ago

Is that solid or veneered ? the grain is fantastic !!

-- "When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."

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ND2ELK

8239 posts in 785 days


posted 575 days ago

What a beautiful chest. You did a great job on this piece. thanks for posting.

God bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

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Bradford

932 posts in 833 days


posted 575 days ago

Nice bench. Very pretty.

-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford.

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brianinpa

1364 posts in 734 days


posted 574 days ago

Nice Save and beautiful work! I share Alistar’s thoughts on paint and Walnut: why, why, why…!

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

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thetimberkid

1942 posts in 714 days


posted 569 days ago

Great job!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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