Porter's Bed

Jul 07, 2009 9 Replies
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Hey group!



I made this bed from cherry for my three year old son Porter. All of the joinery consists of floating tenons including the slats. I was able to find some really nice spalted cherry for a few of the slats. The remaining slats have some really nice pitch pockets that really appeal to me. It is my own design (my wife helped) and is finished with 3-coats of polyurethane (hvlp). This finish should tolerate some abuse from a 3-year old.



Comments welcomed and encouraged.



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Nice, Porter has a winner.

Lew

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Thanks everyone! I really wanted that "P" in the slat, but it looked junky. Can anyone recomend a good resource for learning inlay?

Thanks Brian

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the finished product after seeing the plans from your previous post.

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I'm a machine guy. After seeing my buddy do some inlay using his laser to cut the bed and the inlay I decided to never learn. But I would say it is probably like doing hand cut dovetails... practice.

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Thanks everyone! =A0I really wanted that "P" in the slat, but it looked

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Thanks for the link. My inlay didn't fit very well and out of frustration I smacked it into place with a mallet. It broke in three places, but suprisingly it went in. I applied glue to the cracks and made flush. It didn't look too bad, but not good enough. I think your right, it just takes practice.

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