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03-03-2009, 08:37 PM
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| | King Size Bed Name: John City: Jefferson City State: TN County: Jefferson Join Date: Nov 2008  03-03-2009, 08:37 PM
A friend of mine in Asheville is very interested in finding someone to make this bed for him. I will forward messages to him from this site.
His preference would be walnut (since most of his other bedroom furniture is walnut). Hix second choice would be mahogany. He does NOT need whoever makes the bed to handle the leather upholstery. He can take the wood headboard they create to a local leather or upholstery person and have the leather and nail-head work done.   
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03-04-2009, 12:28 PM
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Name: Jimmy City: Clayton State: NC County: Johnston Join Date: Sep 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by gator  George,
When I worked for the power company (PSEG) in Nj our central maintenance shop had a lathe like that for turning turbine shafts. The one we had handled up to 26' long.
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03-04-2009, 03:20 PM
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Name: Trent Mason City: Wrightsville Beach State: NC County: New Hanover Join Date: Feb 2008 Age: 29 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Even if you had a big lathe, how do you make the "spiral"?
It seems like you would have to turn it really slowly and have a huge router bit on a track moving at a precise speed? 
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03-04-2009, 03:26 PM
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Name: Bob City: Hillsborough State: NC County: Orange Join Date: May 2007 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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03-04-2009, 07:10 PM
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Name: john City: Chapel Hill State: NC County: Orange Join Date: Feb 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by woodArtz That's an amazing site. Have you done that?
Humans are clever, no?
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03-04-2009, 08:52 PM
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Name: Dennis City: Ivan's Corner (Monroe) State: NC County: Union Join Date: Jan 2007 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by Trent Mason Even if you had a big lathe, how do you make the "spiral"?
It seems like you would have to turn it really slowly and have a huge router bit on a track moving at a precise speed? I seem to remember Sears had a lathe setup that did spirals like this 10-15 years ago. It wasn't so much a lathe as a headstock & tailstock attached to a router with some cables and gears for turning the headstock as the router was advanced parallel and down the spindle similar to a lead screw assembly on a metal lathe. It wasn't large enough to do something like that, but in principle.......
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03-04-2009, 08:59 PM
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Name: Peter City: Weddington State: NC County: Union Join Date: Jan 2008 Age: 36 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Legacy was at the Charlotte Woodworking show last year doing demos with a couple of their machines. Very nice stuff. | |
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