Walnut Bed

[clowman]

Quite a while ago, I bought some Black Walnut from Jeff. Nice wide boards. My wife had plans for a Walnut bed, and something else. Well, here is the bed I have finished assembling, and started putting finish on it. This has 1 coat of Danish Oil so far. Sorry for the crappy picture, I'll get some better ones in the next few days. I took the time to use a single very wide board for the panel in the middle, and cut it to preserve the grain pattern. It's hard to tell in these pictures though.

 

[DaveO]

Beautiful Clay!! It looks like you have some nice crotch feather in some of those board. I like the way your oriented the panels and keep the grain continuous. How did you do you legs? I might be making something similar soon with some QSWO :eusa_danc

Dave

 

[michaelgarner]

Great job!! that is wonderful work!!

 

[ptt49er]

I believe your great work has given me the added push to talk the wife into building her a bedroom suite out of black walnut. That is GORGEOUS!

 

[jeff...]

Wow That's a very nice headboard Clay, one of a kind. King size? I'm very happy the BW worked out for you.

 

[nelsone]

Clay that looks great. The first pic, I thought "that's nice, but the second pic...Wow! It shows that you have some beautiful wood there! Good job and good for Jeff on finding some gorgeous wood for you!:icon_thum

 

[clowman]

Thanks guys. I'm shooting for at least 5 coats of oil. Doing the wet sanding between coats as suggested via jglord, Art and a few others of this board. After only 1 coat, it feels smooth as a baby's butt. There are a couple of knot holes in the top and bottom pieces of the headboard. I was going to fill them in, but my wife said.. don't, I like it just like that. The panels in the center is one board cut into 3 pieces and separated by the 2 vertical pieces. I sweated that measurement. I only wanted to separate those panels with a single saw blade's width of grain loss. Didn't want to screw that part up. Those legs are 3 pieces of stock glued together. I was shooting for 3inches square, but planned a bit too much off one end, so now they are about 2 3/4 square. I added a champer on the outside edges. I tried to pick out some good looking boards for the outer pieces of the legs.

Oh.. that's a queen size headboard.

 

[clowman]

Good job and good for Jeff on finding some gorgeous wood for you

I'll agree on that, he told me when I talked to him on the phone, that it was some nice looking wood. I'm 110% happy with this wood.

 

[Littlejon]

Good looking bed there!

 

[toolferone]

Well done Clay. You did a great job showing off that beautiful wood.

 

[skeeter]

Nice looking headboard and some awesome Walnut.

 

[Joe Scharle]

It looks very good Clay. I've never been satisfied with glued legs using walnut. How did yours come out and what's your trick?
Joe

 

[cpowell]

Pretty work, Clay! :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

Great stock selection - I like the way you matched up top, bottom, and center panel areas of grain swirl. Very nice.

Chuck

 

[sapwood]

Clay, that's a walnut wowser!
You created a beautiful piece and should be proud each time someone looks at it :icon_thum

Roger

 

[clowman]

I've never been satisfied with glued legs using walnut. How did yours come out and what's your trick?

I can't claim any all knowing trick. Matter of fact, this is the very first walnut piece I have ever made. With that being said, Each leg is glued up from the same board, ripped and folded over on itself. I can't say the glue lines on the legs are invisible, but they look ok. I just made sure I turned a face piece of the wood toward the front of the bed.

 

[Kyle]

nice..