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King Bed in Cherry and Walnut, addendum

King Bed in Cherry and Walnut, adde...

The new bed wasn’t really finished until we had it assembled, of course.  And that depended on us getting a new mattress for it, since our then-current mattress was 15 years old and showing it. In the process of shopping, one of the...
Diagonal Clock

Diagonal Clock

After completing the cherry and walnut bedroom set, I had a fair amount of leftover 5/4 cherry in the shop and a desire to do something quick and a little different.  The design for this wall clock is largely derived from the lattice work...
King Bed in Cherry and Walnut, completion

King Bed in Cherry and Walnut, comp...

Once I had my base pieces finished I made the walnut lattices that fit inside the cherry frames.  Sanding everything took almost a full day, thanks mostly to the tedium of breaking the edges on all those lattice strips. The simplest parts...