This has been in the garage being worked on for a while.. but finally delivered (just lacking handles to be delivered, but ill go back and install those whenever they arrive).
The pieces all started off with some extra wide walnut stock I had ordered and shipped in from Pennsylvanie:
The dresser and nightstands were all traditional joinery of mortises/tenons/rabbets/dados, so lots of prep work on the joinery..
Then it was on to the drawers... lots of drawers and lots of dovetails..
I am always a fan of using the same board on pieces with multiple columns of drawers.. but that meant lots of labeling and tracking to make sure they were all kept in the right position:
There were also a matching pair of nightstands to go along with the dresser.. same general design and process:
Finished dressers/nightstands.. (sans handles):
The bed was a classic raised panel style, but I always hated large raised panels that had multiple narrow boards glued together, so once again I used the extra wide stock to make sure each raised panel was only 2 boards glued together:
lots of test fitting and marking of joints when testing so that when I tore them all down and reassembled them everything went back together properly:
the raised panels float in order to allow them to move without fighting the frame and cracking it.. which means finishing the panels prior to assembly (otherwise if they did shrink/swell/move you could see an exposed line of unfinished material):
then once glued together, in order to keept the finish even, the panels are masked while the frame is sprayed:
then once they are even in base coats, I could spray the whole things:
I noticed on assembly that the piece could rack some in the hardware, which could stress the hardware if not careful, so I made a few buttresses in the corners to reinforce the piece. These are set up so that just one bolt into a machine insert is needed at each joint, so the whole bed goes together with just 4 bolts. The blocks you see on the side rails is to properly space the mattress supports. The boards they are on actually are adjustable between 2 positions on the rails so that you can have the mattress set lower in the sides, or you can move them up and the mattress sets about 7" higher:
another test fitup pic (prior to complete finish on the frame):
the complete headboard and footboard with finish:
Up next is about 3 live edge tables, and a curly maple desktop which I am torturing myself by doing a texas lonestar inlay.. teaser pic on those projects, but will have more once they are complete:
The pieces all started off with some extra wide walnut stock I had ordered and shipped in from Pennsylvanie:
The dresser and nightstands were all traditional joinery of mortises/tenons/rabbets/dados, so lots of prep work on the joinery..
Then it was on to the drawers... lots of drawers and lots of dovetails..
I am always a fan of using the same board on pieces with multiple columns of drawers.. but that meant lots of labeling and tracking to make sure they were all kept in the right position:
There were also a matching pair of nightstands to go along with the dresser.. same general design and process:
Finished dressers/nightstands.. (sans handles):
The bed was a classic raised panel style, but I always hated large raised panels that had multiple narrow boards glued together, so once again I used the extra wide stock to make sure each raised panel was only 2 boards glued together:
lots of test fitting and marking of joints when testing so that when I tore them all down and reassembled them everything went back together properly:
the raised panels float in order to allow them to move without fighting the frame and cracking it.. which means finishing the panels prior to assembly (otherwise if they did shrink/swell/move you could see an exposed line of unfinished material):
then once glued together, in order to keept the finish even, the panels are masked while the frame is sprayed:
then once they are even in base coats, I could spray the whole things:
I noticed on assembly that the piece could rack some in the hardware, which could stress the hardware if not careful, so I made a few buttresses in the corners to reinforce the piece. These are set up so that just one bolt into a machine insert is needed at each joint, so the whole bed goes together with just 4 bolts. The blocks you see on the side rails is to properly space the mattress supports. The boards they are on actually are adjustable between 2 positions on the rails so that you can have the mattress set lower in the sides, or you can move them up and the mattress sets about 7" higher:
another test fitup pic (prior to complete finish on the frame):
the complete headboard and footboard with finish:
Up next is about 3 live edge tables, and a curly maple desktop which I am torturing myself by doing a texas lonestar inlay.. teaser pic on those projects, but will have more once they are complete: