I had promised the wife to make a bed for us. I finally completed it.
After years of following this newsgroup, thought I'd post the results of the
work. It's made from knotty rough sawn alder that I had on hand for many
years. It was my first large scale attempt at mortise and tenon. The
finish is done with 3 coats of blond shellac.

Mike and Lora wrote:
I had promised the wife to make a bed for us. I finally completed it.
After years of following this newsgroup, thought I'd post the results of the
work. It's made from knotty rough sawn alder that I had on hand for many
years. It was my first large scale attempt at mortise and tenon. The
finish is done with 3 coats of blond shellac.

Great work .... lots of mortise and tenons, and an excellent job doing them!

Something to be very proud of.

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"Mike and Lora" wrote in message
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I had promised the wife to make a bed for us. I finally completed it.
After years of following this newsgroup, thought I'd post the results of
the work. It's made from knotty rough sawn alder that I had on hand for
many years. It was my first large scale attempt at mortise and tenon. The
finish is done with 3 coats of blond shellac.



Very nice. Should last a couple hundred years in the family.

How many board feet in there?

"Mike and Lora" wrote:

I had promised the wife to make a bed for us. I finally completed
it. After years of following this newsgroup, thought I'd post the
results of the work. It's made from knotty rough sawn alder that I
had on hand for many years. It was my first large scale attempt at
mortise and tenon. The finish is done with 3 coats of blond shellac.

Even have hydronic heating to go with that great wood working.

Congratulations.

Lew

"Mike and Lora" wrote in message
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I had promised the wife to make a bed for us. I finally completed it.
After years of following this newsgroup, thought I'd post the results of
the work. It's made from knotty rough sawn alder that I had on hand for
many years. It was my first large scale attempt at mortise and tenon. The
finish is done with 3 coats of blond shellac.

Lots of mortices there.

Did you rout them out and square them up with a chisel?

Lee Michaels wrote:
"Mike and Lora" wrote in message
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I had promised the wife to make a bed for us. I finally completed it.
After years of following this newsgroup, thought I'd post the results of
the work. It's made from knotty rough sawn alder that I had on hand for
many years. It was my first large scale attempt at mortise and tenon. The
finish is done with 3 coats of blond shellac.

Lots of mortices there.

Did you rout them out and square them up with a chisel?

I see a router and I see chisels, but I don't see a mortise machine. That's a
lot of mortises to square up by hand!

Very nice work Mike!

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"Mike and Lora" wrote in message
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I had promised the wife to make a bed for us. I finally completed it.
After years of following this newsgroup, thought I'd post the results of
the work. It's made from knotty rough sawn alder that I had on hand for
many years. It was my first large scale attempt at mortise and tenon. The
finish is done with 3 coats of blond shellac.



Pretty cool, I like the desigh.

Nice work, and great set of pictures.......
Now it may be my turn?
john
"Mike and Lora" wrote in message
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I had promised the wife to make a bed for us. I finally completed it.
After years of following this newsgroup, thought I'd post the results of
the work. It's made from knotty rough sawn alder that I had on hand for
many years. It was my first large scale attempt at mortise and tenon. The
finish is done with 3 coats of blond shellac.

"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
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Very nice. Should last a couple hundred years in the family.

How many board feet in there?

To be honest I'm not really sure...I had a bunch of the alder and just
started putting it together.

"Lee Michaels" wrote in message
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Lots of mortices there.

Did you rout them out and square them up with a chisel?

I deviated from the plans I had which called for using a jig and router
and creating dados in each inner face. I used the radial arm saw to cut the
dados. I then cut each of the railings slightly oversized and used the
jointer to creep up on each of the mortises. Some (most) of the mortises
required a little bit of paring with chisel to make it a tight fit. Time
consuming to say the least, but it seemed to work out quite well. Thanks
for the feedback!

Mike and Lora wrote:
"Lee Michaels" wrote in message
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Lots of mortices there.

Did you rout them out and square them up with a chisel?

I deviated from the plans I had which called for using a jig and router
and creating dados in each inner face. I used the radial arm saw to cut the
dados. I then cut each of the railings slightly oversized and used the
jointer to creep up on each of the mortises. Some (most) of the mortises
required a little bit of paring with chisel to make it a tight fit. Time
consuming to say the least, but it seemed to work out quite well. Thanks
for the feedback!

Did you *glue* all those verticals into the mortises? If so, it looks like a
potential glue-up nightmare to me! You'd definitely want to use a glue with a
long open time...

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See Nad. See Nad go. Go Nad!
To reply, eat the taco.
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Did you *glue* all those verticals into the mortises? If so, it looks
like a
potential glue-up nightmare to me! You'd definitely want to use a glue
with a long open time...

--
See Nad. See Nad go. Go Nad!
To reply, eat the taco.


The top and bottom rails for the head and footboard are mortise & tenon
and they were glued. The slats were press fit into each mortise. I used an
18 ga. brad on the inner bottom of both the headboard and footboard and
left the upper portion of the slats free-floating to allow for expansion. I
wouldn't even want to try to glue all 32 slats that were in each
head/footboard. Besides, I thought it would rack it's self apart with
seasonal movement.

On 12/15/2009 11:23 AM, Mike and Lora wrote:
"Lee Michaels" wrote in message
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Lots of mortices there.

Did you rout them out and square them up with a chisel?

I deviated from the plans I had which called for using a jig and router
and creating dados in each inner face. I used the radial arm saw to cut the
dados. I then cut each of the railings slightly oversized and used the
jointer to creep up on each of the mortises. Some (most) of the mortises
required a little bit of paring with chisel to make it a tight fit. Time
consuming to say the least, but it seemed to work out quite well. Thanks
for the feedback!


Were those the plans from Woodsmith? I made a bed that looks almost
exactly the same using Woodsmith plans a few years ago...

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"Mike and Lora" wrote in message
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I had promised the wife to make a bed for us. I finally completed it.
After years of following this newsgroup, thought I'd post the results of
the work. It's made from knotty rough sawn alder that I had on hand for
many years. It was my first large scale attempt at mortise and tenon.
The finish is done with 3 coats of blond shellac.



That is really beautiful. Well done.

Vic