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The bed will be supported by four big posts with 2 x 4 cross braces. These will go just above the mattress so the pillows don’t fall off the end. Not shown in this photo is the glue and screws which lock it all together. I used polyurethane glue (Gorilla Glue) and screws. The...
I spent a few minutes scraping off the bark to reveal the earthy texture underneath. This beetle kill wood has lots of character. Next I had to select which side of the posts to put facing the room. I chose the gnarliest one to be the corner post that will be closest to the...
Everyone knows what a Murphy Bed is, though I don’t know the story behind it. But since we designed this, we might as well call it a Boyce Bed. My sister Barb and I were talking about log beds for our family cabin and couldn’t come up with one we liked. We noodled some...
I installed the table today. I think it came out great. I ended up waxing it over the poly. Tried light brown Briwax, but while it looked good on the blonde wood, it covered up the grain too much on the blue/gray areas. So I used good old fashioned Minwax finishing wax instead. Above...
This is it. I think I’ve spend 40 to 50 hours on this. Much of that has been in the finishing process. The wood really soaks up the varnish. So do you want to see it? Actually I have a little more work to do. A fine sanding, one more coat of polyurethane and...
Construction is finished! Here are the last few steps before I move on to sealing, staining and finish coat. To keep the sliders (which will support the end leaves) from coming out too far I had to devise a stop system. I cut four 5/8″ plugs. Once drilled in the right spot it was...
Not as much to show at this stage of the construction. The few hours I spent this weekend were used plugging the screw holes and sanding, sanding, sanding. I made the plugs out of a piece of scrap beetle kill pine and the Shopsmith in horizontal boring mode. It took about two minutes. It’s...
The construction part of this project is wrapping up, though the distressing and finishing is still ahead. This week I put the bread-board ends on. These pieces are to keep the long planks from warping. I used three and a half inch screws with an over sized hole in the end pieces and no...
It’s assembly time. First I glued and nailed the skirt pieces into the slots I had cut into the outside top corners of the legs.
This the part that’s more complicated than a farmer probably would have tackled 150 years ago. I’m making leaves for our table that will mount on the ends when we need them. More on how later. I used scraps to put together two leaves about 12 inches deep (they’ll also have baker’ ends so...