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   WilliamHF | May 16, 2003 10:40pm | #1

   Hi, Joe

   I built the Shaker style bed shown by Jeff Miller in his Taunton Press Book, "Beds."

   I built a model first and its proportions looked fine and I went ahead and built the bed.

   It is about a year and a half old now and is a nice looking piece and sleeps just fine.

   The way I arrived at the size for the King Size version was to build it to standard King Size dimensions.

   Obviously the width of the bed makes incorporating a longitudinal support in the midline ----so that the slats won't  give/bow significantly under load---- imperative.

   Let me know if I can be of any help.

   William.

   I make something, sometimes twice, each year.
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   Pd5190 | May 20, 2003 05:41am | #2

   First lets see if I can attach a picture because without it my description maybe for nothing. I built a headboard log style using a saddle blanket suspended between two horizontal poles. Around this headboard I built a pier group with light bar. the pier group is tongue and groove pine with a poplar face plate ( I should have used oak) I wanted a harder wood in the event I ever put doors on it. This is a California king bed.

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   Pd5190 | May 24, 2003 11:36pm | #4

   Pier group and and king size headboard

   
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   tj2 | May 24, 2003 08:45pm | #3

   Hi Joe,

   Norm built a very nice mahogany king size headboard this season. Not Shaker style though. You can check it out at newyankee.com.

   Tim