Made with hand-cut draw-bored M&T. Most steps were hand-work. Rough milling and re-sawing is aided by power tools (I say aided because I did cut things to length from the initial stock using a hand saw and squared up all the ends of all the boards by hand, etc.). Essentially the only step I have used power is thicknessing and re-sawing (jointing is by hand, squaring is by hand, and absolutely all joinery, including ship lap, etc. is by hand). Even all of the profile shaping is done by hand!

I found boards with curves in the grain to follow the curve in the headboard and footboard. Also, I decided to go with book-matched ship lap for the panels, and I was able to find a board with curved grain to produce a book match that followed the curve in the middle divider. by book matching, the curves in the grain would follow on both sides by being a mirror image. Note also that the book matched panels were obtained from two boards. One board was used to get the very outside two boards (one is not shown) and the middle book match that follows the centre divider. A second board produced the other two bookmatches, so that the middle two boards on each side of the centre divider are individual bookmatches with each other, and all four of these boards were obtained from just a single board (to ensure colour matching).

Surface prep is plane/card scrapers only, and finish is BLO and blonde shellac.

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