Project Description
Each night before I go to sleep I never tire of reliving the joy I had in making this bed. I can look up at the tricks it took to make it happen. Like the “police whistle” keys that are the beginning secret to taking it apart. Or the idea that came to make the top of the long styles into a tenon that would catch the end of the top rails inside those big funny-looking ornaments.
And how could I forget measuring those rails a hundred times so that the tenon and mortise at the middle would exactly meet-hidden by those upside-down canoe shapes? Twenty years ago lifting the 90 pound headboard wasn’t a problem for me. But that was then.
The idea of the sliding panels in the headboard was not an original idea. It came from a bed we bought over 50 years ago, from an old guy who must have smoked cigars and used Vics Vapo Rub when he was in it. His comment after we paid him 100 bucks for the bed was, “I hope you have good results on it.” It’s upstairs now. We don’t ask anything from guests who use it.