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Making Your Bed

This range of four poster beds has been developed with you in mind, combining time honoured furniture making skills, with modern fittings (even the best traditions need an update).

Making The Four Poster Bed Panels

Morticing the four poster bed frame
Morticing the stile for the rails to be jointed in.
tenoning the four poster bed frame
Machining the tenon onto the rail to fit into the stile.
Hand planing the four poster bed frame Hand planing the edges of all the stiles and rails
hand sanding the bed frame
Then hand sanding them
Machining the four poster bed panel
Machining the raised fielding onto all the panels.
 the four poster bed panel The fininshed panel ready for sanding
Sanding the four poster bed panel Sanding the back of the panel
Planing the four poster bed panel
Hand planing each panel.
Sanding the four poster bed panel
Sanding around the edges of all of the fieldings. Very time consuming.
Gluing the panels for the four poster bed
Gluing the frame together with the panels for the footboard of the four poster bed
Cramp the four poster bed panel
Cramping the joints nice and tight.
 four poster bed panel
Drilling each joint ready to accept a square dowel.
 four poster bed panel
Once the dowels are knocked in, the excess is cut off. The four poster bed panel is ready for hand planing and sanding.
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