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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 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.

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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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