Thread: Blackwood bed, Blackwood/Camphor side table WIP

Nice... I'm planning a Blackwood bed for my son, possibly with a camphor laurel head-board - is that wide board in the pic camphor or blackwood??

The wide board is Camphor, the rest is Blackwood.

Hi enak, you should try and change that mind set about sharpening. I have over time replaced all ordinary blades with good blades (plenty on the market) I then take pride in how sharp I can keep them. They are slow to blunt but I make the effort to drop them out as soon as they dull and brush them up. At the end of a project or before I start a new one I take all the tools I have been using and spend an hour or so sharpening, oil them up, tune them and your ready for the next job. A sharp blade takes a lot of the effort and work out of a job. Set up a sharpening station, doesn't have to be flash just soomething to hold your stones still and comfortable to use. Get a couple of good water stones and go nuts.
WIll be watching your bits come together cupper in hand.

What Claw said. Also following the project now that mine has finished.

Cuppa in hand, feet up, now on with the show!

Claw, I am generally good about sharpening and keeping my tools in good order, it's just been the last month or two I've been bogged down in work. The worst is when you already know they are blunt, then taking a pass or two then finding there is a chip in your plane blade Fortunately I recently purchased a 120g sigma stone so fixing it wasn't nearly as bad as starting on a 325g DMT.

Regards,
Kane

As I need to make some furniture, bed included, I'll also watching this thread.
Are plans available for your design or are you making it up as you go?

Wise words from Claw!

I'd do well to follow them

Shall watch this come together as I believe there's one of these in my future (thanks SWMBO)

Snowy, it's my own design, I give myself creative freedom whilst building it, allows for adjustments and optimizations. There is a change from my previous bed build, I will have housed tenons instead of through tenons for the long stretcher. Still deciding on how to fix the backboard in place allowing it to be taken out if dirty or needs replacing, maybe a long wedged sliding dovetail.

Liking the look of this!!

Done the joinery of the short stretchers for the bed yesterday, figured out the joinery for the table frame. Still have to cut a section to house the mitred section of the leg. No hiccups so far.

Regards,
Kane

That's impressive stuff.... where do you keep the laser cutter??

Thats some really nice looking joinery Kane.

The frame is made, next to come are the legs.

Regards,
Kane

P.s. I've been asked to have it done by the weekend... I may actually make it!