jrush25

Have you thought about using Cyprus? It is rot resistance to water and is light. If you seal it, it will last a long time, and is easy to work with. I don't know what area your from but it is in abundance around here. Some of the other woods mention in some of the post are heavy dense woods, and unless Osage Orange (Bodark) is green it is hard on your cutting tools.

This is the crib that I made for my oldest. It is made from Red Oak aquired from a local lumber mill. The back of the crib has mortis and tennon frame, and I pegged the tennons. The slats are set in an channel with spacers inbetween, spaced below industry safety standards. The sides were attached to the back by four lag bolts each. In retrospect, I wished I had used treaded insertsand bolts insted of the lag bolts. The gate was a dropped down locking gate. I stained it to even the color and finished it with Deft. Sanding and Fisnishing is not my favorite thing to do so I go with what gives me a nice finish easily. Converting the crib to a full sized bed, I removed the sides and stored them, removed the gate hardware and made new rails for the mattresses. The gate got a new set of legs/post. I inserted bolt thread inserts into the ends of the gate and bolted the legs on. Then added a top rail on top to finish the "Now" foot board. Final touches was to add false tennons to cover up the bolt holes on the head boards that held on the sides of the crib and add false tennons to the foot board to hide the bolts the holds the legs onto the crib's gate. Both piece turned out to be great. Let me know what you think about these. Thanks Joe

I am starting making my little girls furniture for her bedroom and thought that a clothes butler designed for a Lady would be a unique piece to have in the collection. Men's suit butlers are just a coat hanger afixed to a stick figure tree and rod and peg for the pants and shirt hanger. I wanted this to be something to where she could hang her next day clothes in, set her shoes in and have a small drawer for other items. THE DESIGN: Plans are to make this no taller than 48" and about 20-22" wide, with the dept deep enough to acomidate the width of a hanger. This will be a cabinet type piece with an open front. The bottom of the opening will be angled with a ridge to set shoes. At the bottom will be a small drawer (still debating putting the drawer on top.) I may make a shallow hidden drawer on top or a hindged lid for jewlery and other things. It will be trimmed out to match her other furniture, and made of walnut. Attached it the sketch-up drawing to give me an idea of how it will look like. Plase let me know what you think and if you think this will be a practical piece to have in a Little Ladies bedroom. Lydia Butler.skp Thanks Joe