Small Project: Bed for a Special Little Dog

[wnaziri]

It was time to do a fun little project for our 3 year old Cavalier King Charles.  She was in need of an official bed. 

Well, as with many woodworkers, I am a lumber hoarder.  I have a really hard time throwing out lumber.  From my recent projects, I had accumulated a nice little collection, including cutoffs from mahogany table legs, 7/8" mahogany that I had leftover, and some veneered panels that I had made a while back for a gaming table.  I had to re-do the veneered panels because I sanded through the veneer in a couple of areas (I am sure it was the Festool sander's fault).  After a few crude sketches, I came up with the following "design".  The construction is mortise and tenoned.  The lumber is genuine mahogany.  The panel that I used for the bed is Baltic Birch with pommele sapele veneer on both sides.  The finish is satin Arm-R-Seal.

Above, you can see the panels when I was initially working on them about 1.5 years ago.  After screwing up the first batch, I ended up making a whole new set of panels.

I should mention that I was modifying the design on the fly.  

I elected to do mitered corners mainly to see the accuracy of my new Felder K700s sliding table saw.  This saw is spot on.  The miters have 3 cm dominos for strength.

Here is the end product with a couple coats of ARS.  I think that doggie likes it.  I just hope she doesn't like it so much that she starts gnawing on it.   

Thanks for viewing.

[..Kev]

Pretty cool!

[Chet]

Nice job.  Some times it is fun to go after a small project like this.

[Coop]

And I bet you’re going to put a bedding on top of the figured wood?

[JosephThomas]

Yeah I cried a little when I saw where the beautiful mahogany was going, but you gotta use it somewhere....it will be a special bed indeed.