Project by Brent12 | posted 03-23-2015 03:06 PM | 1008 views | 0 times favorited | 3 comments | ![]() |
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My father in law gave us the headboard and frame from his childhood bed when my oldest grew out of his toddler bed. When we got bunkbeds for our boys, I asked him if he would like the headboard back as a keepsake. He said not to worry about it. Well that wasnt going to work for me. Little backstory on him….He is a great man, who served our country with honor for 22 years and retired as a First Seargent. I thought itwould be neat to turn it into a storage bench that kind of had a footlocker feel to it. I figured he could keep his Army keepsakes in it. I put it together with pocket screws, and made the box bottom out of hardware cloth. I spent a long time researching the proper regulations for the size of the guidon and the letters and numbers and then scaled it down perfectly. I carved the headboard with a dremel over about 30+ hours, and then made my wife paint the carvings with paint i found to match the proper colors. Couple of coats of satin polyacrilic capped off a very long and tedious build for a man that deserves even more. It was the project that fueled my desire to start learning wood working over the last two years. It wasnt perfect, and I learned a lot but I am not sure I will ever make anything again that will make a gruff old Army Vet cry like this did.
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gcsdad
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#1 posted 03-23-2015 10:53 PM
That is awesome! Great job.
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#2 posted 03-23-2015 11:18 PM
Very well done! Respect!
-- Dave; Lansing, Kansas
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#3 posted 03-24-2015 12:27 AM
Thank yall
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