| Project by Dave Rutan | posted 07-26-2019 11:50 PM | 459 views | 0 times favorited | 7 comments |  |
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The first piece of furniture we bought after we got married was a four drawer dresser a la This End Up. Our headboard for the bed was not of the same style but had been a gift so we just kept using it- for 30 plus years.
This year we decided to junk it as its particle board nature was showing through. I went and bought $45.00 worth of 1×4 pine and whipped this one up in an evening. It matches our dresser and we gain a foot of floor space in the room. (The old headboard contained a bookcase.)
I finished it with boiled linseed oil.
-- Ni faru ion el ligno!
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Oldtool
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#1 posted 07-27-2019 12:20 AM
Nice work Dave, this looks very nice. I suppose that if you got your 1X4s at the big box store, you spent a good deal of time looking for straight & flat stock. Was worth it though, very nice.
-- "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln
Dave Polaschek
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#2 posted 07-27-2019 12:30 AM
Nice upgrade, Dave! May it serve you another 30+ years!
-- Dave - Minneapolis
Dave Rutan
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#3 posted 07-27-2019 01:11 AM
Actually, I didn’t have to look very hard. I rejected a few that had big ugly knots, but the ones I found that day were all straight and true. Lucky I guess.
-- Ni faru ion el ligno!
Ivan
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#4 posted 07-27-2019 05:20 AM
I like it simple and rustik… Nice work
-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted
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#5 posted 07-27-2019 06:23 AM
Looks good Dave,
You should sleep like a log now!
-- Regards Rob
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#6 posted 07-27-2019 02:02 PM
nice and stout construction, good work!
Dave Rutan
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#7 posted 07-27-2019 02:37 PM
Hmm. Do logs sleep?
-- Ni faru ion el ligno!
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