Mary Ostler

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Well the bed frame is finally completed. I roped up the bed this evening, and carefully lowered myself on to the cot. Not even a creak was to be heard. Hurray! Super comfy with the wool rug hooked mattress. I just have one thing to decide… To paint, or not to paint?  That is the [...]

So close.  13 more pieces to turn, and then the decision to paint it all fancy or to leave it plain. More and more I am starting to think I might just leave it natural. Wood is so pretty, its a shame to cover up all the grain. End tenons chiseled and sanded down to [...]

Been a while since I updated the page. I came down with a severe chest cold, and it wasn’t intil the last couple of days I felt good enough to wander out to the shop. Colds over…enough lallygagging around. Since I no longer have an unlimited supply of skids, I resorted to using 2 2×3′s [...]

Foot board is now complete. I am thinking I might not add any more embelisiments to the footboard.  It will still be painted in contrasting red and black, but I think I will leave all the craziness in the head board. The two ends seperated by a couple short lenghts of 1″ doweling. The rough [...]

Finished all the turned work on the head board. Still have to paint all the parts  either red, black or gold leaf. Originally I was going to make the whole bed from the Douglas Fir pallets from my workplace. Well plans change. My company recently went through a massive restructuring. We are now primarily a [...]

Got a bit more done on the Turned Bedframe Have all the larger dowels roughed down to size Starting in on the Center Doughnut. Turning a 1″ sphere with two 1/2″ 90′ holes through it is hard… real hard! Doughnut in bedframe Center panel with 1″ spheres. The small dots are 1/4″ buttons. Not sure [...]

Got a bit more work done on the turned bed frame. Made a plan for all the spindles. Every sq. is 1″ in length. Took apart another couple of skids, turned down a half dozen to ~2″ round. More porcupine poles. The top and bottom cross rails. I will have to turn down the ends [...]

Alright, Heres my drawing (one step up from the doodle) of the turned bed frame. Heres a picture of a example of the insanity a wood turner can get up too. I have found no images of a bedframe done in such a manner, but I can so believe that a turner would have been [...]

Had a bit of a free day in the shop. I have a whole lot of scarpage needing done on the hutch chest, but I am holding of till I buy a new scrapper from lee Valley. I also need to build a lock for the hutch, and that still in the design mulling stage. So [...]

Since I have made my own hinges for the skid wood chest (the style is called a hutch) I am loath to use screws to fasten the hinges down. I want to use a clenched nail, but will not spend good money on real hand wrought nails, if I can bodge something passable. Plus I have [...]