Maple and cherry trundle bed

DougGF writes: Jason, sorry for the delay in responding.

I ripped the 3/4 thick birds-eye boards into 7/8" thick strips marking them to keep the general grain pattern of the original board, steam-bent them and then glued them up in a clamping form using a fairly fast epoxy.

Once the boards set I cut the end tenons where they join with the posts and routed a 3/8 slot for the cherry panels and the tenons for the stiles. I used my RA with a dado blade to then cut the tenons. The hardest part, for me, was shaping the tenons on the stiles where they join the top rail since they have a slight curve. After a few failed attempts I decided to first shape the end on the stiles to fit the curve and then used a floating tenon.

The cap rail on the head and foot board is steam-bent cherry. This was my first effort at steam-bending and it was a great learning experience.

Doug Posted: 9:29 am on November 7th

JasonT writes: is that bent part on top a lamination? How did you attach it? Posted: 9:42 pm on November 3rd