King Size Head Board

**Dick Parr** · 07-25-2004, 4:25 PM

Here are some pictures of the King Size Head Board that I just got done with for the wife and me. A month ago we got the bigger bed but decided that I would make the head board with some of the wood that was lying around. A couple of years ago this would have only taken a weekend to make, but now it takes a month. Oh well, at least I still can do a little in the shop for about an hour a day. The wife didn’t realize just how much she liked to help woodworking.

The head board is 56” high x 80” wide and is made of cherry, walnut and in the middle is some canary wood I got from a nice friend in Ohio (thanks Joe).

I used a lot of biscuits, some pocket hole screws and glue to put this together. Being this wide of a project, all the end grain to end grain joining in the middle was a challenge. The tricky part was after joining the 3 sections in the middle and then sizing as one piece was to edge join the 2 pieces of cherry top and bottom because it was to flimsy to run over the jointer. That systematic blade I have on the saw gave the edges a jointer finish and it looks great after edge gluing.

Finished it with 7 coats of hand rub poly using 600 grit paper in between coats and then finished with 3 coats of wax. Finally got to try out those buffing pads for my PC 333 and it sure made it easier.

Pic 1 is the west end of the shop with the wood ready to plan
2 is before finish
3 letting it off gas a final 24 hours before installing on the bed
4 is before she put the pillows in the way

5 complete

Thanks for looking.