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Albatross
Altar
Amboyna Turning
Angels
Ash Sphere
Beds For My Boys
Big Woody
Bookcase
Brass Balls
Church Windows
Dovetail Box
Gold Dolphins
Grandfather Clock
Hope Chest
Hope Chest Testimonial
Jewelry Store
Jewelry Store Testimonial
Lacewood Bowl
Lacewood Desk
Mendocino Vessel
Pipe Smoker's Table
Plant Stand
Pocket Watch Case
Predator
Rickshaw
Rocking Chair
Rocking Chair Frame
Rolltop Desk
Spalted Vase
Stagecoach Chest
Stopper & Vessel
Telephone Stand
Telephone Table
Violin Case
Walnut Vase
X-ray Devices
Ron Renner
Geppetto's Woodworks
Vancouver, Washington
360-606-2949
Website by ~ Neal Lubow
A system of bunk beds was my solution.
The bottom bed is a full size and the upper one is a twin. Each boy had his own bookcase with movable shelves and there was a place to do homework that NEVER EVER got used except as a placemat for toys and videos.
The oak I used for the front posts was originally a single large plank that I ripped and re-glued. The figure (pattern in the wood) in the bedposts is one of the highlights of the bed system. I decided to embellish the exposed end of the upper bunk headboard with the inlay in the photo below. It contains a variety of woods, including ebony, purpleheart and fiddleback maple. The inlay is about 2-1/2 by 4-1/2 inches.
Of course children grow up and leave......so the beds stayed home.
It got traded for a package of landscape work here on the property. It would have been a lot less expensive to just buy a set of bunk beds. That wasn’t the point. I wanted to do something for the boys that was from their dad......and......like most children, there was no understanding of the time and effort brought to bear in the design and fabrication of this piece. But then that’s not their job. Their job is to be children. They grow up so quickly......they grow away so quickly.
Nothing stays the same except change......the constant.
