Headboard, with weathered and worn appearance.

I made this headboard for my daughter-in-law and son a couple months back. They wanted to apply the finish so as to match the other stained wood in the room. I forgot to photograph this assembled headboard when complete, so some details may not be visible due to the dark stain.

I used hard maple, nice wood to work with, and it lives up to it's name. Hard to work with hand tools unless you keep them very sharp, or it could be me and my waning strength.

The main board was glued up, then followed by surfacing with hand planes and scraper planes. The maple was in the rough from a local sawmill, and a full 1” thick.

The sides - legs are 2.5” X 2.5”, constructed by laminating 1” boards with a resawn ½” board in between. No special decorative elements were added to these.

The main board has two molding profiles cut by hand. There's a large cove on top with a top board resting on the cove, and there are three 3” wide boards running up each side and across directly under the cove.

The cove was cut in two stages, first the bulk of the waste was removed by a rabbit plane, followed by a large cove plane. The remaining boards have ovolos on each side. 

That's about it, short and sweet.

Thanks for viewing.