Thursday, January 22, 2015

On Site Maple becomes Bunk Beds



This set of eight bunks was made for a ski house in Warren.  What makes them particularly interesting is that all of the solid wood used in their construction was milled from Sugar Maple trees cut down on the house site during the preliminary site clearing process.  The logs were brought to our shop in Richmond, where they were milled into dimensional lumber by a portable band saw mill, then stickered and stacked to air dry.  After several months, we put the boards in our kiln to finish the drying process and used the resulting conditioned boards to build the beds.