Just take a look atthis thread!Mike made a wonderful headboard for his daughter, quarter-sawn read oak, and applied a wonderful finish!

UC900 freud raised panel shaper set made the raised panel and rail and stiles. The UC210 profile in the set made the raised panel.

The panel, when used with 3/4″ stock is proud of the rail and stile by 1/8″. Why the set does not allow for flush panels is beyone me. In order to do this I have to use 5/8″ wood but then you do not get 100% of the UC210 profile as it is made for 3/4″ panels. Only solution is to use a 5/8″ profile raised panle cutter and a back cutter. Kind of defeats the purpose of buying the UC900 set to me.

I will be trying some 5/8 cutters in a Freud RP1000 insert tooling raised panel cutter head and use that with a back cutter. I will post up some results.

The stiles are joined to the bed posts with mortise and tenon joinery. Mortises were cut with a Jet mortiser and tenons were made on the table saw with a dado stack and a couple cuts on the bandsaw.

Capitals (tops of the bed posts) were copied from a design in the book “Beds” by Jeff Miller.

Finish is ML Campbell cinnamon stain hand rubbed applied and top coat is sprayed Magnamax pre cat lacquer.

Mike,

You are right – it is interesting why the raised panel set forces the issue for flush panels. That is exactly (I think) the reason that some of the Sommerfeld router bit sets have a back cutter, but I could be wrong, of course.

The finish on the headboard is truly outstanding! I love the cinnamon color. That is a dye, correct? I assume so, since it does not appear to have obscured the grain. WONDERFUL does not even start to do it justice!