I have partially shaped the spindles that will suspend the cradle, but I haven't quite decided yet what I want to do with them. You can see in the photo above, the through mortise that will will hold the rail. I'm going to laminate the rail from the cherry and some walnut. I also bought a walnut dowel to do the pinning, so the walnut should offset the cherry. It won't be as obvious as the cherry ages, but it will look sharp initially.
For reasons that ought to be obvious, I want the head of the spindle to look a bit like the headstock of a guitar. I am thinking of putting dowel pins along the "headstock" to suggest tuning pegs, but we'll see. It might be altogether too cute. At any rate, hope to finish it next weekend.
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