‘Recipe for a good night in the sack.’

‘Here’s a little recipe for you…

4 parts cattle yards
2 parts house stumps
1 part old bridge
1 part fence post
Time, time and more time

1. Mill, dress and sand old redgum until you are sure it’s normal to blow out red lumps when you sneeze.
2. Plug cracks and holes where the bolts went through the posts using a mix of epoxy, fine redgum dust and a pinch of ground charcoal.
3. Sand again until ‘normal’ (refer part 1).
4. Cut the frame for head and end feature, router grooves for joints, bevel.
5. Cut birdseye feature. Router grooves, shape, sand until ‘normal’.
6. Pre-drill mortises before chiselling by hand (unless you want a real workout).
7. Mark out and cut tenons.
8. Shape legs on bandsaw, sand until ‘normal’.
9. Cut vertical slats, drill dowel holes, flute dowel.
10. Over a few nights, systematically glue.
11. Purchase slat timber and create base.
12. Weld up solid brackets so bed can be pulled apart.
13. Finish with estapol, take inside and assemble.
14. Add wife on moderate heat.’

‘I am currently studying bushfire behaviour, otherwise my profession is as a forester.’