THE JESSICA
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I have four lovely daughters and Parkinson's disease As I began to get
shakier and shakier, the youngest daughter became more and more concerned about the making of her cradle. Fortunately at the time I was enrolled in a woodworking class at Southern Utah University and I needed a project to do. I designed and made this oak pedestal cradle. The stiles were a bear to cut out even with an overhead router and gluing the double doweled ends was preposterous The cradle is finished in provental oak and sprayed with a polyurethane finish. One unique feature of the cradle is that the basket lifts off the pedestal and sits on floor where the design of the end pieces allows the cradle to free stand and rock. There is an extension that swings out from the bottom of the cradle when it is in its free standing mode which acts as a stop as well as a handy way for the mother to rock the cradle with her foot. |