The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Making a Stovebolt Bed Cutting your own bed wood?

My bed was in pretty bad shape and after a few years of ply on top finally rotted out enough to drop my scooter onto the frame one day.
I was planning on ordering a kit and in the mean time popped a steel 76 bed on.
The oak and pines just don't appeal to me so I'm looking for something different, I did find a nice site that has the pattern for the pieces.

It's at GMC Pauls
http://www.gmcpauls.com/47-72_BedWood_Info.htm

If you go to my site at the bottom you can see the cherry wood and purpleheart wood that I used for the bed of my 53. You can do it if you have some woodworking tools. Much cheaper than the kits. Also you can have a choice of many different hardwoods.

I've setup my router bench to do the strip seat gooves in a single pass. I'll be starting as soon as I get my wood or grass in my case. I decided that since I call her teagreen I'll be using bamboo as my bed wood. A local lumber yard has a source for cultured strand which is supposed to be the hardest bamboo board. Fingers crossed.

I am thinking of removing the metal floor on my 1969 Chev longhorn and replace it with wood. Can you tell me how wide the wood needs to be, how thick and if the wood fit into each other or if there is a gap that the metal strips cover?

Thanks

Hi Waggy - nice to see someone from Surrey on the board. I did my own bedwood in my '40. Pretty straightforward job, although a bi time consuming. Not sure how your bed details compare to mine but you are welcome to have a look