i'm building a bed for one of our kids and as usual i'm using construction lumber
just for a check i put the sides on the bottom pieces of legs and this seems a
bit low so i made some longer pieces and with this that seems about the right height for a
kid bed now i'm going to start gluing those legs together i used the side borders as a
spacer but i didn't want to get glue on it yet so i just put that piece of plastic in between
so these are the footboard legs the side pieces are going to go on
like this and then the footboard
goes in between like this and the footboard is a little bit taller than the side rails
so this is going to be the headboard and i want the top of it to have a nice
curve to it so i think i'll use this again
and then another curve on the bottom
so
this is a 26 inch bandsaw if i had a 40 inch bandsaw
i wouldn't have needed to flip the plywood upside down
i haven't got a bigger guide bearing for the slot cutter bit so i'm just going to put this block
right here to act as a guide
and then this chunk of wood here to help deflect the sawdust into the router
table
but before i glue that together i gotta round the edges on it
now i gotta trim these legs down to final size
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i just freehanded the location of those holes in the headboard
now i need to transfer those positions to the post so that the holes will line
up
so
well those dowels are a bit of a tight fit but my main goal is actually just to be able to mark
where i need to cut the slot for the plywood
and now lots of round overs for the edges of the posts before i glue them on
so and now working on the side rails that ledge i'm gluing on will support the slots
i'm adding the same half inch round over to all exposed edges of the side rails
i made a hardwood block with some holes in it as a drill guide for the screw holes for the side rails
i like to use smaller shorter screws when i'm doing a test assembly just
so i don't wear out the screw holes in the wood
the reason these slat assemblies overlap each other a little bit
is so they can support each other on the edge when the kids are jumping on the
bed next step three coats of oil-based varnish in the garage
and here it is set up i had to stick some pieces of plywood between the bed frame and
the mattress on this side to keep kurt from rolling off and crashing into this
room divider here only problem is now rachel wants me to make another bed to replace this one
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