i need to build another bed for the kids and for this one i'm going to try to build
a heart-shaped headboard the headboard is going to sort of approximate a squished heart
and before i cut this part off i drew that top of the heart using my beam compass to draw those arcs
and then i thought i'd glue on a little bit of extra so i don't have this missing corner here
and this piece is going to be the bottom of that heart
and i realized when i'm going to route this profile here this is going to chip out on me
so i'm going to glue on a block of wood just to support that while i'm routing it
foreign
still got a bit chipping out but on the other side i cut backwards and nothing chipped out
this fence got in the way for routing the middle of these curves so i'm just going to take it off
for cutting that little bit now take this out as well for better dust collection
the key here is just to have enough airflow
and now cutting a slot to accept the plywood panel on
i need to add an offset for the depth of the slot i always try to keep my scraps as a continuous
piece of wood because you never know when you're going to need a piece of wood exactly that shape
and then gluing together the posts
i transferred the hole locations from the headboard onto the post just using a square
and a pencil and then marked how far from the edge with the caliper and then drilled them
also a slot for this and now i can dry fit this together
on the back this headboard comes very close to the edge of the post so i have to mark
where the headboard ends so i know how far to cut the roundovers
that joins up nicely here and here except for here i went a bit too far
i routed a half inch round over on all the other edges of the posts
took a bit of banging but that joint is
closed
making the sides of the beds was pretty straight forward so i didn't feel much of that
and here's the slots in the bed which are in three groups to help maintain the
spacing
i guess some of the headboard detail got hidden but the important thing is harriet likes it
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