What's been going on in the shop recently

[DaveO]

Just so y'all don't think that all I do is post on this site, I figured I better show off some woodworking (if you can call it that)
My dreams of making my wife and I a bed were smashed a few weeks ago when my MIL found at an auction a really nice headboard/foot-board set at a steal of a bid ($100). She gave it to us to have. So I don't have to make it myself :crybaby2:
Well this story does have a woodworking twist to it. As is always said, you get what you pay for and my MIL paid for a headboard/foot-board and nothing else :eusa_doh:There was no side rails or mattress support of any kind.
This is what she got (minus the missing pieces) -
http://www.potterybarn.com/products/p7905/index.cfm?pkey=gTHMBRW
It's a metal bed, so I had to come up with some way to make the side rails and support system out of materials I could work with...wood.
The bed's stock metal side rails bolted to the HB/FB with 2 bolts per side, and the box spring sat on top of the rails. So I had to devise a method that I could through bolt my wood side rails to the metal HB/FB and still keep everything in line. That proved to be the most difficult part. I made a jig that helped me drill plumb and true into the end grain of the 76" long rails by making the location of the bolt holes with dowel centers on a scrap piece of the rail stock. I Drilled the holes in that piece on my DP to help guide me in lining up the holes that I drilled by hand in the end of the rails.
Enough yip-yap and onto the pics. The side rails are 1" thick Red Oak, and the rest of the support system is some soft Maple I got from Jeff. It ain't pretty but it works -

And the final product.....

Now I just need to make a step-stool for my barely 5' wife to be able to get in it. The top of the mattress is around 32" high :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Thanks for looking, comments and questions welcomed

Dave

 

[Jon]

Looks good Dave. I like it.

 

[TracyP]

Dave that just goes to show that you can incorporate woodworking into anything if you put enough thought into it. Looks like some quality ww to me.

 

[RandyJ]

That looks like an excellent solution to the problem, Dave. You did a great job. Don't know why you said it wasn't pretty. I think it's beautiful!

 

[cpowell]

That's a very strong looking frame. Nice work to tie it into the headboard/footboard. I like your solution. :icon_thum

Did you add the center legs to take some load off the corners (keep them from digging too far into the carpet)?

Chuck

 

[ToeNailer]

Dave; Great job on the bed frame. Love how you tied it to the headboard.
Jim

 

[Ray Martin]

Dave,

Looks like it turned out great. Had you already purchased any of the materials for the bed that you were going to make? What kind of a design did you have in mind?

Ray

 

[DaveO]

Did you add the center legs to take some load off the corners (keep them from digging too far into the carpet)?

Chuck

I wasn't worried about the carpet, I was concerned about too much bounce when it wasn't needed :lol::lol::lol:
Without the center legs there was too great of a potential for sag. It's a king sized bed.
Dave

 

[erasmussen]

It does look strong enough
I like the way you set the legs:icon_thum

 

[DaveO]

Dave,

Looks like it turned out great. Had you already purchased any of the materials for the bed that you were going to make? What kind of a design did you have in mind?

Ray

Thanks Ray. I had bought a bunch of QSWO (probably not enough) from Jeff a while back with intentions of making a bed from it. This is the design that my wife and I first decided upon -

It's a Thos. Moser (one of my most favorite furniture makers)

Dave

 

[toolferone]

Wow, looks good. It is way different then what was there before. My parents bed is tall also. I don't get it, it just leaves more room underneath for bigger monsters.

 

[NCPete]

actually, you would have eventually suffered a critical failure in your slats without that center support. King size beds like to try to destroy bed frames without the center support because of the split foundation. that places a lot of stress on the slats, even when no one is in the bed. bounce is only a short term issue, as there is very little bounce when the bed is back on the floor - in the middle at least - those rails do look strong enough to survive just about anything.

 

[NCPete]

that does look nice Dave... Thos. Moser is among my favorites, too. Haven't perused the site in a while, I have gotten the catalog a couple times, tho, some of my favorite wood/furniture porn.

 

[DaveO]

My parents bed is tall also. I don't get it, it just leaves more room underneath for bigger monsters.

:rotflm::rotflm::rotflm:

There really isn't much space underneath the bed, only about 6½" under the side rails. The rest is the box spring and mattress. Can't let the LOML feel that pea :roll:


Dave

 

[NCPete]

This is the one I have been considering, the Vita Bed.

 

[NCPete]

:rotflm::rotflm::rotflm:

Can't let the LOML feel that pea :roll:


Dave

Then maybe you should wear Depends??? :gar-La;


oops, different pee:embarrassed:

 

[DaveO]

This is the one I have been considering, the Vita Bed.

There was a really awesome thread on Woodnet about a lady woodworker who made a bed very similar to that design. I think it was her first project :new_shock:new_shock

http://www.forums.woodnet.net/ubbth...mber=2538816&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

Dave

 

[NCPete]

Thanks Dave for the link, that provides some great solutions to my construction/design questions.

 

[toolman]

Great job on main part of the bed! :icon_chee

 

[JimmyC]

Nice job on the bed rails Dave,

But instead of making the side rails out of oak and painting them black, couldn,t you just have made them out of ebony:lol::lol::lol:. The support system looks great, that bed should last you through at least a couple more kids:lol:.

Jimmy