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
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