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Thread: Single Bed in Jarrah & Redgum
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1st June 2010, 11:46 AM #1
Single Bed in Jarrah & Redgum
Hi all,
Here is my latest project - a single bed for my 5 year old. It is a classic design based on a one from woodsmith magazine. The main changes are the replacement of 3 slats with a panel with a routed flower motif design. The foot & head rails and all legs are made from salvaged redgum posts (air dried for at least 5 years). The rest is made from Jarrah. Quadruple tenons were used for the rails and were made with a Leigh FMT. The side rails were tenoned with an angle mag jig and japanese pull saw. While the mating mortises for these in the legs were made by hand with mortise chisels. These are then held to foot and head of the bed by bed bolts (from Lee Valley tools). Sanded to 1200 grit and then 3 coats of Danish oil.
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1st June 2010, 01:34 PM #2
Very nice. I see that the timber has a very nice red in it to match the pink sheets.
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1st June 2010, 02:11 PM #3
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1st June 2010, 02:19 PM #4
Very nice job
Well done
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1st June 2010, 10:25 PM #5
very nice
many restful nights to be had on that pieceMy blog: ~ for the love of wood ~ - http://theloveofwood.blogspot.com/
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1st June 2010, 11:08 PM #6Skwair2rownd
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Beautiful!! Love the rich red colour of the Jarrah.
One very happy little girl too!.
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1st June 2010, 11:10 PM #7SENIOR MEMBER
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Lovely. Did you carve that pattern into the end by hand?
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1st June 2010, 11:19 PM #8" making wood good"
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well done, should be together for a few more years
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2nd June 2010, 12:05 AM #9
I'd better not let my little girl see that one, or she would curl around my arm and put the hard word on.
Pure magic for someone you love.
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2nd June 2010, 01:02 PM #10
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2nd June 2010, 05:31 PM #11
Good work, and one very proud little girl. I'll bet she was excited before the first sleep.
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2nd June 2010, 08:54 PM #12
Real nice bit of work there
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5th June 2010, 10:59 PM #13Intermediate Member
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This is stunning. Do you reckon you could have managed without the leigh? I'm interested because after looking at the price of beds today for our daughter I am talking with hubbie about him making one.
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7th June 2010, 10:29 AM #14
The leigh FMT jig made the whole process easier and less time consuming for the foot and head rails. A festool domino would have been even better for making foating tenons especially for the side rails. These cannot be done easily with a FMT because routing of the tenon needs to done with the workpiece clamped vertically. That is, the FMT would need to placed about 2 metres up on a high platform for the side rails.
BTW, this bed was started on April 9th and finished on May 23rd. Many evenings, weekends, and school holidays. I would say the equivalent of 14 x 8 hour days - so factor that in when you get hubbie to make one. I am not trying to discourage you, but I also have a fully equipped and dedicated home workshop. You will need that to get the excellent result at the end. That is why these custom-made beds cost so much to buy.
Good luck
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7th June 2010, 04:45 PM #15Intermediate Member
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Thanks for that information. We actually want something a bit simpler ie not big piece at the foot but DH has made the dining table and we sort of have a dedicated workspace with a fair bit of equipment if you count that we haven't had the cars in the garage for the last two years due to the slabs drying out to make our dining room chairs!
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