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10th September 2012, 02:24 PM #1
Sleigh bed
Gidday
I have been commissioned to interpret a bed design particularly favoured by a client.
I have been working on the jigs on and off for the last few days trying to get my head around how it will come together. I decided to do a test on some crapiata pine so as to not waste valuable material. The bed proper will be constructed from New Guinea Rosewood.
The slats will be commercially available laminated curved slats and slat pockets. See Hafele for details.
After running the two test pieces though the jigs on the router table and resolving the rail intersection I came up with what you see in the photo below.
More later......
Enjoy
Cheers
Bevancatenary bed_02.JPGThere ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk!!
Tom Waits
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9th January 2013, 09:33 PM #2
Much, much later it seems.
After a few months of distractions, I have had a chance to get back to this.
The first photo shows the jig used to shape the larger legs for the headboard.
2. The grooves for the headboard slats routed in the test piece.
3. The jigs used to produce the curved tenons on the head and footboard slats. I had to make it hard for myself by using two different radiuses didn't I.
4. The stand offs for the router table to allow the machining of the convex and concave faces of the tenons.
5. The curved tenons.
6. The fit of the tenon into the curved mortice groove.
Cheers
More soonThere ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk!!
Tom Waits
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9th January 2013, 09:39 PM #3
A couple of shots of the proof of concept. Looks a bit shoddy I know, but it is only to get the jigging sorted before I machine the material proper.
Cheers
BevThere ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk!!
Tom Waits
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9th January 2013, 09:41 PM #4
This is the material I will be using. New Guinea Rosewood. Should look pretty nice I reckon.
More in the next couple of days.
I promise!!
Cheers
BevanThere ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk!!
Tom Waits
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10th January 2013, 07:30 AM #5Skwair2rownd
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That should look good Bevan!! Especially in NGR!!
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12th January 2013, 05:32 PM #6
Another interesting work in progress to follow.
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13th January 2013, 10:35 AM #7
looks like an interesting bed design
have pulled up a chair and will watch with interestregards
Nick
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17th January 2013, 09:58 PM #8
Got the frames dry assembled today.
There is a bit of colour difference between the boards so I am aiming to have the boards with the deeper colour and figure at the foot of the bed, and the paler material at the head end.
Tomorrow I will cut the curved mortices and determine the slat width. The slat material has been resawn for a few days and weighted down.
I also plan to develop the centre rail and cut the mortice in that as well.There ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk!!
Tom Waits
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17th January 2013, 10:05 PM #9
I'm not happy with the grain direction in one of the headboard legs. Doesn't run in an appropriate direction.I have a cunning plan to deal with that.
Sometimes you just gotta work with what you got, sometimes it's a design opportunity.
Cheers
BevThere ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk!!
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20th January 2013, 09:22 PM #10Skwair2rownd
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Looking good Bevan.
I agree with the idea of putting the darker timber at the foot.
Waiting to see the outcome of the cunning plan!
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21st January 2013, 10:58 AM #11
Today I will be routing the curved grooves in the legs to accept the slats. I'll try to take some pics of how I am going to achieve the curved tenons on the slats. Also got a couple of other things on my plate. Like putting some leather pads on some clamps, finishing some bookmarks and letter openers and making a device so I can check the bed frame for square.
Photos later.
Cheers
BevThere ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk!!
Tom Waits
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21st January 2013, 10:08 PM #12
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This is the slat material for the head and footboards. Resawn initially from 35mm boards down to 15mm. Restacked and rested in order so that book matching can take place later. This was done a few days ago.
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Grooves routed into the legs and the centre support member. The offset from the front is 17mm and the groove is about 6.5mm deep. This is the footboard, but the process has been replicated on the headboard as well.
This is the jig I made to rout the grooves._web_02.JPG_web_03.JPG
Here is the footboard frame dry assembled and clamped, gotta get the measurements from somewhere, no good just guessing._web_08.JPG
The centre support is going the sit in a mortice on the underside of the top rail and will connect with the lower rail in a shallow trench and plugged screws. This will be a visible connection so will need to be shaped and blended later.
I have marked out the tenon and the mortice socket and hopefully will get to get and fit that on wednesday. No photos of that at the moment, sorry.
Cheers
BevThere ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk!!
Tom Waits
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21st January 2013, 10:23 PM #13
Here are a couple of other things I have been up to today that are relevant to the project.
A device to check that the frame is square._web_09.JPG_web_10.JPG
This will work up to about 2 metres on the diagonal. This one is made from 10mm round ali bar, a block of jarrah, a couple of 6mm set screws and a couple of 1.2nails as pins. I had others but none the would do the span. Here are the others I have made previously._web_15.JPG
A friend of mine had made a couple of sets of trammel heads and was kind enough to give me a set, all I needed was some 10mm rod and funnily enough the offcut of the 4 metre length I bought to make the other tool seemed to be appropriate. I now have a trammel that will work to just over 3.6 Metres radius. Pretty handy._web_11.JPG_web_12.JPG_web_13.JPG_web_14.JPG
Cheers
BevThere ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk!!
Tom Waits
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24th January 2013, 07:43 AM #14
Here is the headboard with the centre rail dry installed. _web_04_07.JPG
The important thing for me here is that the offset of the slat grooves is exactly the same for the centre rail and the legs. A straight edge placed across the three elements reveals that that is certainly the case. Woo hoo!!
These are a few shots of the marking out for the mortice and tenon of the top intersection and the housing at the lower intersection.
The foot board is dealt with similarly._web_04_01.JPG_web_04_02.JPG_web_04_03.JPG_web_04_04.JPG_web_04_05.JPG_web_04.JPG_web_04_06.JPG
The next step is to machine the slats down to final size and create the curved tenons so that they can be fitted.
CheersThere ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk!!
Tom Waits
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28th January 2013, 01:51 PM #15Skwair2rownd
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Excellent progress Bevan!!
Must make a set of those trammels. I have a couple of projects coming up where they will be handy.
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