Thread: Sleigh bed

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 soon

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
Bev

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
Bevan

That should look good Bevan!! Especially in NGR!!

Another interesting work in progress to follow.

looks like an interesting bed design

have pulled up a chair and will watch with interest

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.

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
Bev

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!

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
Bev

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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
Bev

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


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Bev

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.

Cheers

Excellent progress Bevan!!

Must make a set of those trammels. I have a couple of projects coming up where they will be handy.