Thread: Bed completed

I intended to put drawers underneath but the bed is too high (top of matress is 700mm above the floor) so I'm going to have to chop the legs down.

Cost: $180 for the radiata pine, $25 for the polyurethane and stain, $20 for the screws, $700 for the mattress.

Things I learnt:

- I need to take more care with my biscuit joints: I must have moved the jointer settings during use because the planks making up the headboard did not join up as neatly as normal
- sanding with ROS doesn't leave lots of tiny sanding circles (which I'd feared)
- 19mm dowel joints work well on large projects and give a robust feel
- I should have used more sanding sealer on the end grain to give a smoother finish
- fittings allowing easy disassembly (cross-dowel joints and threaded inserts) work well

It looks fantastic. Great effort mate.

Well done. Is it comfortable to sleep on?

Nice routing job on the headboard. Very nice.

Cheers

Eeeeeeexcellent! I bought kingsize wool underlay/down duvet/covers/sheets etc in the Myer sale.... winter 2003. Bought the slats for the base.....in 1998.

'Gunna' make that sucker any time soon!

Good show for finishing something, and a top job.

Now that you've saved all those $$$$$, you can justify buying some TOOLS YEAH BABY

Shagadelic.

Looks great Tony . The colour is a good match with the floor too .


Peter

Originally Posted by tony2096

(top of matress is 700mm above the floor)

Gees, dont fall out of bed what ever you do. :eek:

Al

Thanks for the comments.


Woodborer: yes, the bed is very comfortable - no squeaks or rattles. Will let you know how it wears in 10 years time

One day I will progress to finer wood, but at the moment I am still honing my skills with pine/plywood and grappling with the scary world of staining!

Great effort, Tony. Thanks for sharing.

As a short ***** i'd have to take a running leap just to get on the thing.

Good luck as you enter the scary world of staining. :eek: :mad: :confused: