A William Morris inspired Craftsmen bed........

[fritter63]

Started sanding and beveling the edges on all the pieces today. This is now like a Las Vegas lounge joke.... "I'll be here all week".

For the corner posts, I matched the bevel depth to the glue line of the QS veneer, and the line just disappears! Magic QS faces on all four sides! Then I just used 220 grit to lightly soften the remaining 45 degree edges.

UJK has these really nice "bench hooks", but I just modeled and 3D printed my own. Not as nice as the anodized aluminum, but I think they work just as well and only cost me $ 0.70 to print. Worked great for capturing those small corbels while I smoothed out the curves with an interface pad on the RO90.

 

[fritter63]

Progress today:

I used the cutoffs to make some "shorty" surrogate bed rails for holding the headboard and footboard in place once I get it all assembled. Basically so they're stand on their own in the fumigation tent.

Also started sanding the vertical slats.

Thumbs up on the new ETS 125 REQ!

 

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More slogging away with sanding and edges.

First time using the ETS 125 right angle attachment for edge sanding. Super nice and easy, why did I wait so long to get this sander?

Also put the bevel on all the slat edges.

Just need to sand and bevel all the rail members, then it'll be assembly time.

 

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There's always something very pleasing about a nice stack of machined parts!

 

[Vondawg]

Major (12 mm) joinery finished on the King bed frame, seen here leaning agains the queen size. I'm waiting for the deliver of the new Woodpeckers story stick system to mark out and join the slats on that one. Got plenty to do in the meantime.

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Looking great !

 

[fritter63]

First Footboard (Queen size) assembled today. Learned a lot, will be doing it in smaller chunks tomorrow.

Today I glued in the dominos on the vertical slats and then cleaned off the squeeze out so it wouldn't set on me, then glued them to the mid rail (bottom one) and then to the top rail, but dry fit the legs on the each side to insure alignment. Still too many glue joints at once. So for the rest I'll be gluing only one end of the slats with dry fit dominos in the other end (and legs on dry too) until everything set, that reduces the glue joint management by 50%.

 

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Queen bed assembled, ready for caps and corbels.

 

[fritter63]

Good progress this weekend! Both Queen and King are glued up except top caps and corbels. Going to do some final sanding to cleanup glue stains before attaching those.

Got smarter about clamping, I realized that with my incremental approach to glue up, I didn't need to use 8 foot long clamps to put the legs on, was able to remove the extra plastic pad on my small Bessey clamps and they fit between the slats, so was able to clamp the legs using pressure from the slats.

 

[fritter63]

A few quick posts to get caught up.... this is turning out to be like when I built our house.... I was always "Just two weeks" from being finished...

First, layout and joinery of the caps to the frames. Used the festool tracks with a 3D printed bracket that attaches to the Domino and registers in the rail to keep it tight against the edge.

Was going to do similar for the mating mortises on the frames, but after working through the logistics of clamping those rails on the side of my box beams (flush to the top so the track could sit on it), keeping them from rotating, and then realizing I still woudlnt' have good tipping support for the Domino, I realized it would be smarter to just set the frames on the box beams and plane a "spacer" to lift the domino to the center of the frame members. Turns out one of my cutoffs from the caps was actually perfect, so I just used that. Definitely within thousands of an Inch and that's all that matters. I did install the corbels first since they get a domino as well.

 

[fritter63]

Making the cleats which support the box springs......... Instead of screws, I am CNCing the rails to accept threaded inserts (1/4" x 20) and then the cleats get a matching countersunk hole CNC'ed into them.

I can post a video of this to YouTube if anyone is interested.

 

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Pictures of the caps all detailed out with sanded edges and bevels.