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!

 

[fritter63]

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.

 

[luvmytoolz]

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%.