bnaboatbuilder
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My wife and daughter found a bed design they liked in a catalog. I adapted the catalog design to include large drawers underneath instead of flat on the floor. Updating her to a "big girl" room.
About 8 sheets of Columbia Purebond red oak ply. Chosen so the large grain would get accentuated with white liming wax on everything. Used 2 cans of the liming wax.
This gave me a good project to put the new Makita cordless track saw through its paces back in early October. Ran the saw on all the Festool rails I already have. Used pocket screws and dominos in the assembly. Dominos to mount the face frames, 6mm for the sideboard face and 4mm for the headboard face since the sliding door dados took away space. The sliding doors fit in table saw cut dados; they move smoothly with the liming wax. Put power strips in both the headboard and sideboard all out of sight. Drawers are about 2 ft wide, 3 ft deep, 1 ft high with 28" soft close slides. The three main modules just barely fit up our stairs to my daughter's room.
Last thing still to do is make the drawer pulls. Those will be plasma cut 16 ga steel rolled into a good finger pull shape. I'll leave the raw steel look and clear coat the pulls.
I've been using an inexpensive program for about a year on my Mac called Simple Cutting Software X to maximize all my sheet cutting.
I did all my edge banding with an iron. Every piece of wood is actually ply including the face frames and drawer fronts, those are edge banded as well pre-assembly. I had more than enough plywood and no reason to spend more money on red oak boards. Durability will be just fine. Girls are much easier on things than boys.
Pro5 with 180 grit was more than ample for final sanding the ply prior to waxing.
1 of the 7 total internal frames for main bed section.
Test fitting drawer front in face frame
Jig for mounting all the slides exactly the same.
Drawer boxes
Early assembly of sideboard
Sideboard prior to waxing
I shortened one drawer when laying out the cuts in the software to prevent going to another full sheet and that drawer would be nearest the headboard, potentially where more stuff gets thrown on the floor anyway. You know how kids are.
Headboard assembly
First test fit for the head and side
All the modules are screwed together for tight fit.
2 pieces of ply screwed down for the memory foam mattress base
Close-up of the white liming wax. I apply it with a fat round brush, wait an hour or more and buff it with clean cotton rags. Makes for a really nice luster and smooth.
About 8 sheets of Columbia Purebond red oak ply. Chosen so the large grain would get accentuated with white liming wax on everything. Used 2 cans of the liming wax.
This gave me a good project to put the new Makita cordless track saw through its paces back in early October. Ran the saw on all the Festool rails I already have. Used pocket screws and dominos in the assembly. Dominos to mount the face frames, 6mm for the sideboard face and 4mm for the headboard face since the sliding door dados took away space. The sliding doors fit in table saw cut dados; they move smoothly with the liming wax. Put power strips in both the headboard and sideboard all out of sight. Drawers are about 2 ft wide, 3 ft deep, 1 ft high with 28" soft close slides. The three main modules just barely fit up our stairs to my daughter's room.
Last thing still to do is make the drawer pulls. Those will be plasma cut 16 ga steel rolled into a good finger pull shape. I'll leave the raw steel look and clear coat the pulls.
I've been using an inexpensive program for about a year on my Mac called Simple Cutting Software X to maximize all my sheet cutting.
I did all my edge banding with an iron. Every piece of wood is actually ply including the face frames and drawer fronts, those are edge banded as well pre-assembly. I had more than enough plywood and no reason to spend more money on red oak boards. Durability will be just fine. Girls are much easier on things than boys.
Pro5 with 180 grit was more than ample for final sanding the ply prior to waxing.
1 of the 7 total internal frames for main bed section.
Test fitting drawer front in face frame
Jig for mounting all the slides exactly the same.
Drawer boxes
Early assembly of sideboard
Sideboard prior to waxing
I shortened one drawer when laying out the cuts in the software to prevent going to another full sheet and that drawer would be nearest the headboard, potentially where more stuff gets thrown on the floor anyway. You know how kids are.
Headboard assembly
First test fit for the head and side
All the modules are screwed together for tight fit.
2 pieces of ply screwed down for the memory foam mattress base
Close-up of the white liming wax. I apply it with a fat round brush, wait an hour or more and buff it with clean cotton rags. Makes for a really nice luster and smooth.
