sploo
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We had an old pine framed bed that was no longer required, but a look on eBay suggested the resale value was low.
Our current shoe storage solution is a mess (see below), and we need somewhere for our ever-growing small person to hang her coats.
I had a bunch of varnished frame parts, and a stack of rails that supported the mattress:
A bit of tinkering with Sketchup indicated that I could build something suitable if I formed some sheets from the existing parts:
I cut the frame parts down, including resawing the longer square posts, and with a fair bit of glue and dominos, I had a set of parts of roughly the required size. I hand planed off as much of the old varnish as I could, before throwing them through the thickness planer (about 29mm resulting thickness):
For various reasons I decided it would make more sense to do it as a "knock down" system - 10mm dominos to help align the parts, and threaded inserts to hold it together.
The top and bottom horizontal parts were made ~1mm oversize at each end, and after a dry fit with dominos I drilled the holes for the bolts and threaded inserts. I then trimmed the overhang with a router and rounded over the edges:
Next I cross cut the mattress support slats. Some of the slats are slightly different widths (69-70mm) and I didn't want to plane them. It's not a problem visually, but referencing a pair of dominos from the edges would cause problems vs the holes I would cut into the carcase; so instead I made a simple jig from some of the bed frame scraps that fit over the end of a slat and allowed me to make two pencil marks of consistent spacing for the 6mm dominos:
I then marked up the cutting positions for the dominos on the carcase, using the relevant piece of wood from my jig to ensure each pair of domino holes would be cut at the same spacing as all the slats (so it doesn't matter which slat ends up in which position). The distance from the bottom of the DF 700 base plate to the cutting bit is 15mm, so the lines drawn are 15mm below the desired domino centre line. The 'T' jig ensures the cuts are all on the same line, and there are pencil marks for each hole that I use to line up the centre mark on the bottom of the base plate (the jig is clamped down when cutting - not shown in the photos):
A final "dry" fit outside. A few clamps, and the "persuader" (seen on the right of the shot) were required to coax that many domino'd parts together:
I then dismantled the parts and used several coats of water based floor varnish, before then glueing the dominos into the ends of the slats and vertical carcase parts.
Finally, in place:
I'll put some coat hooks on the upper slat on the right side of the frame for our aforementioned small person, but we haven't chosen them yet.
Our current shoe storage solution is a mess (see below), and we need somewhere for our ever-growing small person to hang her coats.
I had a bunch of varnished frame parts, and a stack of rails that supported the mattress:
A bit of tinkering with Sketchup indicated that I could build something suitable if I formed some sheets from the existing parts:
I cut the frame parts down, including resawing the longer square posts, and with a fair bit of glue and dominos, I had a set of parts of roughly the required size. I hand planed off as much of the old varnish as I could, before throwing them through the thickness planer (about 29mm resulting thickness):
For various reasons I decided it would make more sense to do it as a "knock down" system - 10mm dominos to help align the parts, and threaded inserts to hold it together.
The top and bottom horizontal parts were made ~1mm oversize at each end, and after a dry fit with dominos I drilled the holes for the bolts and threaded inserts. I then trimmed the overhang with a router and rounded over the edges:
Next I cross cut the mattress support slats. Some of the slats are slightly different widths (69-70mm) and I didn't want to plane them. It's not a problem visually, but referencing a pair of dominos from the edges would cause problems vs the holes I would cut into the carcase; so instead I made a simple jig from some of the bed frame scraps that fit over the end of a slat and allowed me to make two pencil marks of consistent spacing for the 6mm dominos:
I then marked up the cutting positions for the dominos on the carcase, using the relevant piece of wood from my jig to ensure each pair of domino holes would be cut at the same spacing as all the slats (so it doesn't matter which slat ends up in which position). The distance from the bottom of the DF 700 base plate to the cutting bit is 15mm, so the lines drawn are 15mm below the desired domino centre line. The 'T' jig ensures the cuts are all on the same line, and there are pencil marks for each hole that I use to line up the centre mark on the bottom of the base plate (the jig is clamped down when cutting - not shown in the photos):
A final "dry" fit outside. A few clamps, and the "persuader" (seen on the right of the shot) were required to coax that many domino'd parts together:
I then dismantled the parts and used several coats of water based floor varnish, before then glueing the dominos into the ends of the slats and vertical carcase parts.
Finally, in place:
I'll put some coat hooks on the upper slat on the right side of the frame for our aforementioned small person, but we haven't chosen them yet.
