Bed Time

[p111dom]

Continuing on from the side table and chest of drawers I made for my daughter last year she's now just about old enough to go into a full size bed so this has been my latest project.

 

[Paul Chapman]

Very nice. I bet your daughter will love those, and even more so because they were made by Dad.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[NeilO]

excellent dom, you daughter should be very pleased....


did you by chance stitch pic 3 together, or have you got one **** of a snipe problem with your thicknesser... :lol: :lol:


always envy your shop, not the tooling (i have enough myself, well almost ) but the size...quite a space you have..

 

[Mcluma]

very nice bed, she will enjoy it, but i would have made it higher, better for the mum when she makes the bed :wink:

 

[Lark]

nice... looks great... what would did you build it out of..

i want to make my self a single bed some time, but a really solid one with out a headboard....... was thinking or guessing anyway need a hardwood

i have some thick beech that would be great for legs need to cut them thinner and taper if wanted..... then get the wood for the frame at some point....

did you mortice the frame wood - onto the legs or just the bolts. never done that joint so rather not yet.

 

[p111dom]

Don't know what happened to that picture its the same on photobucket so I guess there was a glitch in the download. The whole bed is Pine apart from the top cappings which are Ash. Head and foot board was built using mortice and tennons and yes I did attach the rails with the bolts. I was going to build it higher but was worried that my daughter wouldn't be able to climb into it. Put it in her room today and despite it being low she still can't manage it. Doh! It's mainly because the mattress is so thick so at least it looks in proportion now.

 

[Tusses]

nice bed !

now you can make a little step stool so she can climb in and out

 

[DeanN]

Great looking bed, and similar in design to a flatpack one I bought for my daughter a few years ago - no doubt yours will outlast mine. She's now wanting a dressing table to match the bed, so I've been tasked with making her one. Can I ask what finish you applied to the pine and tops.

 

[OPJ]

Very nice bed, looks like a really neat, tidy job as well. Well done.

I'm also envious to see you have the space to assemble a bed in your 'shop! :twisted: :wink:

 

[p111dom]

Can I ask what finish you applied to the pine and tops.

The bed is pine but the chest and side table are a pine frame with MDF panels, Ash tops and ash drawers (MDF bottoms). The finish was 2 coats of MDF primer (just stuff from B&Q) and then about 4 coats of Dulux Diamond Satinwood which is pretty pricey to be honest. The Ash both with the drawer boxes and tops were origionally coated with General Finishes Danish Oil but I found it a bit light. They do a darker one but in the end I recoated with Rustins Danish Oil just because I had some. The chest of drawers I posted on my blog if its of interest.

 

[DeanN]

Thanks for the reply. I'll take a read of the blog later.

 

[davin]

Firstly I love the bed,
I want to make one for my daughter as well.
From what I understand the side rails are tenoned into the posts ?
but they also have knockdown fixings ?
So you had to drill through the post, then through the tenon then into the rail to attach to the bolt, is that right? just wondering how you accurately drilled through the tenon and what kind of kd fixings you used.
Hope you don't mind me asking.

davin

 

[p111dom]

Basically for the side rails it's a loose tennon. I made a jig to make a sort of vertical router table then pushed the rail end on into the bit at a pencil mark and then pushed it sideways to the next mark. This left a mortice about 2 inches long. It was all a bit on the iffy side of safe to be honest and I wouldn't do it this way again. On the head board posts I just used the routers fence to route a corresponding mortice and then machined up some stock to use as the tennon. Then with the head board clamped to the rail with the tennon in place I simply drilled all the way through once at the top and once at the bottom. You could leave it at that and just screw it together but I used machine screws held by cylindrical metal incerts in the rails. Like these

http://www.axminster.co.uk/product.asp?pf_id=364429&name=bed&user_search=1&sfile=1&jump=0

If I had to do it again I would just use a dowel jig to leave three loose dowels instead of tenons. That would have been much safer and simpler.