Sigle Beds

[gwaithcoed]

I needed to make two single beds for the spare room (grandchildrens room)

Legs laminated from 28 mil oak.

Bottom of bed had pieces glued on to give extra stability

Dry fit with the headboard

And with the panels in place

Side rails made from parana pine.
10 mil studding fixed into rail using plastic padding.

Would have liked to have counter bored the holes to hide the fixing nuts but having no lathe to turn any covers settled for this.

Slats fitted, timber from Wickes. Spacers glued and fixed with brads.

The Grandchildren love them.


Alan

 

[CYC]

Very nice. I bet the children love them.
Are they in the same room? It would look nice together.

 

[woodbloke]

Really good looking beds here - I see though that Axminster do a set of bed bolts now which would have been an alternative way of doing it - Rob

 

[Lord Nibbo]

Really really lovely beds. \/ What type of oak is it? I'm on a quest to make an oak sideboard/Hifi cabinet but cant make my mind up if to use American white oak or not.

 

[gwaithcoed]

CYC wrote

Are they in the same room? It would look nice together.

Yes,both in the same room, bags of fun both grandchildren are down together.

Lord Nibbo, Its American red oak. Had a pallet of offcuts fron ebay. although there are quite a lot of different shades.

Alan.

 

[Paul Chapman]

Great job, Alan =D> =D>

Paul

 

[woodbloke]

Lord Nibbo wrote:

American white oak

I made a kitchen door in this stuff some time ago, I bought the oak from Yandles (kiln dried). It was horrible, nasty stuff to use as it kept on splitting :x . This is caused, I think, by it being dried too quickly in the kiln with the result that thousands of tiny fissures, cracks and splits appear. I would go for air dried oak (cheaper anyway) and give it a further period of conditioning in the workshop before use. I know that I won't be using any more kiln dried oak if I can help it - Rob