New Bed - Completed

 It's done and in place, and it even feel good, we'll see if we get a good nights sleep if it's good or not. I applied two coats of white pickle stain to the main parts and painted the support boards and the slats white. I also rubbed on a polish to help protect it a bit.  It's a much needed improvement over the one I built 24 years ago in an old shed with hand tools and some power tools. I guess it was about time. Here is a before and after look, I still need to make a new end table so more work for me in the shop.  

What we had, a very solid bed frame.

What we have now, also very solid and much brigher.

New Bed - Part 2

Over the past few days I have glued up several parts, and now it's done to the pre-paint\stain phase. I added support brackets for the three center rails which are 1½ x 2½. The 14 slats are 3 inches wide and 7/8 thick, plenty of support and it looks great.

Frame assembled and support rails in.

All 14 slats in place.

Another look, and it looks great.

New Bed

 I can't believe it's been over 3 1/2 years since I made anything worth posting on this site, time for a post. We have been thinking about a new bed for a while, the one we have I made in '96 in an old shed with had tools and some power tools. Things are a bit different today with the shop I have now. I still have some work ahead of me but I wanted to show how things are going. I am using old pine boards I got this fall for a Gentlemen who isn't doing much woodworking anymore and was willing to let these treasures go. I started with rough cut 1 x12 x8 foot long pine boards, I had to dress about 16 of them to find enough clear pine for the head and foot boards, there was a bit of knotty pine in there. So I dressed the lumber, cut to rough dimensions, then to finished dimensions. I had a bit of glue up to do for the headboard, legs, top rails, side rails and support boards for the slats. Oh did I mention this will have slats and only a mattress, no box spring. Here is how it's going, so far.

Here is the rough cut lumber I started with.

After the first run through the planner,
 I got 7 bags of shavings

Cut to size and 4 more bags of shavings.

The legs are glued up, these are the top rails.

Side rails glued up, a little clean up required.

Dry run of the legs and rails.

Mortis attached for the drill press set up.

Footboard dry fit, now to cut the top rail.

Headboard dry fit done.

One more dry fit, it looks great,
now to tapper the legs.