Friday, June 24, 2016

Sunday, June 19, 2016

Laundry hanger

Tonight I took a break from the bed to make this laundry hanger to go over my hope chest that I made a few years ago.

I used screws and angle brackets for quick joinery. Had I used mortise and tenon it would have taken a week to build.

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Thursday, June 9, 2016

Angled through mortise

Chiseling a through hole mortise sure looked allot easier on video. But because of the depth and angle, doing the work by hand is preferred.

Finding the angle

My wife has requested that our bed have a 6 inch rise so I needed a way to find the angles to keep the headboard and footboard square.

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Pairing lumber

I have gone through some lumber matching 2x3's for the heavy duty bed frame.  Two sets of boards will be three boards wide for the side rails and one set will be doubled up for the posts.