Tenon widths

Tonight I cut the tenon widths for the headboard and footboard

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.

Sideboards

I have made two side rails to fit the posts

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.

Legs glued

I planed and glued up the legs for the heavy duty bed

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.