Hi ya'll, it's been a while since I've been around here (stupid grad school) but I'm planning on building a bed and I wanted to get your wise opinions on how I should go about it.
I want to build this bed:
http://www.cb2.com/family.aspx?c=400&f=2082
but $400 is a bit much. I'd rather get a planer. It looks simple enough for me to knock together.
But I'm having a bit of a time trying to figure out the best way to go about joining up the corners. I've never done mortise and tenons and to be honest they scare me - a little. But on the other hand I want to challenge myself a bit. Grow as a woodworker and all that. Also, I live in a rented third floor studio (yes, I've moved the workshop from my old apartment's balcony to my father's garage 100 miles away), so ideally, this bed would be easy to disassemble and carry up the narrow stairway to my apartment. And disassemble/reassemble again when I inevitably move in a year.
I was thinking of using a half lap joint for the horizontal pieces and pining them together with a tenon on the vertical piece. Would I need to glue this up? Or would it hold together with just friction. Remember, I spend far too much time at school in front of a computer for there to be too much 'acrobatics' taking place on the bed, so there shouldn't be a lot of stress on the joints. I was thinking also of doing a mortise and tenon brace in the middle of the long side of the bed.
Then, there is the straight forward, brute force way which would be to cut, drill pocket holes, and finish the bed in the workshop and just assemble it in the apartment. It seems to me that the wood would wear away after removing and reinserting the screws. How many times should I be able to do that?
So which way would you do it? The fancy woodworker way or the simpler get 'er done way. And more importantly, which one will not result in an unpleasant one foot drop in the middle of the night? Any thoughts on the minimum thickness of the boards? The original is steel
Thanks for your help.
Farhan
I want to build this bed:
http://www.cb2.com/family.aspx?c=400&f=2082
but $400 is a bit much. I'd rather get a planer. It looks simple enough for me to knock together.
But I'm having a bit of a time trying to figure out the best way to go about joining up the corners. I've never done mortise and tenons and to be honest they scare me - a little. But on the other hand I want to challenge myself a bit. Grow as a woodworker and all that. Also, I live in a rented third floor studio (yes, I've moved the workshop from my old apartment's balcony to my father's garage 100 miles away), so ideally, this bed would be easy to disassemble and carry up the narrow stairway to my apartment. And disassemble/reassemble again when I inevitably move in a year.
I was thinking of using a half lap joint for the horizontal pieces and pining them together with a tenon on the vertical piece. Would I need to glue this up? Or would it hold together with just friction. Remember, I spend far too much time at school in front of a computer for there to be too much 'acrobatics' taking place on the bed, so there shouldn't be a lot of stress on the joints. I was thinking also of doing a mortise and tenon brace in the middle of the long side of the bed.
Then, there is the straight forward, brute force way which would be to cut, drill pocket holes, and finish the bed in the workshop and just assemble it in the apartment. It seems to me that the wood would wear away after removing and reinserting the screws. How many times should I be able to do that?
So which way would you do it? The fancy woodworker way or the simpler get 'er done way. And more importantly, which one will not result in an unpleasant one foot drop in the middle of the night? Any thoughts on the minimum thickness of the boards? The original is steel
Thanks for your help.
Farhan
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