• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Raised bed project

Thanks Ian, a jig is an excellent idea. If anyone has any reccomendations for making or buying a jig I would appreciate it. The Kreg and Rockler ones have some really bad reviews.
 
More dry fitting this time with pocket screws along with the dominos.

2022-05-06_03-00-25 by my0771, on Flickr

I decided to add some dominos along the top of the side panels / drawer fronts to aid matching them before I knew what had happened I had a row of 10 holes :) The bed rail on the tight setting and the unit panel on the mid setting.

2022-05-07_05-56-31 by my0771, on Flickr

I spent the sunny weekend priming everything with acyrlic primer, Today I have glued up the pieces to make the leg extensions.

Being honest I did have second thoughts about buying the domino machine, Once you have used one it is incredible how quickly you can join things together.
 
Yes Andy all outside good job I made the deck level :D although the bedroom is huge I prefer to work at home.
If anyone has any advice on drawer runners I need to decide if I can fit them when the side panels are flat on the bench.
I have faced all of the plywood side panels with painted pine that will show when the drawers are open (more dominos)
The legs are the main joint between the sides and end panels.
 
A quick update, Everything has had a coat of primer. I have fitted the supports along the top and bottom edges of the drawer sides, which can be seen in this picture.

IMG_1999 by my0771, on Flickr

In order to get the maximum support I have cut some corner pieces which have been pocket holed in place.

IMG_2011 by my0771, on Flickr

I have made some leg extensions which will be added next.
Still unsure about fitting the drawer runners, there will be a 30mm plinth along the top bottom of the sides. The total height it 580mm so the drawer fronts will be 520mm less kerf. This will leave around 490mm for the two drawer boxes.
If anyone can see any issues with this please let me know.
 
Now the sun has come out it is time to move the bed frame inside :lol: typical

IMG_2057 by my0771, on Flickr

This is alomst its final position some undercoating to do. As I wanted the whole thing to be removable it is pocket screws and doninos.
Drawer boxes and fronts are next.
 
The frame is now assembled, I started the drawer boxes about 10 days ago.

2022-06-12_09-00-13 by my0771, on Flickr

It may have been a mistake to build the outer frames and then add the bases but as we were adding paper to the inside of the box this seemed like a good idea at the time.
 
I dont know if anyone is still reading this, But as I am almost finished I thought I would post the next few pictures.

IMG-2171 by my0771, on Flickr

It looks like I managed to get the runners in the right places.
I am painting the drawer fronts at the moment and will fit them once they are dry.

The dust cover is 6mm ply which needs to have a joint along the 2022mm edge has anyone got a good method
 
9fingers":3h4qa5zf said:
Does this join rest on the central bare wood piece of what looks to be 2 x 1?
If so that would appear adequate so maybe I don't understand the question.

Bob
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I imagine the ply butts up to that 2x1, I would put another bit of ply in the gaps under the 2x1 to form a rebate and then small screws or Pink stuff the 6mm ply on top.
Oh yes, we are following with interest have no fear on that!
 
Thanks guys
The 2x1 is part of the original bed, it supports the slats the mattress sits on. There is a 10mm gap between that and the centre drawer support below it.
In an ideal world the bed would be a multiple of 600mm but it is 1550mm x 2022mm I have one piece of ply already cut 600mm x 2022mm (600mm is easy to get in the car). I might try to get a 950mm piece in the car so there is only one joint. I could cut some strips of the 6mm and glue it together.
 
Almost there :D The drawer fronts are painted and ready to fit the dust protector and slats are now fitted.
Adding the mattress raises the bed height considerably, But it is exactly as designed.
There is just over 1000 litres of space in the drawers.

2022-06-30_06-26-09 by my0771, on Flickr
 
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