Drawer box progress

Carcase parts cut to size, lots of biscuit slots cut.

Ass'y table drawer box

Assembly table progress

As drawn: a box of drawers supports the torsion box (top). The legs are long, skinny, plywood boxes which nest into each other to allow telescoping. Spaced thru-holes will house pins to lock the table at different heights. Depending on how the legs are fixed to the top, this would enable tilting the top. A tilting top might be nice to have: drawing, having gravity hold stuff down against a rail mounted on the edges of the top, etc .
A lift (not pictured) will manage the heavy lifting. Harbor Freight, $99.

Assembly Table: torsion box top

Jointed 2x4's on leveled sawhorses and a stack of parts.

Outside frame and long ribs done.

All but the last row of short ribs in.  The last row of short ribs needs to be trimmed a little - apparently the SU calculations weren't exact, as the "~" in "~3 13/16" implied.

Some more pics

...and since it's Mother's Day: that blur birthed me.

Queen-sized arched bed

YouTube slideshow HERE

Link-tacular, and blogging

I started this blog to host pics of projects and tools to add to my posts at the woodworking forum I haunt. I started posting Sketchup models for my sister to review when I started her bed. To quell her badgering, I started adding progress updates - I wrote posts "to" her. Occasionally I add something I don't want to forget, or so I can access it from any computer I might be using.

Recently, my HS class blog had a post about monitoring traffic to the website using www.123stat.com. I thought it might be useful for the business website which Melissa runs, so I installed the tracking on this site to fiddle with it.

I was very surprised to see that people occasionally visit here - and even more surprised to find that the tracking software identified external links to this blog.

There's a Toolcrib article which quotes much of a post I made on the forum, and there's another blogger who linked to me. In both cases, had I not been tracking I wouldn't have had a clue.

Another suprise:
In the past 7 days, this page has been viewed from the UK, Portugal, Algeria, Belgium, "EU" (not specified), Canada, and from cities all around the US (especially in Texas).

I've always viewed this blog as a picture hosting site, notepad, and place to keep my "client" up-to-date. I know my ISP is not jammed with traffic clamoring to this blog, but it still feels a bit odd to think that people would land here.

The world is really getting small.

...and bored, apparently.

I'm a little concerned that I'm making a "bloggy" post here and vow to never do it again. No one's going to read all this crap.

Round table

... from a few different angles. This is about as simple as a round table can be. Could add a shelf or stretchers.

CS strip ripping jig

...to rip a large number of 2 1/2" strips for torsion box ribs from a full sheet of MDF (impractical to do on my table saw). Since the strips are narrower than the shoe-blade distance on the circular saw, this "fence board" can just be clamped on instead of drilling the CS shoe and screwing.

Torsion Boxes

Delivery

Noting date of bed delivery. Hopefully some pics of it in it's new home will follow. Hopefully it doesn't fall apart.

Wierd spraying issue

Note the "stripe," which is where the grain direction changes on the slip-match.

Spraying

Hard to picture in a dark garage. Note that everything is hanging from the ceiling. Luckily, some of the plaster from the freshly installed hanging hooks dropped into the wet finish.

Flaws are starting to show up.

Bed progress

Note that these are sitting in a clean (or largely emptied of stuff, rather) garage, and there's a compressor in the background. Hopefully they'll get shot tomorrow.

Skin Candy shelves

Started cutting Saturday, finished woodworking Sunday, painted Monday, installed Tuesday. Not "fine woodworking," but I have a happy wife.

Have to sneak this in

... prior to bed completion

Equipment failure!!!

Noting date for shoulder injury.
Milwaukee 5625 received yesterday.

Finials

The sketchup model
Yet another jig - this one to clip the corners on the finial blanks. It will index off the table saw fence.
The jig in action making the last clip on this piece.
All the finial blanks' corners clipped. Note that each stack is a different sized square, and of different thickness. The dowels in the foreground which the blanks will be stacked on are the wooden handles of the foam brushes used to do the finishing on the rest of the bed.
...and another jig. This one to make the chamfers on the top of the finial. It also indexes from the fence enabling very fine tweaking of cut depth.
The chamfer jig in action.
Four sides chamfered, four to go...




Routing small pieces is a potentially dangerous job, so I completely ignore feed rate for safety - which led to the cuts burning a little. Whatever scraping/sanding doesn't fix, I'm sure black ink will. Here's the rough results stacked on a dowel.

Progress update

We need a bigger house.

Next: sand this out with 220, 320, final coat of satin Waterlox. Before that, I'll probably do the finials and torsion box platform.

Home stretch

A 2x4 caul with some scraps to hold it onto the leg. The caul is shaped such that it will flatten out under clamping pressure to distribute the pressure evenly.


A 2x3 deadman on each end of the 2x4 caul allows the clamps to 'reach' the caul. Note the straps holding the pipe clamps to the deadman.


Leg posts glued to headboard panel. Biscuits keep the legs aligned to the panel front-to-back. The blue tape holds some cork onto the surface of the leg under the caul to prevent the caul marring the leg (the leg is sanded and ready for finish prior to assembly).
Each pipe clamp is two shorter pipes joined together with a threaded union to make clamps long enough - the headboard + cauls + deadmen means the clamps have to be over 6' long.
There's significantly more time involved in fiddling the crazy clamping gear together than actual woodworking here.

Next the headboard will be stained and topcoated - then the torsion boxes, finials, and it's done.