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TheOldFellow

On 12 Aug 2009 10:48:18 GMT
wrote:

We need a new double bed for a spare room and having looked at what
one can buy I'm wondering if making it myself would be sensible and/or
practical.

We want a 'pine' bed frame anyway so I don't need to use any strange
materials. From what I have seen of an existing pine double bed frame
we already have (and which is fairly close to what we want)
construction is pretty simple. I have a router (two actually) and
other basic woodworking tools and am not too bad at basic joinery.

So, are there any pitfalls? I guess if I 'over engineer' it a bit
compared with the bought one then it should be strong enough. The
only difficult bit as far as I can see is if I want round/turned posts
at the corners, is it possible to buy such things ready made?

Any other comments/ideas?

I was about to embark on this when I visited Ikea. I don't think I
could get the wood for the price of their beds. It's also a good place
to go to look at simple designs, structure sizes etc.. Take ear
defenders - they strangle cats in front of a mic instead of using Musak.

R.