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Pencil post bed update #4
I got back on the bed I'm building over the past week and made some more
progress. Two other tricks I learned from Charles Neal are building a collar for the rails and routing the tenons with a straight bit and sealing the nuts for the bed bolts in the rails with bondo....Yup bondo. You never have to fuss with them again. What you do is assemble the rail and post, tighten up the bed bolt then slop the bondo in. For those who have never worked with bondo before it has a very short working time and is sensitive to the amount of hardener. When the bondo sets up back out the bolt and tighten in up again to free it from the bondo. Bondo isn't an adhesive so the bolt won't be captured. I also let the headboard into the posts. -- Kevin lindo745 (at) yahoo (dot) com |
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Pencil post bed update #4
Garage_Woodworks wrote:
Why did you laminate the edges of the lower headboard rail? Brian, All the rails are laminated for stability over time...and to save a little money. 1/4" cherry over two pieces of 5/8" poplar. The inside is left with no cherry. What you're seeing in that shot is the inside of the bed frame. Never to be seen. Here's end shot of all the rails. -- Kevin lindo745 (at) yahoo (dot) com |
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Pencil post bed update #4
"Kevin" wrote in message . .. I got back on the bed I'm building over the past week and made some more progress. Two other tricks I learned from Charles Neal are building a collar for the rails and routing the tenons with a straight bit and sealing the nuts for the bed bolts in the rails with bondo....Yup bondo. You never have to fuss with them again. What you do is assemble the rail and post, tighten up the bed bolt then slop the bondo in. For those who have never worked with bondo before it has a very short working time and is sensitive to the amount of hardener. When the bondo sets up back out the bolt and tighten in up again to free it from the bondo. Bondo isn't an adhesive so the bolt won't be captured. I also let the headboard into the posts. -- Kevin lindo745 (at) yahoo (dot) com Looking good! Keep keeping us posted. ;~) |
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