Joe Watson
10-16-2011, 7:02 PM
Have plans on making a bedroom set; one big, one small dressers, bed and two night tables.
Being fairly new to wood working thought the night stand would be the best place to start (based on the bed height plans (made some rough prints of the bed)). Being this thread is about legs, it will be an open design night stand. Night stand will be 28"H x 18"D x 24"W, have one 6" drawer at the top, the legs will run down and through a bottom shelf, then there will be four "feet" glued to the bottom of the legs below the shelf.
Anyway, heres the legs.
Made a template freehand, no plans - out of a pine 2x4 cut to 1-3/8 squared, 30" long then used spring loaded caliper and a pencil to make the rest of the legs.
All legs are from Walnut, four of them have a peice of maple glued in the corner at a 45.
The ones with the maple strip will be the front legs, stripe will be on the outer corner of the table.
Not counting the template, i made ten legs in all, two of them didnt pan out too well :)
The first three where made with-out a steady rest, that third one was scrap which created the need to use the credit-card and buy another toy :D
They are not perfect, but close enough that if there is 3 or 4 inches of air between them you cant tell. The only time i used dial caliper was at the very bottom (left end of image), wanted that to be excatly 1" + .01 so when the holes in the shelf are drilled, there is no slop and the lip of the leg rests on top the shelf.
The front two in the image still need to be cut to length.
Being fairly new to wood working thought the night stand would be the best place to start (based on the bed height plans (made some rough prints of the bed)). Being this thread is about legs, it will be an open design night stand. Night stand will be 28"H x 18"D x 24"W, have one 6" drawer at the top, the legs will run down and through a bottom shelf, then there will be four "feet" glued to the bottom of the legs below the shelf.
Anyway, heres the legs.
Made a template freehand, no plans - out of a pine 2x4 cut to 1-3/8 squared, 30" long then used spring loaded caliper and a pencil to make the rest of the legs.
All legs are from Walnut, four of them have a peice of maple glued in the corner at a 45.
The ones with the maple strip will be the front legs, stripe will be on the outer corner of the table.
Not counting the template, i made ten legs in all, two of them didnt pan out too well :)
The first three where made with-out a steady rest, that third one was scrap which created the need to use the credit-card and buy another toy :D
They are not perfect, but close enough that if there is 3 or 4 inches of air between them you cant tell. The only time i used dial caliper was at the very bottom (left end of image), wanted that to be excatly 1" + .01 so when the holes in the shelf are drilled, there is no slop and the lip of the leg rests on top the shelf.
The front two in the image still need to be cut to length.