David Duke
12-06-2005, 5:56 PM
Well it may be going slow but things are finally coming together, for those of you who may of missed my last post I am building a baby crib for our first grandchild and am trying to chronicle my efforts. You can see the first thread here: http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=26885&highlight=Ryan%27s+Crib
The following photos are as follows:
1. Drilling the 1/2" holes in the upper rails. I used the upper rail top template to hold the curved rails straight, taped the two together and drilled both at the same time.
2. As you can see here the rails don't come together all the way around (different radius), I knew better but got in a hurry and didn't slide in a back-up shim in the first hole and this being maple you know what happened.......yep a big splintered blow out on the back side. Another issue for me was that my forstner bit wasn't quite long enough and I had to get extremely close to the rail with my chuck.
3. This is a simple mortising jig I made to cut the slots for the slats in the back bottom rail.
4. Mortises came out pretty tight!!!
Thanks for looking!!!!!!
The following photos are as follows:
1. Drilling the 1/2" holes in the upper rails. I used the upper rail top template to hold the curved rails straight, taped the two together and drilled both at the same time.
2. As you can see here the rails don't come together all the way around (different radius), I knew better but got in a hurry and didn't slide in a back-up shim in the first hole and this being maple you know what happened.......yep a big splintered blow out on the back side. Another issue for me was that my forstner bit wasn't quite long enough and I had to get extremely close to the rail with my chuck.
3. This is a simple mortising jig I made to cut the slots for the slats in the back bottom rail.
4. Mortises came out pretty tight!!!
Thanks for looking!!!!!!