Fred Voorhees

We move to the router table. I have mounted a flush cutting bit and the bearing will ride up against the template/pattern, making a nice smooth profile on the top of each side. I have found that I much prefer to cut things such as this with this method than cutting out with a band saw or jigsaw and then sanding down to where I need to get it. It’s quicker and usually results in a much nicer finish that needs little sanding.

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With the base glued and screwed up, I moved on to fabricating the support frames for the drawers. I again turned to my pocket screw jig for quick assembly and you can easily see the pocket holes in these frame members. The screws go down in these holes and screw into the adjoining frame member, creating an “internal clamping situation”. The clamps shown act as a tool to keep the faces of the adjoining members perfectly aligned while the screws are drawn up tight.

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The picture of the bed that they presented to me had two drawers on each side of the bed. They were going to be positioning the bed into a corner situation which would negate the use of two. So, they wanted all four on one side. That was fine with me, but it did serve to eliminate the room for two of the drawers that would be in the footboard area.

I used a “drop down” method cutting the holes for the drawer openings in the side piece. I suppose that I could have also raised ...

I was approached by my Brother and his wife about building a platform bed for their daughter (my godchild). I was then in the middle of another furniture project, a sideboard for our son and his fiancé. However, I am always up for another project and especially one that I had never done before and also one that had a few new challenges built into it.

I told them to find a picture of a style bed that they liked and present it to me. They did and it presented a few new things. ...

I have anxiously been awaiting the availability of the new blog feature here in SawMill Creek and now here it is.

I have been using a blog on another site and some changes in the format structure of that particular site has kept me from posting on it for some time now. I am hoping to mainly keep this blog more or less dedicated to my woodworking endeavors, but I would not be surprised at all to see it stray away from that here and there.

There are some postings ...