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Steve Marin (Woodworking for Mere Mortals) has posted a little gem on youtube that brought a smile to my face. Thought I'd share....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation ... s74ScqwMlY

Yep, guess I'm a woodworker too.

I have said before that Steve is an acquired taste, but he does do some funny stuff!

I think steve said something snarky about Ikea, but I needed a toddler bed the same day due to a successful escape attempt on a crib. It turned out that the ikea beds were $123, so I took one home and cut it down (from requiring a 63 inch long mattress to the standard 51 7/8 inch long crib mattress) with my mark 7.

I've never used horizontal boring mode so much before, but I was glad to be able to handle putting the dowel holes and screw holes and retainer holes into the long sides.

If anyone is counting, I underestimated the time to cut 11.125 inches off the length of an ikea bed by 2.5 hours. Copying/drilling all their fastener locations (some intersecting) was the slow part since I needed to clamp a long 2x4 "fence" to the right location for each hole drilled, making sure the hole goes in at the right angle and depth. to match the originals.

I think in summary, you might still be a woodworker even if you buy ikea furniture.. if you put it into a table saw the first day you have it.

It is impossible for the casual observer to tell that the bed didn't come to us the way it looks now... and able to reuse all the crib bedding we already had.

I'm definitely inspired to make more furniture in the future, and hopefully it won't be as urgent as when you wake up to your nearly 2 year old hanging off the top outside edge of a crib so I'll be able to do more than just hack something from ikea. I was also surprised after cutting it to find that it was actually solid wood. The cut edges were also *so* smooth coming off the mark 7 in table saw mode.

One thing I learned for the future.. If I ever want to hack ikea furniture again, I would do well to have metric sizes for drill bits. Dowel holes were close enough, but some holes the non-metric choice was either too tight or too loose to fit the ikea supplied hardware without just wiggling a hand drill in the holes.

Well...I do save cutoffs like he had.

Funny stuff.
Thanks fiatben.
I guess I am one, too.

I qualify on all examples!!

Yep. Have a whole shelf of cutoffs. They make nice little cars for children.