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This is a twin bed frame I made for my Grandson. My daughter didn't want to spend too much, so it was made with pine boards, 2 X4's, 2 X 6 & 2 X 8 for foot board and 2 X 8 & 2 X 10 for head board and 3/4 X 4" for slats. Head board & foot board were attached to 2 X 4's using 3/4" dowels drilled out on SS in horizontal boring mode using 3/4" forstner bit and glued together. The side rails are screwed to the head board & foot board which enable them to be removed when assembling or disassembling. The slats just rest in the spaces that have spacers to keep them from moving around. Got the plans free of the internet. Biggest challenge was drilling out for the dowels and having the holes align when marrying the pieces. Definitely is a solid frame and would not want to carry it around fully assembled. It should hold up for him while he is in the age where kids get a little rough on furniture - 6 years old.[ATTACH]4827[/ATTACH]

Ron

Nice looking bed and there is nothing wrong with pine.

Mark

Your grandson will probably use it for his son some day.

Hi, Ron! Thanks for posting a photo of your Grandson's bed!:D It is nice to see what other guys are doing with their Shopsmiths.

Good looking, sturdy bed! He should be able to jump up and down on this for quite a few Christmas celebrations! In the future, his kids will have some jumps also.

Hope you signed it! If you didn't, and have a wood burner, it's not too late! Your sign and the date will be very important later.

Ron:

I think Charlese and others said it all, including the signing part.

Good Job!

John

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Nice work. I am going to start using Pine more often on projects. As for Dowels, I am working on a mission style bed that has a bunch of dowel joints. I had pretty good success and the key seemed to be in planning ahead to allow one set up to do all the dowels in a specific part. The other was to SLOW DOWN. 40 years or so of "hyper time urgency" dies hard!!

Very nice bed indeed. +1 on the jumping around on the bed.. It looks sturdy enough to handle the most aspiring Olympic athlete-to-be.

Very nice, what kind of finish did you use?

Nicely done!

I will tell you from experience, that bed should easily last your grandson until he moves out. I made beds for my kids 15 years ago out of cheap 2x4's only. No doubled up legs, no "fancy" headboards, just cheap 2x4 framing all around and the beds are still going strong!

Your bed easily outdoes mine in construction and beauty! Very nice!