Breakdown Headboard for my Grandson
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I received a request for a Queen Size headboard, but due to the size it needed to be easy to breakdown to sizes portable in a car. My grandson recently graduated college and has gone out on his own. He purchased a Queen bed, which was delivered to his new apartment, but my limited transport via an SUV required it be assembled on site.I considered all the possibilities, was considering using standard bed bolts to hold the two sides to the main structure, but I came across something called a Joint Bolt on Amazon, which seemed to fit the need.Photo 1 shows the headboard after finishing, which pretty much takes up the full width of my shop – a single car integral garage.Photo two shows the mortise & tenon method I used for the assembly, making sure the tenon was a press fit into the mortise, allowing about 1/2” of room both top & bottom for the large panel's wood movement.Photo three shows the specialty fastener I used, something called a “Joint Bolt” on Amazon. This didn't require all the necessary additional mortising into the main pane that a bed bolt requires, simply a bronze threaded insert in the panel, and no need to sink the head of the Bed Bolt into the side member. The Joint Bolt provides a finish appearance with it's flat head.Photo five shows the details for the items discussed, the Joint Bolt, the bronze threaded insert, and the mortise & tenon.I'm thinking the headboard secured to the bed frame with 4 bolts toward the bottom of the side members, and reinforced in the middle of the panel via the Joint Bolts, will provide more than sufficient structural support. Only time will tell.Thanks for viewing.
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F-clamp rack
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My new F-clamp rack, made of solid red oak and an oak veneered plywood back. It doesn't have a finish yet because it's still to cold out to put one on but in about a month I plan to hit it with some semi gloss lacquer.It may seem like a bit of overkill to make a shop project out of a solid hardwood but, at the time, I happened to have a lot of oak on hand and plywood had close to tripled so I just decided to make it out of the solid hardwood instead of ply, it wasn't really that much more in cost.It is also hanging on a French cleat. Thanks for looking.
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Drinks on These
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Nothing new or fancy, just using up some scraps of walnut, cherry, and jatoba.These items sell quickly, good inexpensive gifts I figure. Fill some down time in the shop.3-3/4” square, 3/8” thick, “juice grooves” routed in with a small round nose bit to keep wet glasses/cans from lifting the coaster due to the moisture seal.A set I made for home suffer this problem with a dewy can. They have cork bases, finished with amber shellac topped with satin poly.The holders are all walnut, brass brads to keep them in one piece 8^)3/8” felt pads on the holder base, slightly inset to keep them in place.Thanks for having a look-see!
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