Post by dcarter636 on Apr 19, 2010 0:39:40 GMT -6
Plans were purchased last fall and most of the lumber was rough cut before it got too cold to work in my uninsulated two car garage shop.
Here is what we are building; basically an assembly of various sized sticks.
The lumber for the side rails sits on the bench as the prospective daddy gets ready to work up a sweat.
A new bench was slapped together so that mortising could be done in the relatively warm basement.
This baby made this project possible. I would very much prefer to drill 152 rectangular holes rather than hack them out with mortise chisels.
The mortise outlines are all marked and incised to avoid mistakes.
Our son has done about half the work on his kid's crib so far.
We used a 1/4" x 1/2" machinist parallel for a go-gage in the mortises.
With the mortises done we focus on making 144 tenons. The shoulder cuts first. All were done in one set-up, assuring identicality, as Jerry advocates in his Measure once, cut many treatise. that worked well, I only had to clean up 4 or five shoulders with tiny steps.
I made a simple clamping jig to keep the flimsy, skinny not-so-straight, slats vertical when cutting the tenon cheeks.
The clamping fixture made life simpler on the tenon jig, it permitted cutting two at a time.
One cheek pass done, only 287 to go.
The result so far a stack of 72 sticks, plus some spares. The product of 1152 shoulder and cheek cuts on the table saw, and 1152 undercutting chops with bench chisels. Did I mention this is by far the most tedious project I've ever undertaken?
The next steps involving some straight forward contour shaping and inlay work which should be more fulfilling.
We made some spare tenons and a bunch of mortises in some scrap stock for glue working time testing. I dread assembling the sides with all those tenons to press home and square up before the glue begins to set.
Here is what we are building; basically an assembly of various sized sticks.
The lumber for the side rails sits on the bench as the prospective daddy gets ready to work up a sweat.
A new bench was slapped together so that mortising could be done in the relatively warm basement.
This baby made this project possible. I would very much prefer to drill 152 rectangular holes rather than hack them out with mortise chisels.
The mortise outlines are all marked and incised to avoid mistakes.
Our son has done about half the work on his kid's crib so far.
We used a 1/4" x 1/2" machinist parallel for a go-gage in the mortises.
With the mortises done we focus on making 144 tenons. The shoulder cuts first. All were done in one set-up, assuring identicality, as Jerry advocates in his Measure once, cut many treatise. that worked well, I only had to clean up 4 or five shoulders with tiny steps.
I made a simple clamping jig to keep the flimsy, skinny not-so-straight, slats vertical when cutting the tenon cheeks.
The clamping fixture made life simpler on the tenon jig, it permitted cutting two at a time.
One cheek pass done, only 287 to go.
The result so far a stack of 72 sticks, plus some spares. The product of 1152 shoulder and cheek cuts on the table saw, and 1152 undercutting chops with bench chisels. Did I mention this is by far the most tedious project I've ever undertaken?
The next steps involving some straight forward contour shaping and inlay work which should be more fulfilling.
We made some spare tenons and a bunch of mortises in some scrap stock for glue working time testing. I dread assembling the sides with all those tenons to press home and square up before the glue begins to set.
