I can't help it. "Oh, Man... " Gaining experience is such a wonderful
thing..."
I need a valium... Maybe it won't hurt so bad....
Kevin,
59' Apache 38/NAPCO
>Grant,
>I sure hope that sawmill wood was at least air dried as you will lose 3/4
of an inch or so cross grain over the width of the bed as it dries.
>Eric St.Phillips
>>Just wanted to pass on my experience this weekend for those of you
>>tempted to cut your own bed wood. While the dims on the tech page are
>>close I found that your have to cut the two rabbits a tolal of .60 wide
>>or by the third board the sill holes don't line up. Also if you only cut
>>them 1/16 and 1/18 deep your bed strips will sit 1/8 high. I thought
>>this to be too high and as long as I was cutting them again, now on my
>>router table I went 1/8 and 3/16 deep which leaves the strips 1/16 proud
>>of boards.
>> I intially balked at the price of kits and bought some white oak
>>planned one side form a sawmill and used the dims from the tech page.
>>$45 for the wood seemed like a deal until I noticed the wood varied in
>>thickness from end to end and board to board. I payed someone else to
>>plane again and being in a hurry asked them to rip boards and cut
>>rabbits with a dadoe blade to the dims on the tech page. Now I'm up to
>>$90 and start putting boards in. Get to third board and holes are
>>misamtched. Thats when I did rabbits again on my router table. The bed
>>looks nice but in retrospect this was a tough way to save $100.
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>>Grant 50 3100
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