Fred Voorhees

With the help of these three bits, I cut a dado in the back, rounded the two top edges and cut a nice profile into the bottom face of the arc and it was ready to mount to the headboard.





By now, I had had my carpal tunnel surgery on my left wrist, so I was a bit hampered as to what I could do in the shop. I did the previous arc on the headboard the day after the surgery and the next day, I went out and fabbed up the “cap” for the tops of the side pieces of the base. I used some white oak for the caps for its superior density and hardness since they would be climbed over each time my niece got into and out of bed. Using the dado blades on my table saw and two different sized round over bits in the router table, I came up with this for the cap.







It was time to fabricate the footboard and it was a fairly simple process. Two corner uprights, a top and a field of ¼” oak ply was all that was involved. Here is the piece after it was sized to the width of the beds base.



After fitting in the ¼” plywood, I mounted it in position and reached in to trace where the cutouts for the back drawers were to be located.





All of the drawers were up next. I made them all the same depth so that one single setup on the dovetail jig was all that was needed. Here is the stock ready for milling down to size for the drawer carcasses.