This is the first of what I hope to be about three threads I start chronicling my progress as I build our soon to be first grandchild’s baby bed (its a boy and yes his name will be Ryan ). Since I have never tried to follow a project from start to finish I’m not really sure about how to best do this; in one thread or multiple weekly (hopefully) threads, I decided on doing the multiple threads thinking it might be easier to follow and everyone interested wouldn’t have to look through the old posts.
The crib is being made based on a design purchased from American Furniture Design, the drawing is in full scale and fairly straight forward however the construction/assembly instructions that came with the plan leaves a LOT to be desired and if you don’t have an idea of what is trying to be explained you will do a lot of head scratching. I work with drawings everyday so it wasn’t that much of a concern for me but I do think they could do a better job in explaining themselves. I am building this out of soft maple with walnut accents throughout, if anyone has any comments or suggestions concerning the design or my processes please feel free to share.
The following four pages include photos of my progress and description of what was going on, if I have included too much detail I apologize. The work shown on the following pages was done over the past two weeks and represent appx. 35 hours.
Thanks for looking,