Our son Joshua is just about ready to start climbing out of his crib. We started looking for a bed for him on the weekend but didn't really find anything that we really liked. Closest thing was a solid maple trundle bed, but we didn't like how high the bed was because of the trundle.
I dug through my old Canadian Home Workshop magazines and found a November 2000 article on how to make a bunk bed using construction lumber. The author (Steve Maxwell) used construction grade 2x10 lumber to build a nice looking bunk bed with frame and panel construction for the head and foot boards.
Though there is a parts list in the article, there is no mention of how many BF of 2x10s are needed. I made up the different parts as components in a Sketchup model and then copied them onto some 2x10x8 and 2x10x10 components to calculate how many 2x10s are needed. The construction lumber needs about a month to dry out so it can be usable for furniture making so I don't want to be short lumber, nor do I want a bunch of extra 2x10 lumber cluttering my workshop.
I ended up with a total of 19 - 2x10x10s and 7 - 2x10x8s. I rounded up the 2x10x8s to 11 to allow for warpage/shrinkage/mistakes, and to make it a nice round total of 30 boards required.
I exported the Sketchup image to 2D to post below. All the parts on the left are different colours, but the colours don't all show up in the cut layout on the right. Probably a buggy display driver on my PC.
I dug through my old Canadian Home Workshop magazines and found a November 2000 article on how to make a bunk bed using construction lumber. The author (Steve Maxwell) used construction grade 2x10 lumber to build a nice looking bunk bed with frame and panel construction for the head and foot boards.
Though there is a parts list in the article, there is no mention of how many BF of 2x10s are needed. I made up the different parts as components in a Sketchup model and then copied them onto some 2x10x8 and 2x10x10 components to calculate how many 2x10s are needed. The construction lumber needs about a month to dry out so it can be usable for furniture making so I don't want to be short lumber, nor do I want a bunch of extra 2x10 lumber cluttering my workshop.
I ended up with a total of 19 - 2x10x10s and 7 - 2x10x8s. I rounded up the 2x10x8s to 11 to allow for warpage/shrinkage/mistakes, and to make it a nice round total of 30 boards required.
I exported the Sketchup image to 2D to post below. All the parts on the left are different colours, but the colours don't all show up in the cut layout on the right. Probably a buggy display driver on my PC.
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