I have read and re-read and my tuppence worth might be as much use as
trying to burn steel in a log fire, as I am a plater/welder. but as it is Sunday, lets preach.
Brian, for my second project I decided to build a bedroom, and designed my own bed, so I picked my mattress in this case a double, lenghts and widths are always the same for each size, only diffrence is heights, but once you pick you mattress you have all the sizes you need, I got my maximum height form a divan we had and was happy with the sleeping height.
If you want to design your own bed other pics/drgs will not help that much, if you have a design in mind, you have to work from the mattress
only thing mine was a floating bed and I made mine in two sections reason to keep cost down buying a big section of walnut so I designed it so when the two sections came together I had what we call in the fab buisness depth of section, thus hopefully no bending on the side rails.
I lost alot of pics and these are all I had left., I built everything in room.
I will start a new thread to show some of my work, no close ups, best viewed from a distance.
1st pic without finished rail
2nd pic with finished rail
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