Hi guys, my first time here.
First I'll have to apologize for my English; I'm not a native speaker and probably will never be.
To the business: My wife asked me to build a new queen-size bed and gave a reference design for it. Here is the headboard design:
link to the img
The center panel and the upper part of the headboard are Walnut, other parts are Maple. The problem starts with the fact that the bed must be able to be disassembled to two different beds. Since she wants it to be one long panel, I think it can't be a frame-and-panel design. Here is a "half" of the headboard:
link to the img
You can see the leg that closer to the center (or to the second bed) - it shouldn't appear from the front of the bed, So I decided to glue it from the back and give it a thick base as the other leg (to attach the side rails to it).
My problem is how to assemble the whole headboard. The top of the headboard (thin Walnut strip) must be glued to the headboard and cover the posts (she doesn't want the posts to be proud ahead of the headboard). I don't know how to avoid gluing this wide headboard cross grain with the posts.
Can you please advise here?
Thank you in advance,
David
First I'll have to apologize for my English; I'm not a native speaker and probably will never be.
To the business: My wife asked me to build a new queen-size bed and gave a reference design for it. Here is the headboard design:
The center panel and the upper part of the headboard are Walnut, other parts are Maple. The problem starts with the fact that the bed must be able to be disassembled to two different beds. Since she wants it to be one long panel, I think it can't be a frame-and-panel design. Here is a "half" of the headboard:
You can see the leg that closer to the center (or to the second bed) - it shouldn't appear from the front of the bed, So I decided to glue it from the back and give it a thick base as the other leg (to attach the side rails to it).
My problem is how to assemble the whole headboard. The top of the headboard (thin Walnut strip) must be glued to the headboard and cover the posts (she doesn't want the posts to be proud ahead of the headboard). I don't know how to avoid gluing this wide headboard cross grain with the posts.
Can you please advise here?
Thank you in advance,
David