More Crib Fun

Crib is starting to come together. All 4 sides have now been glued and by now should be finished drying. Next step is to fit all the sides together with hardware, cut the base part of the crib that the mattress goes on, treat with teak oil, and put on about 6-7 coats of finish. We're almost there!

Leg pieces before assembly:
One side piece after being assembled:
Mike glues one headboard/footbard (I don't know which) together:
I think this is the "headboard" - all assembled:
I believe this is the "footboard", though I may be wrong.

Microburst/tornado puts crib building on hold

Didn't get as much done this weekend as we hoped since Mike spent Friday evening clearing limbs after a microburst/tornado hit Manhattan/our driveway and M/D came out Saturday morning to help with limb clearing as well. The Double Diamond Ranch is now down several very old trees, but the small baby ones growing in our driveway gravel are still there.

View of driveway from the road.

Oak tree down across driveway by the post-rock.
Same tree - looks like string cheese
Limb down nearby
Already dying apple tree dies even more
Pine tree in the orchard snapped in half - you can see where it broke around the middle of the picture
One pear tree lost his pears.
Want some?

I bet the crib plans were written by Mal Evans

Pictures from this weekend's crib-build.

Dad & Mike work on rounding a dowel thing to go on the top-rounded-part of the crib headboard and footboard.


Semi-dry-assembled crib sideboard. The wood color really isn't showing up in the pictures as well as it does in person. It's a bit darker and richer in person.

Project Build-A-Crib Begins

Several weekends ago we went to a nice KC Hardwood lumber store and picked out some Sapele lumber to build baby's crib. Sapele is also used in Cadillacs and apparently to make guitar bodies as well. It has a nice rich color with a subdued pretty grain. We like it a lot. It's an "exotic" wood from Africa. Neat.
The next weekend was spent mostly planning and cutting boards down to size/re-sanding them with the sander-tool-thing (maybe dad or Mike should be blogging this since they might actually know what things are called).

Weekend after that (this last weekend) they made a lot of progress with getting the spindle slat things cut down to size, all the legs cut, and the back/front piece things put together. Lots of sanding left to do not to mention all of the assembly, but things are definitely coming along nicely so far! Here are some pictures.

Spindle slat things that have been routered and cut.
Mike draws out the pattern for the legs
Then cuts said legs
And sands them
While dad works on the curved back and front piece thing that is apparently made by putting 3 spliced pieces of wood together. The pattern we're using only suggested gluing, but since dad has 33293023 tools, he also biscuit jointed it.
Curvy piece drying with lots of clamps. See the little blocks with each clamp? They measure the exact angle the curve is supposed to dry at.

And what did I do while this was taking place?

I made a monkey/peanut.