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.