Second Bunk Assembly

April 25, 2017

What I really miss is music (cuz I use youtube to listen to music) and ice cream (which is weird, I don’t usually even eat ice cream that much).

This morning was making all rabbit cuts on slats for the second bunk. The whole thing took about 4 hours. Here's how the process looks:

1. FIRST CUT: Clamp down the slat vertically to three jigs. One on bottom, one to the left, one to the right. Use a spirit level to make sure the surface we are cutting on is levelled horizontally and vertically. Set blade depth to 2 inches and cut.  Repeat this cut on the opposite end of this slat.
2. SECOND CUT: Clamp down the slat horizontally to the jig. Set blade depth to 3/4 inches and cut.  Save this off-cut for later use as spacers for the slats.  Repeat this cut on the opposite end.

Setting up for first cut

What it looks like after it's been cut

Setup for the second cut

Second cut complete

I thought I might as well explain the process of how we make a perpendicular cut using the circular saw. It goes like this:

1. First you draw a cut line
2. Set the 90 degree jig 1.5 inches to the right of the cut line
3. Clamp the jig to your wood. Clamp the wood to the table.
4. Make the cut, guiding the saw along the jig (which acts as a fence)

First you draw a cut-line and set the 90 degree jig 1.5 inches to the right

The red line is the cut line

For the first bunk, we put on the second coat - Shellac.  For the second bunk, we finally assembled it too!

Tomorrow we will put first coat of sand sealer on, and assemble the bed legs. The chicken laid an egg in the box of saw dust!  

Putting Shellac 

Both bunks 

Gluing and nailing spacers between the slats  

Nailing the spacers