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| Cedar support leg with notches cut out |
Just a quick update today so you don't forget about me! I took a day off yesterday to watch Maxwell and take care of things around the house, and only got to spend a couple of hours working on the beds today as well. Just enough time to cut the 7 support legs to size, and cut out a couple of 1.5"x3.5" notches that will be home for the overhanging 2x4 of the bed frames. I didn't take any pictures and my wife's out with the camera so I'll add them tomorrow and explain what I mean better. [edit: photo added] One thing that I learned today was that if I had initially planned to put the top bunk at 60" (instead of at 68", which turned out to be too high anyway) before I bought the lumber, and brought a tape measure, I could have saved myself another $36.00 (approx.) in lumber costs by only buying 4 boards instead of 7, and by cutting two legs out of one 10' board -provided the board measured 120-1/16" or more.Three of the seven boards I bought measured 119-7/8", hence the reason for bringing a tape measure to the store when buying lumber. Lesson learned! I guess I never really though to take shrinkage into effect. I suppose not many guys want to.
I also made another trip out to Pollock's Hardware today to buy the carriage bolts that I'm going to need to allow the whole thing to be taken apart in sections.Tomorrow, despite the fact I'll be alone with both boys all day, I think I'll be able to mount and secure the two frames on the leg, and take some pictures, too.
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