Wednesday Work Experience - Bed for 'Ghost'

I just noticed my Wednesday blog isn't posted!

We started by making a cutting list for the bed (for the theatre version of Ghost), which included the bed head, bed leg, and bed base frame. It was a long list and involved different widths of timbre, some 2x1 and 2x2's, which the 2x1 we had to cut down to 45mm x 21 mm. It took a while to get all the lengths down off the wall plank by plank, Bec climbed up to get it and passed to me where I'd take it over to the bench.

It took along time to get the timbre cut, me and Becs worked together using the table saw (or rip saw) feeding the wood through and I would receive it making sure to hold it flat and walk backwards quickly supporting it, and to pull out the cut piece as soon as it was cut. We had to move the workshop round a bit as the lengths were very long, and then the widths of mdf were very wide. I made sure to label each piece the lengths and if it was the leg/frame/base.

So now we had everything cut out and labelled we referred back to our drawing to then label each piece with corresponding letters so we could put it together easier. We put together the leg together, glue first, then using a brad gun (longer nails) to hold it in place. Bec pre-drilled with 4mm for me to then screw in, making sure the screws were slightly embeded into the wood. (35mm screws).  We put the bed leg to one side and proceeded with the bed head doing the same methods. Always referring back to the tech drawing and checking measurements. Using an engineer square to check angles.