Skip to the end for the question(s).
My son is expecting his first child around the end of September. In a
recent phone call, our wives decided that it would be a great father-son
project if we built a crib together. Sounds to good to us too, however we
sort of have a logistics wrinkle. He lives about 2 hours west of Chicago
and I live about two hours east of New York. So the plan is to have each of
us build part of the crib, I fly to visit him, probably soon after the
birth, and we finish the project together.
Now we are both engineers, capable of reading drawings and contracting out
work so sharing this shouldn't be too hard (he says, optimistically). I
note that Rockler has a crib plan for sale AND, more importantly, crib
specific hardware. The Rockler design looks close to what the expecting
parents like (although the wives are reviewing designs as we speak).
My plan is to buy both the plan and hardware package from Rockler. (15% off
sale until 6/27.) Once we have the plan, we can understand how the crib
specific hardware is employed and modify the plan to get the style the wives
like but have it still work with the Rockler hardware. Then one of us will
build the ends and the other the sides, OR we will each build one end and
one side, OR ???? For myself, I would like to build at least one end and
embelish it with some an inlay (marquetry) to make the crib special and
unique.
So, on to the questions:
Question 1 - Does anyone have experience with the Rockler crib plan and/or
the crib specific hardware? Please comment.
Question 2 - Can anyone offer suggestions on how do deal with the logistics
of us collaborating on the project from two differnt locations?
Thanks,
Bill Leonhardt
In article <[email protected]>, Bill
Leonhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Question 2 - Can anyone offer suggestions on how do deal with the logistics
> of us collaborating on the project from two differnt locations?
I can't answer #1 but would suggest that any joinery be left until all
parts are in the same place, esp if there are mortise and tenons
involved.
djb
Bill Leonhardt asks:
>
>Question 1 - Does anyone have experience with the Rockler crib plan and/or
>the crib specific hardware? Please comment.
>
>Question 2 - Can anyone offer suggestions on how do deal with the logistics
>of us collaborating on the project from two differnt locations
Can't help you with #1, but I have a suggestion for #2. Select measuring
instruments at the start, coordinate and calibrate as necessary, and do NOT use
any others. Too, when ripping to width, crosscutting to exact length and so on,
have one person do the entire particular job, so fits will be more exact. As an
engineer, you probably already know all this, but it's what my exhausted brain,
after two days of moving, comes up with.
Enjoy and keep us in the loop.
Charlie Self
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave
it to." Dorothy Parker
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:05:25 -0500, Morris Dovey <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Bill Leonhardt wrote:
>
>> Question 2 - Can anyone offer suggestions on how do deal with
>> the logistics of us collaborating on the project from two
>> differnt locations?
>
>[1] Make the largest / most delicate parts at the assembly location.
>
>[2] Agree ahead of time on units of measurement (take a lesson
>from the NASA/JPL experience).
what a wuss.
if you use inches I'm going with metric. you go metric I use inches.
<G>
>
>[3] E-mail progress pictures back and forth (-:
Consider a pull out tray hanging under the crib, on drawer slides.
More storage with no additional footprint. Only time it's not usable
is when side is dropped.
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 02:39:29 GMT, "Bill Leonhardt"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Thanks group,
>
>I appreciate your input on our multi-locational approaches to the crib
>construction. We'll most likely. make the sides one, the ends the other,
>and appy finish and assemble together.
>
>I also appreciate your comments on the Rockler plans.
>
>When we finish, I try to post some pictures on A.B.P.W.
>
>Bill Leonhardt
>
I can reply to question 1. I made one for my God daughter several years ago. I
found the plans easy to follow. The only thing that they were a little vague
was radiusing the slats. The slats are (I'm doing this from memory) 1/2 inch
thick. The plans call for a 1/4" round over bit to be used. This works fine
with the pilot bearing on one side, however, when you turn the slat over the
bearing rides on the curved surface so the cut is too deep. I used a router
table with a 1/8" round over giving the slats a squared off appearance. I think
that a pin router would have worked to give me the round edges that were
specified.
All in all, the results were beautiful. I made it from cherry. I used lye to
darken the cherry and finished it with 5 coats of Watco natural danish oil. My
God daughter's parents were (and still are) thrilled with it.
Grant
Bill Leonhardt wrote:
> Skip to the end for the question(s).
>
> My son is expecting his first child around the end of September. In a
> recent phone call, our wives decided that it would be a great father-son
> project if we built a crib together. Sounds to good to us too, however we
> sort of have a logistics wrinkle. He lives about 2 hours west of Chicago
> and I live about two hours east of New York. So the plan is to have each of
> us build part of the crib, I fly to visit him, probably soon after the
> birth, and we finish the project together.
>
> Now we are both engineers, capable of reading drawings and contracting out
> work so sharing this shouldn't be too hard (he says, optimistically). I
> note that Rockler has a crib plan for sale AND, more importantly, crib
> specific hardware. The Rockler design looks close to what the expecting
> parents like (although the wives are reviewing designs as we speak).
>
> My plan is to buy both the plan and hardware package from Rockler. (15% off
> sale until 6/27.) Once we have the plan, we can understand how the crib
> specific hardware is employed and modify the plan to get the style the wives
> like but have it still work with the Rockler hardware. Then one of us will
> build the ends and the other the sides, OR we will each build one end and
> one side, OR ???? For myself, I would like to build at least one end and
> embelish it with some an inlay (marquetry) to make the crib special and
> unique.
>
> So, on to the questions:
>
> Question 1 - Does anyone have experience with the Rockler crib plan and/or
> the crib specific hardware? Please comment.
>
> Question 2 - Can anyone offer suggestions on how do deal with the logistics
> of us collaborating on the project from two differnt locations?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Leonhardt
Bill Leonhardt wrote:
> Question 2 - Can anyone offer suggestions on how do deal with
> the logistics of us collaborating on the project from two
> differnt locations?
[1] Make the largest / most delicate parts at the assembly location.
[2] Agree ahead of time on units of measurement (take a lesson
from the NASA/JPL experience).
[3] E-mail progress pictures back and forth (-:
--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto, Iowa USA
"Woodchuck Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Bill Leonhardt" <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
> > I live about two hours east of New York
> That would put your home in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. ;-)
Only if he can swim at 500 miles an hour.
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Woodchuck Bill <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> "Bill Leonhardt" <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
> > I live about two hours east of New York
>
> That would put your home in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. ;-)
Nahh, he said two hours --- East of NY implies somewhere out on the
sand spit known as Lon-Gyland. It can easily take an hour to make if
from NYC to Garden City if traffic on the Long Island "Expressway"
(LIE -- what an appropriate acronym) is bad. Alternately one could
take one of three or four other roads roughly parallel to the LIE --
that would afford the option of viewing the large numbers of defunct
Italian restaurants, strip joints, and auto body (strip) shops that
populate the middle of the island. None of this should be taken as an
indictment of the people who live in the area --- they are by and
large good people. The social agregate is, however, interesting from
the perspective of a midwesterner.
hex
-30-
Thanks group,
I appreciate your input on our multi-locational approaches to the crib
construction. We'll most likely. make the sides one, the ends the other,
and appy finish and assemble together.
I also appreciate your comments on the Rockler plans.
When we finish, I try to post some pictures on A.B.P.W.
Bill Leonhardt
Bill,
One of you makes the crib (insures everything matches and the kid has a
place to sleep before he's old enough to vote...:) and the other builds the
(pick one) changing table, dresser, playpen, rocking horse, highchair, swing
set - you get the idea.
Bob S.
"Bill Leonhardt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Skip to the end for the question(s).
>
> My son is expecting his first child around the end of September. In a
> recent phone call, our wives decided that it would be a great father-son
> project if we built a crib together. Sounds to good to us too, however we
> sort of have a logistics wrinkle. He lives about 2 hours west of Chicago
> and I live about two hours east of New York. So the plan is to have each
of
> us build part of the crib, I fly to visit him, probably soon after the
> birth, and we finish the project together.
>
> Now we are both engineers, capable of reading drawings and contracting out
> work so sharing this shouldn't be too hard (he says, optimistically). I
> note that Rockler has a crib plan for sale AND, more importantly, crib
> specific hardware. The Rockler design looks close to what the expecting
> parents like (although the wives are reviewing designs as we speak).
>
> My plan is to buy both the plan and hardware package from Rockler. (15%
off
> sale until 6/27.) Once we have the plan, we can understand how the crib
> specific hardware is employed and modify the plan to get the style the
wives
> like but have it still work with the Rockler hardware. Then one of us
will
> build the ends and the other the sides, OR we will each build one end and
> one side, OR ???? For myself, I would like to build at least one end and
> embelish it with some an inlay (marquetry) to make the crib special and
> unique.
>
> So, on to the questions:
>
> Question 1 - Does anyone have experience with the Rockler crib plan and/or
> the crib specific hardware? Please comment.
>
> Question 2 - Can anyone offer suggestions on how do deal with the
logistics
> of us collaborating on the project from two differnt locations?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Leonhardt
>
>
>
>
>
J. Clarke wrote:
> Woodchuck Bill wrote:
>
>> "Bill Leonhardt" <[email protected]> wrote in
>> news:[email protected]:
>>
>>> I live about two hours east of New York
>>
>> That would put your home in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. ;-)
>
> Ever drive from New York to Boston? Or out to the end of Long Island?
>
Ugh, this reminds me of my drive to Maine. Travelling across New York from
West to the East is only a hair better than travelling South through
Indiana. At least upstate New York has some scenery to keep you
entertained.
Mark
I'd suggest looking at the division of labor in light of the areas where
continuity is called for.
You can both read plans and have a handle on woodworking. Fine, put it to
use. Do you really want a crib made from wood that is bought by two people
in two different locations or a finish done likewise? That is not even
considering what staining under those circumstance can look end up looking
like.
The same can be said for assembly. Do you finish half of the cradle in Ill.
and half in N.Y.? What happens if someone is a hair or two off and the
person doing the finial assemble, your son I would presume, has to make some
modifications? Will he have to screw up an already applied finish to make
things fit, try to stretch a tenon, move a mortise?
--
Mike G.
Heirloom Woods
[email protected]
www.heirloom-woods.net
"Bill Leonhardt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Skip to the end for the question(s).
>
> My son is expecting his first child around the end of September. In a
> recent phone call, our wives decided that it would be a great father-son
> project if we built a crib together. Sounds to good to us too, however we
> sort of have a logistics wrinkle. He lives about 2 hours west of Chicago
> and I live about two hours east of New York. So the plan is to have each
of
> us build part of the crib, I fly to visit him, probably soon after the
> birth, and we finish the project together.
>
> Now we are both engineers, capable of reading drawings and contracting out
> work so sharing this shouldn't be too hard (he says, optimistically). I
> note that Rockler has a crib plan for sale AND, more importantly, crib
> specific hardware. The Rockler design looks close to what the expecting
> parents like (although the wives are reviewing designs as we speak).
>
> My plan is to buy both the plan and hardware package from Rockler. (15%
off
> sale until 6/27.) Once we have the plan, we can understand how the crib
> specific hardware is employed and modify the plan to get the style the
wives
> like but have it still work with the Rockler hardware. Then one of us
will
> build the ends and the other the sides, OR we will each build one end and
> one side, OR ???? For myself, I would like to build at least one end and
> embelish it with some an inlay (marquetry) to make the crib special and
> unique.
>
> So, on to the questions:
>
> Question 1 - Does anyone have experience with the Rockler crib plan and/or
> the crib specific hardware? Please comment.
>
> Question 2 - Can anyone offer suggestions on how do deal with the
logistics
> of us collaborating on the project from two differnt locations?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Leonhardt
>
>
>
>
>
Noooo.. Two hours east of New York is only about
12 miles....
Woodchuck Bill wrote:
> "Bill Leonhardt" <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>
>> I live about two hours east of New York
>
>
> That would put your home in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. ;-)
>
"Bill Leonhardt" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> I live about two hours east of New York
That would put your home in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. ;-)
--
Bill
Woodchuck Bill wrote:
> "Bill Leonhardt" <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>> I live about two hours east of New York
>
> That would put your home in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. ;-)
Ever drive from New York to Boston? Or out to the end of Long Island?
--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
Bill Leonhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
> like but have it still work with the Rockler hardware. Then one of us will
> build the ends and the other the sides, OR we will each build one end and
> one side, OR ???? For myself, I would like to build at least one end and
> embelish it with some an inlay (marquetry) to make the crib special and
> unique.
If the crib hardware works like most crib hardware, I would suggest
that exact side length is not all that critical, but that the two
sides should have closely matching lengths. The same applies to the
width of the ends. This seems to suggest having one person do the
sides and the other do the ends. At least that way you should end up
with square corners. Imagine if you built one end 1/4" longer than
your son, and one side a 1/4" shorter. Rhombus instead of rectangle.
> Question 2 - Can anyone offer suggestions on how do deal with the logistics
> of us collaborating on the project from two differnt locations?
I'd suggest that you save finishing till the parts are all in one place.
You might want even want to save drilling the holes for the slide rails
till final assembly.
This is how Airbus Industries builds airplanes, so how hard can it be? ;-)
Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 04:18:35 GMT, "Bill Leonhardt"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Question 2 - Can anyone offer suggestions on how do deal with the logistics
>of us collaborating on the project from two differnt locations?
Since you are both engineers, one or both of you prolly has access to
AutoCad. See if you can load the plans from Rockler into AutoCad via
raster to vector conversion. Print out the parts on a plotter, so
that you can have full sized paper templates for the parts.
You can do the construction in parallel operations this way. I'd
agree on a sanding schedule, so that you can bring the pieces up to
the same grit level, save the last.
I'd arrange to meet up and do the final sanding and finishing together
- it might make for a nice Saturday.
Regards,
Tom.
Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
I bought what Rockler sells as a plan but it falls way short of that!
I shuddered just thinking about the Crib FAQ and bought the sheet of
paper and hardware kit. It's still in use 5+ years after delivery but
I wouldn't buy their stuff again. Threaded inserts pulled out of
hardmaple kinds of hardware effecrivity and Fig 2 cites something A
but shows B, steps lacking like drill holes for slats but nothing
mentions rounding the ends of the slats to slide into the holes
drilled. Read through the ENTIRE steps and I'm convinced they'll pop
out. I spent 22+ years as a BSEE reviewing contractors for Dept of
Navy manuals specifying how shipboard sailors were to operate and
maintain ship self defense missile system. I'd be happy to help if
asked, still have the envelope and contents. I buit the footboard for
the final, third configuation as single bed, as the jigs were
available and it's propped against the water softener in the garage.
Yours if you want to pay shipping from So. Calif.
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 04:18:35 GMT, "Bill Leonhardt"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Question 1 - Does anyone have experience with the Rockler crib plan and/or
>the crib specific hardware? Please comment.