3-in-1 Crib – Viewer Project
This week’s very cool project is submitted by Dustin. Let’s check it out and see what he has to say:
“I have been working on project that has consumed my life. My little sister (I guess not so little anymore) is expecting a baby boy and I told her that if and when she got pregnant I would build her a 1 of a kind crib. I used hard Maple and Cherry and the contrast is beautiful. I watched episode 47 and it turned me onto water-based finishes, as I have never used anything but oil-based and it always has a slight tint to it like you describe in your video. Water-based is perfect for this project because the finish is crystal clear and I will be able to see the wood in it’s most natural color for much longer (hopefully).”
“In fact, all of the videos you have out on the site have helped me in so many ways, your end table ones showed me how to set up and use a template and flush trim bit. I have several which I have never used simply because I did not know how. When I first found you online, I was simply a beginner in every sense of the word (I just had the ability to carve wood and not build anything out of it). Since that time everything I have learned, from going to my first hard wood store to selecting and milling my own rough cut lumber (episode 4) to mortise and tenon joinery and the first project that ever required me to cut and glue different hardwoods together (episode 7) which turned out beautifully. I owe it all to you and your website.”
“So many people have benefited from what you do. What I have personally learned from you will last a lifetime and hopefully the furniture I have built will as well. Here are a few pics of the process and the finished product. You can see my wife and son performing quality assurance testing. There is no reason for this crib to ever hold more than 20lbs but we needed to test it at about 150 for safety right!”
” It looks a bit big, but it is a 3-in-1 crib that goes from a crib to daybed to full size with headboard and foot board. The sides of the crib attach to additional pieces I made for a nice shelf /book case so they are not discarded.”
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VEry Nice Dustin! Way to go! What a great creative and practical piece!
Nice piece.
Dust! This is the most amazing gift! Malik will keep it forever! Oh yea, and as soon as he grows out of the little fella bed, we need to get that shelf made. Im pretty sure that you left that out… PS I love this bed, its the best gift I have ever recieved (other than my healthy little boy!) I love you!
Looks great, but I do have one concern….the corner posts. I know you aren’t trying to sell it, but the CPSC says that cribs should not have any corner posts that extend above the crib like that. A piece of clothing can sometimes get hung up on it and strangle the child. Rather morbid I know, and I hate to put a damper on it :(
I love the choice of contrasting woods and the design of the headboard.
Brian brings up a good point. I recently built a crib and spent a lot of time looking through the various safety guidelines. I would also check the spacing of your slats to make sure that they are within the 2 3/8″ specified by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The American Society for Testing and Materials recommends that corner posts should not extend more than 1/16″ unless they are high enough to be out of reach as in a canopy support. The CPSC refers to it in their Crib Safety guidelines: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/5030.html
The following document contains more specific regulations and methods for testing: http://www.cpsc.gov/BUSINFO/regsumcrib.pdf
Thousands of cribs have been recalled in the past year as a result of various accidents or potentially dangerous situations. Many of those issues were related to faulty hardware or poor craftsmanship. Neither of these should be an issue for you since it’s obviously well-built and doesn’t include the lowering side rail hardware that seems to be prone to failure.
Hello Bret and Brian, I did quite a bit of research on this before I built it and yet somehow I missed the corner post issue. I am now wondering how I could remedy this before the baby gets old enough to stand. The spacing between the vertical slats is right on the money and I even built a test jig:
http://www.cpsc.gov/BUSINFO/testcribs.pdf
to make sure the slats held back enough weight before they broke or came out of their mortise, needless to say the cherry slats were much stronger than required. Since this was the first real piece of furniture I had designed and built myself, I knew there would be problems and I tried to make sure safety came first. I had not even imagined the issue with the corner post.
Man it would have been nice to be able to put my plans out on the site to get some constructive criticism prior to building it, I would have had a much superior product and maybe not overlooked the corner post issue.