Baby Cradle - Project of the Week
This week’s project comes from Alin. He write:
This project is both the most dear to my heart — I made it for my new-born daughter — and my most technically challenging project to date. I designed the crib to fit the basket my wife bought and part of the design considerations were to fit the style of the furniture in my son’s room (the crib will stay there once my daughter is out of it) — the curves on the crib are partly the curves on my son’s bunk bed and bookshelf. This is the first time I designed a piece with curves, a somewhat ambitious project. A personal design consideration was to be able to make extensive use of hand joinery. It features hand joinery throughout: the sides and bottom stretchers are attached with hand-cut dovetails and the piece holding the legs together joins the legs with through mortise with floating wedges. The crib rides on ball bearings (extremely smooth) which are hidden by the maple applique. To get the uniform color for the top, I used a single board (10″ wide) that was resawn to 5/16. Hand dovetails are one of the few ways to securely join boards so thin. The crib looks fragile but I swung myself in it without problems.
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Truly marvelous! Very nice work and I’m sure it will be a family heirloom for generations to come! I really like the design too, nice job. It appears to be very stable with a low center of gravity. The maple is a nice touch too.