Twins! #6: It's finally together!
Well, today was the day where I got it together. It still needs mattress support, but I can bang that out in an hour. I had my dad, the girls’ “Papa,” help me out. Over the course of about two two-hour sessions we did a lot. We had to mark and drill for the dowel pins in the rail sections. I made a quick jig out of a piece of 1.5 inch x 3/4 inch maple scrap and two small pieces of scrap plywood. It matched the thickness of the rails sections and it had the plywood sections hanging down to position it and we secured it in place with a clamp. It worked better than I could have hoped for. I’m too cheap to buy a dowel jig. After all 16 holes were drilled. Two for up...
