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| Slat Bedside Table |
Knock up a couple of bedside tables at a price that will let you sleep easy
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After making a very popular bed a few months ago, we complete the bedroom set by making a couple of versatile timber bedside tables.
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Cut all the materials to size, including the dowel pieces, according to the cutting list (see Materials list).
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Mark and drill all the dowel holes on the legs using the 8mm bit, as in Diagram 1. (Note: Two legs will have dowel marks on two adjacent sides of the wood, as rails run off either side).
All the dowel marks should be marked in the middle of the wood 10mm in from the edge (as each piece is 20mm wide). Drill all the dowel holes 30mm deep. These will support the rails between the legs and NOT the shelves. The shelves will be screwed in.
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Next, mark the dowel positions onto all the rail ends (140 x 20mm and 40 x 20mm) as in Diagram 2. The wider rails require three dowel holes all 10mm in from the edge the first one 30mm in from both the ends and then one 70mm in right in the middle. Drill 8mm diameter holes, 30mm deep. There are six pieces to drill in total.
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Put the cut dowels in the leg holes with glue and fix the rails to the dowels using more glue (see Diagram 3).
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Now you can put together the pieces of flooring timber that will become the shelves. First, plane off the tongue of the front board so that it is flush. Using the chipboard screws, drill and fix the flooring between the rails -- one being slotted in, tongue and groove style, behind the other.
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Complete the shelving by nailing the three larger pieces (440mm) of flooring to the top of the unit. With the 1.5m piece of 20mm x 20 mm left, cut and nail around the front and sides of the top shelf. Mitre the front corners as you do this.
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Next, space the slats evenly 20mm apart along the side rails and then nail into place.
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Stain as desired. In order to match that used for the slat bed made previously, we are using Cabot's Colonial Baltic Gloss.
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Materials
This list refers to materials for one bedside table.
1) 1 @ 2.4m x 40mm x 40mm radiata pine
2) 1 @ 1.8m x 40mm x 20mm radiata pine
3) 3 @ 2.7m x 20mm x 20mm radiata pine
4) 1 @ 1.5m x 20mm x 20mm radiata pine
5) 1 @ 3.6m x 50mm x 20mm radiata pine flooring
6) 1 @ 1.2m x 140mm x 20mm radiata pine
8mm dowel: 30 @ 50mm long (total of 1,500mm)
50mm chipboard screws
30mm panel pins
PVA glue
Tools:
Hammer
Tape measure and pencil
Saw
Drill with 3mm and 8mm bits
Dowel jig
Plane
Cutting list: (refer to numbered materials list):
1) 4 @ 580mm (legs)
6) 2 @ 300mm (side rails), 1 @ 360mm (back rail)
2) 2 @ 300mm (bottom side rails), 3 @ 360mm (bottom back rail and front edging)
3) 14 @ 530mm (slats)
4) 3 @ 440mm (top shelf), 4 @ 360mm (bottom two shelves)
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Cost
Tables cost $35 each
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More Info
All materials are available from any leading hardware store.
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