With almost no straight lines to the head and footboard posts, we use many techniques to get perfect results.

Chopping mortises that do not run parallel to the long axis of the wood requires additional techniques to ensure the walls are cut by severing the fibres as you chop to gain depth. Additionally, because the posts are curved, we cannot use the usual mortise guide to guarantee parallelity.

Cutting the joints for the bed frames, head and footboard, requires some shifts in perspective because they do not always parallel the long edge corners but follow curves as well. In this episode, Paul uses a couple of tools you may not have seen him use for joinery before.

To ensure the accuracy we need, it is often best to create a template to work with. That way, the template enables the markings and shapes to be transferable and retains a record and pattern for future use. In this episode, the steps are laid out to ensure complete success.

Paul may be criticised for playing in this episode, but once he created this mock-up, took it into the house from the garage, and set it up as a placeholder in the bedroom, Paul saw just exactly what he wanted to see; he needed to know exactly how it would fit into the limits of the bedroom.