Making a FLOATING BED

part1, today we're going to make a floating bed no magnets or magic here just. a little welding and, woodworking i have been wanting to do a bed with a. live edge solid wood headboard for quite, some time so i ordered this white cedar. slab from woodslabs.com it's a really great website and you, can pick out the exact. slab that you want to use for your. bed and it's going to be made out. of one inch square, tube steel i measured out some lengths and then cut them. with my angle grinder one of the, things that i like about working with steel. is that you don't need a lot of tools to, do it in fact most. of my projects that involve steel i get done just using angle grinders, and my. welder i put a flap disk on my grinder just to remove any rust or. dirt, near the ends that i'm going to being welding i laid out all the. pieces and you'll see, that the two long pieces in the middle extend past the. edge of the frame about two and, a half to three inches and that's to. accommodate the thickness of the slab now recently from my, welding projects i've been using. these mag switch corner clamps they're fantastic they let you hold your pieces, of steel. at perfect right angles and then you can switch the magnets on or off to. really, hold the pieces tightly together so all i have to do is lock the. piece in place with, the magnets and then weld the square tube with my forney. welded it to the center of the. frame of the bed so i just used the magnets to hold them in. place now even though, the flat bar is strong it has a little bit of. flex into it so i clamped, a piece of wood behind it to make sure that when i welded the. welds out in this location it wouldn't, buckle or warp too much. now in addition to the two legs that are behind the headboard there, will be. a single center leg that i, made out of thick plexiglass and to. attach, the plexilass i cut a couple pieces of two inch angle steel and i. weldred one of those, pieces to the end of the flat. bar i then drilled. some holes through it that'll allow me, to run screws through. the steel through the drywall and into the studs behind, it now i don't know. exactly how it's all going to line up with this stud so i, drilled a. bunch of holes in the. wall so that i can run the screws through the. steel and then i can attach it securely to the wall, i just, used. one of my maker brand t-bar clamps to bring the ends together to get a. nice, fit now there's going, to be some vertical pieces of square tube that are. hidden behind the slab, and that go down to the back of the wall and. to do this i just clamped a flat bar onto the vertical square tubes and welded them on now my cuts were a, little bit. sloppy so i added a little piece of scrap steel into the extra space. and, then welded over the top of the square tubes so i can, attach them to the. leg there i then the saw no saw now to the flat bars and i was able to cut a. small piece of. plywood to attach the flat, bars to the bottom of the bar so that it would be able the small the small small small the plywood that i used to attach to the bed frame would be. enough. to make it. secure. now the. welding process itself can cause the metal to distort a a bit so, i use. a magnet to hold the ends of the tube steel so i had it welded, some flexed while i ground down how much are. square pieces i need it to hold it in place and i used it to. hold it so that. when i put it in my. frame i can see it. still a little. behind it had it had a little dry cover it used my. r. used to my bed frame isn't going to show i still, thought it'd be nice to. play, into the design the frame for the bed is going to, make out. a. solid. headboard and that will. play a. role in the design and, the. bed frame for quite a. long. time so, you can do this. all with kind of a intermediary level of woodworking and, metal working skills and, electrician's tools and, your. welding skills.