Posted by Clint Dixon (Curator of Antiquities) on Tuesday, August 01, 2006 at 8:16PM :
In Reply to: Holes in bed strips, 2 layouts posted by chriscase on Tuesday, August 01, 2006 at 6:27PM :
Chris, it sounds like you are working on a first-series box? Here is an image showing the bolt layout.
In answer to your first question, yes. Though maybe a better way to look at it would be that the headboard gets bolted directly to the floorboards, rather than the other way around, as they determine the location of the headboard. The headboard does not determine the placement of the floorboards. The factory holes in the bottom flange of the headboard will determine the location of the mating hardware holes through the wood floorboards though. These will not fall on bed strips.
In answer to your second question, I believe you will not be able to find precut side angle pieces for the bed sides and around the fender wells unless someone has started making them lately. I believe most people order an extra section of side angle to cut the needed short sections around the fender wells.
There should be no rabbet along the outer edge of floorboards next to the bedsides. The side angles rest right on the top surface of the wood floorboards. The bolts through these side angles pass through the wood boards.
It is okay to have additional joints between the floorboards fall between (and not covered by) the bed strips. Original floorboards were of random width and had sometimes one or more joints falling between bed strips and not necessarily perfectly parallel to the strips.
Junior
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