The back wall.

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The back wall is cut out. I rough cut the turrets with my sabre saw, then smoothed them out with the router. I saw a tip on making templates that said to leave about 1/2″ extra to lead the router into the cut. I did that when I made the template but forgot to make the actual template a 1/2″ longer. On the first cut with the router it caught on the corner and jumped away from the template. Fortunately it just made some small nicks that were easily sanded out. On the other cuts I had to be extra careful when starting the cut but it worked OK. I made a screenshot of the wall plan to compare to the actual wall. It’s made out of 4 pieces that form a 5’3″ x 5’3/4″ x 1 1/2″ double thickness panel with turrets at the top. I need to route channels for wiring, and then glue it together. The wiring will run between the panels so there is no exposed wiring.

Turret template

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I completed the template to use when cutting out all of the turret notches. I made a template for my template by taping scraps of 1/2″ MDF to some hard board. Then used my hand held Makita router to cut the template notches.20160217_173211

Sketchup Plan

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This is a screenshot of my Sketchup Plan. I have somewhere between 40-60 hrs in drawing the plan. Mostly because it has been about a year since I used Sketchup and I had to do a lot of re-learning.sketchup bed

This is what it will look like

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http://www.instructables.com/id/Building-a-Pretty-Princess-Castle-Bed-your-Child-w/

Unfortunately the project on instructables provided inspiration but almost no direction as to how to build the project. I have reverse engineered the project to a point where I think I can accurately duplicate it. I know I have minor variations but it’s very close to the original. One of the many questions on the instructables post asked if the back panel was also a double thickness. The question like almost all others went unanswered. I could see the double thickness at the back panel turrets but later found that only about 1/5 of the back panel is double. The majority of it is single thickness. Hopefully this blog as well as comments I am posting on instructables will prevent others from making some of the mistakes I have made and others that I will undoubtedly make.