There are lots of images to upload for this post and you all know how much I can dribble on and on… so watch out for this one, it’s going to be big! Firstly I think adding my plan for the bed to the blog actually helped me along for this because I have made a huge amount of progress and, I even like it.
Pretty much the dealio (if you are going to be making a swirlified wired contraption like this) is to use jigs (especially if you need equal parts and duplicate parts but since I was going for whimsical and arty I through all the straight lines (well mostly) out of the -as yet to be completed window- and started to stick my metal bits onto another sketch of the plan (yes… yes I did leave my sketch in a book on my desk at work! aargh! Luckily I had a photo of it…).
Soldering is something I did for a semester back in the old days when I was doing circuts and divices in my electronic engineering degree (I only did that for a year then I wandered off the reservation for a while). I loved it but mostly it’s not like riding a bicycle. Not that I can tell you _really_ since I haven’t actually been on a bike in a long time.
I guess though all you need is for