How To Make A Baby Crib / Cot 

It will be such a proud Dad moment when you see your kid in the bassinet. On the store bought bassinets I’ve seen, the base under the mattress usually has some sort of airflow which will, hopefully provide air if something goes wrong and the little one rolls over or falls below a blanket and needs to breathe. It could be worth drilling a series of 25mm holes in that MDF just to be safe. My first child was born 10 days ago, I always wanted to build him a cot but chickened out for safety reasons, but I’ll definitely be building him his first bed. Good luck with your little one and I hope to see more kid projects in the future.

OMG, what a wonderful gift for your child. You are going to make a great dad.

Really good job! I like how you use tools that are more commonly available to the home woodworker, especially without a table saw. Good job.

Your idea which allows the bed to be lifted from the suspension is outstanding. I also like your use of the speed square with the router. I'll be using your ideas soon as I've a grandchild due June 1 and a great grandchild due July 1.

Awesome buddy, you will love co sleeping nothing sweeter than having your babs right next to you. Our son is 15 months old and is still with us.

Great job. The different features/customability are fantastic. They show you really put some thought into it.

Nice build. A few comments though: Try if it is solid without the full length dowel rod, but instead insert a a small one with a cap only on one side. Fiddling with the long one will get on your nerves pretty soon - if youhappen to switch several times a day. Depending on visitors and dogs around, a small brass pin above the 25mm swing axis might be helpful to secure it on the legs.

Congratulations to you and your wife Robin on the birth of your upcoming child! This project turned out great and believe me you'll need it! Next you'll have to figure out how to work a foot pedal to keep it rocking late at night when you're sitting up with the baby LOL!

As always Robin you do great work. What a great gift to your family and congratulations!!

Bassinet/sleeper was beautifully done! Thank you. Especially unique and very solid design features were the added strength for the pendulum dowel and then the substantial added strength you provided for the legs. The wonderful feature for any new family was the full bed mode, very cleaver and thoughtful.

Man I don't have a equipment to buit.... But I am sure I can if I had... Awesome crib...

Never heard of cosleeper, but it love the design and multi functionality

Congratulations in advance for your new kid.

Very cool design, Robin. Very nicely done, love it!

Really nice design.

Built with love 👍👍👍👍

great job Rob, much better than the creaky Moses baskets we used for our brats, I mean sweet darling children, one tip I'd give though is in the early weeks having an insert of some sort to make it smaller, I found that the slept better is they were in a close-fitting space, your weather might negate that though. You and J must be so excited nevermind your Ma who I bet is bursting at the seams.

Good video! The second variant - to buy our 8 in 1 Crib made from solid pine wood

Nice Job Man!

Thanks Robin, well done.

Simple🏅Practical🏅YOU should sale this idea to IKEA or alike stores!👍

Do you have the specs on? What would you use lengths and how to actually make it

very nice !

Thanks for sharing. Liked and subscribed. Btw, could you share the blueprint/plan?

If you make the mortise and tenons too tight, when you put glue on them, they will expand, making it impossible to close the joint.

Is there a pdf of the plans or step-by-step instructions available?

Any drownings and plans for this. Looking to build one.

Do you share your plans

Baie wel gedaan!!! Dit lyk awesome

Cool dog, can we see more of the dog lol.

Do you sale your swing crib

should the glue be special? because what I know is that, glue is different for baby products, since they may fume formaldehyde..

Hi. How heavy is the "removable" cradle part (w/o the legs)? Curious if my wife would be able to carry something like this with a baby inside. Thank you!

9:58, Are those EXTENTION CORDS holding up your workpiece?

Thanku for the idiya nice 👍👍🙏🙏🌳

do you have any plans for sale on this crib

What do you think of that Bunnings drill press? P.s great stuff, I’m motivated by your motivation

36 people’s who dislike the video I think they doesn’t like the baby

Simple design and it seems pretty easy to do, but honestly I wouldn't go for it. I find it a bit ugly and not that functional. But props to you for making it, but you should had buyed a lathe and had done something a little bit more polished because the whole thing looks a bit cheap or "version 1.0". In fact I find this whole build a bit "lazy" because with a little more thinking and some more work it would have been better, for example the rod who's blocking the whole thing from rocking could have been made differently to be more functional. To each his own taste tho.

شوية.الون الجوزي بيه.🛏

Congratulations! What a lucky child to grow up in such a creative environment. Beautiful build & best wishes from the entire NT&S crew.

Hi! How did you joined the four panels tougher please?

Looking good Robin. And thanks for the shout out. I know this is a bit 20/20 hindsight, but for your tenons, have you considered setting up a router table and some sort of mitre gauge to speed up production? That way you'd only have to measure out one, setup a fence/stop block, and power through the rest

Excellent build! I'm expecting my first child soon. Would you happen to have plans for this build?

What great project! I really enjoyed this , Thank-you. Congratulations by the way on just throwing away any chances of ever having any spare cash or "shop time" for at least the next twenty years! Of course I'm joking, enjoy your time with your new child and once again Congratulations to you and Mrs Lewis. N.

Loved it. Lovely to hear the South African accent 🙂

What's the measurements for the crib

Robin, very nice build, looks strong and very functional. I was wondering if you can share the general dimentions of it? Thanks in advance great share

Can you please make this for my baby..

hi good day. could you please include the cutting list

I like it, Robin! It has a lot of great features. I really like how you can use it for multiple things.

Very, very niiice 👍🏻😃

Love your ideas and problem solutions, getting by with the tools you have . . . you're going to make a great woodworker. Cheers

I've watched this video twice now. Thinking about making this for my son. I really appreciate you making this video. Do you happen to have a cut sheet that you would be willing to share? Awesome design

I hv so many questions

cool man , looks good

Nice job! Like your work place too.

Great job

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This is great work! Expecting it to go "gangbusters!!"

You killed it.....until you lifted the 50lb "bassinet" off the stand. It was still a good video but that ending, I think, hurt it. I would have ended it at being right next to you! That's all women want is their newborn right next to them!

Beautiful project.. Very functional... Can the stopper be shorter

What if baby rolls to a side of the bed. Just thinking out loud

do you have plans for this for sale?

Finally got a chance to watch and I gotta say it turned out great, but more so it looks like a well thought out and executed project. I like it!

@9:11, can hear the beginning of Fall Out Boy 's Sugar, We're Going Down Swinging

sir can you give me the drawing this project sir i want to make it in the university project....can you help me sir

Nice build! Love the combination of techniques you use.

Nice build and good to see a maker that doesn't have a selection of festool toys :). Your method of gaping your slats from each side is fine, I usually start my slats at the centre and work out to the sides which puts any discrepancy up against the ends, but either method is good I think. Thanks for a great video and I hope the bay appreciates dad's work on this. Thankyou.

Hey Mate, do you have plans for this build?

Great job, Robin! Was a fun watch and your method of working to get your joinery done was simple and quite smart. Bravo! And congrats on the baby to come!

Almost makes me want to have a kid so I can build this... almost. But then again I enjoy sleep ;) ...might make myself one 😂

Very nice work and proportions, looks great. Would you share overall dimensions and also for the slats its gaps and rails ?

Well done! Hearing about this on the podcast seemed to make it more interesting to me. A couple of small points: If you start measuring the slats out from the middle of the rail, using your block there is even less opportunity to detect any minor differences in spacing at the ends. and... It could be argued, you don't even need glue for the thin vertical slats. Epoxy is expensive and with a bit of practice (especially with dry assembly) you should get down to an acceptable time to use regular PVA without any concern it will go off too quickly. Thanks for the video. Cheers, David

Congrats... kids are great.

Fantastic Craftsmanship Bud!! Very well made. I found you through Jon Peters & subbed right away!! Hope all is well & Greetings from Jersey USA!!

I've heard good feedback about the Woodglut plans.

Robin awesome job. It’s amazing how much work you get done with relatively small amount of tools. Also like that you use a mix of power and hand tools. Oh side note I tried sending pictures to the podcast let me know if you have a bunch of pictures of wood with no name yeah that would be me lmao.

1:35 you could have used a drill press vice

Nice crib! Aside from.. You know.. Your house

Is it possible to explain my wood sizes

Where is your table saw?

Nice job mate. How long would a baby stay in a crib like that? Planning on making a bigger cot too?

Really nice project man!

Beautiful...I am making this one too...thanks for the ideas

Nice work mate great idea

Am on here on RU-vid searching for DIY crib and happy that i found this video! my husband and i have just recently rented a tools from mygaragerentals.com (i wonder if anyone has heard of this) at an amazing fee and we cant wait to recreate these for our little one so thank you !!

your work is very professional.

As always mate, entertaining, educational and inspiring! BIG congrats on the imminent arrival of the wee one too! :-) Projects aplenty ie cots, beds, toys etc. Look forward to it all ! Cheerz.

What oil is good for cots?

Pretty cool !!!

Nicely done. Robin.

Nice welcome to the dads club

Great job Robin & congrats in advance, Meranti also used to be known as Philippine Mahogany in Oz

Should put some holes in the bottom sheet for the mattress to get air. Looks great! And congrats on the coming baby!

Lot of usage of the speed square, very interesting! Thank you for sharing this build!

I have to hand it to you. I created a cosleeper and just doweled it all together. Great project.

1:42 can you please tell me where can i buy those insert points? thanks a lot, came out nice!

Will this fit a 6 month old, how long did it take to make?

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW UPCOMING ADDITION.