Sapodilla Headboard

Listing #2951 Listed on: 10/24/2010 Company Name: TonyR gc
Name: Tony R Member

It started when I needed a playform for my new matress. I did want the plastic thing they sold. So about a year later I finished this.
Sapodilla slabs from a tree knocked down during hurricane Wilma with orchard walnut posts. Each slab has four tenons with allowances for expansion and contraction. Threaded inserts, setscrews, and steel angle epoxied into tenon provide squeezed tight assembly and breakdown capability. The screws are concealed in back.

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Posted By:Tony R
Figuering out how I was going to move this 175 alone was a problem that needed solving. I new I need tenons and if I glued it expansion or shrinking could be problematic. Visible set screw was not an option even though I could make a little cover to hide them. I drilled four 3/4 inch counter sunk holes into the back side of the walnut posts. At the bottom of the counter sink I inserted a threaded insert for the particular set screw I chose which was made of brass in this case. the screw is tightened and the but end clamps down on the broad sid of a tenon. A metal screw chewing into the tenons would not provide a tight slab to post conection. In fact in that case clamps would be needed to squeeze them together while the screw was tighted. Clamp use was unacceptable to me so I let the problem stew a few days. My succesful solution was to chisle a V shaped pocket into the tenon and to a 1" section of 3/4" x 3/4" angle iron which I epoxied into the V notch I chisled. I shaped the end of my set screws to the shape of a sharp point with a grinder. When the screw is tightened it catches the side of the Angle iron V in such a way that it draws the tenon into the post. all with a Large philips screw driver. This is done on the floor and then the head board is raised like a wall; keep your back strait. The screw heads are hidden in the counter sink holes. it worked vary well with four screws and you can not tell its not glued up.

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