Question about bed frame brackets

The best ways I have found is

My favorite look:
1) the embed the bed bolt nut in the lower tenon of the headboard/footboard.
The bolt is in the rail, which must be extra thick to accomodate.

or

2) Use a barrel type nut embedded in the rail of the bed, and the bolt goes
through the post of the headboard/footboard, and then you use a decorative
bolt cover.

or

3) If you don't want to use bolts, you can drill a large hole and fill it
with a hardwood dowel "peg" to create cross-grain.

One of the more recent issues of Fine Woodworking went through the
merits/drawbacks of the different ways to tackle this issue.


"Rich" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I may need plans for a head board and foot board. The problem I'm facing
> with my homemade design is installing the brackets: they go with the
> grain,
> which it will split the wood with the weight and stress (like kids jumping
> on the bed would split them like firewood). How should the head/foot
> boards
> be constructed so that bed frame brackets can be installed? Thanks.
>
>

"Rich" <[email protected]> wrote in news:aIhJd.5066$xu.2666@fed1read05:

> I may need plans for a head board and foot board. The problem I'm
> facing with my homemade design is installing the brackets: they go
> with the grain, which it will split the wood with the weight and
> stress (like kids jumping on the bed would split them like firewood).
> How should the head/foot boards be constructed so that bed frame
> brackets can be installed? Thanks.
>

Cheat. Use a heavy duty metal frame to support the mattress and box
springs. If you use the wood bed frame boards at all, this makes them
pretty much decorative.

Patriarch