Bar's bolt together frame

[madgrizzle]

@Sharpsburg_Woodworke, I have to ask. You used a 3/8-inch spade to drill through the edge of the 2x4, correct? Did you do it by hand and if so, how far off center (if any) did it come out the backside? I really struggled with the 1/2-inch bit I used when I tried to do it by hand:

New Stock Frame Design

So I ran the tests and here’s the executive summary. I find that both designs are incredibly strong. @bar’s design is immovable and with only three screws and without glue set up, I had to apply all the force I could to get a creak out of @dlang’s design. I think tomorrow after the glue dries, it will be immovable as well. I don’t know that glue is needed, I put all I had into it just to get the slightest of movement. There’s no way the sled will exert that much dynamic force onto the join…

Hopefully it’s just me that has problems.