Learn To Assemble Log Furniture

Learn To Assemble Log Furniture

by

Victor Epand

Many customers or potential customers are fearful of how much work it will be to assemble their log furniture once it is purchased, but hopefully these tips will help to clear up some of the questions that naturally arise.

While each type of assembly instructions will vary between log furniture manufacturers, there are many similarities as well. Most rustic cased goods, such as dressers, chests, night stands and armoires require very little assembly at all. As a general rule, you will take off doors and drawer handles to avoid damage during shipping, as they tend to protrude and be at risk.

There are holes in the drawer fronts or doors, and of course the screws are included, so for these items it is simply a matter of placing the wood furniture handle over the holes, inserting the screws through the door or drawer into the hole, and tightening things up. Most of the Amish manufacturers like to assemble the head boards on the log beds themselves. Some times they leave the four corner legs off for ease in shipping, as the beds can be some what massive and making them smaller helps save on shipping cost.

Most Amish furniture makers use gorilla glue, which is an incredibly strong glue. Once they glue the head board, then you might as well forget trying to take it apart. So as a general rule, Amish head boards and foot boards come completely assembled. At the very minimum, the ladder portion that goes across between the two posts is already assembled and glued. If the posts are not attached, then you have to plug the two horizontal ladder portions of the bed into the four corner posts.

That means the mattress and box springs are supported by a wood frame. As a general rule, two logs run down the side of each bed, at the base of the box springs. These logs are plugged into the head board and foot board at each end. The bottom of these two logs has holes drilled for three cross logs, which go across and support the bed. The middle cross log, on most Amish beds, has a little log piece, which goes down to the floor to offer a higher degree of support.

If you have never seen an Amish bed frame before, then you might have to look at those logs for a minute to figure it out. However, once you understand, then it is really pretty straight forward. You will want a screw driver, as you will want to drive some two and a half inch wood screws near where the log ends or chucks as they are called, plug into their appointed holes.

This secures the entire frame, and together with the heavy dollop of gorilla glue already administered by the Amish, makes it even stronger. A rubber mallet also comes in pretty handy at times, to tap an ornery piece of wood into place. However, you can use a regular hammer if you protect the wood by putting a book or something in between.

Assembly of low post log beds with metal frames is even easier. Generally, the ladder portions come pre-assembled, so all you have to do is plug the chucks into the four corner posts and drive in the wood screws provided to secure them. Most or our beds with metal frames have pre-installed lag bolts on the head board and foot board logs. You simply take the metal frame and hook it over the lag bolts on each, then fasten the nuts to secure the bed.

Log beds with metal frames are very sturdy and probably a bit easier to assemble then the one hundred percent log beds. They also take a little less room sideways, as they do not have the log side rails on the side. You can get decorative log side rails to fasten over the metal bed frame, if having a bed frame showing bothers you. You can also cover up the metal bed frame with a skirt, and it will not show when the bed is made anyway.

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