Ikea’s new wedge dowel joint makes stronger furniture and faster assembly(2017)(curbed.com)
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Ikea’s new wedge dowel joint makes stronger furniture and faster assembly(2017)
https://www.curbed.com/2017/1/19/14317744/ikeas-furniture-assembly-wedge-dowel-joint
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The real secret to Ikea furniture lasting is to glue all the pieces together as you assemble.
That is blasphemous! It would be like gluing Legos together.
Which is what they do at Legoland.
Looks like a modified sliding dovetail.
Who knew that joinery techniques hundreds of years old could make furniture stronger?
Who knew that joinery techniques hundreds of years old could make furniture stronger?
We might have known that, but I didn't know that they could be manufactured at scale and then assembled by the lowest common denominator while maintaining acceptable quality.
I thought that these techniques were stuck in my father's woodshop.
I thought that these techniques were stuck in my father's woodshop.
I wonder if Ikea helps enable geographic mobility: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/10/does-ikea-enable-mobility