Reply To: When you must use hardware instead of glue.

I dont’t think you got the point. Not too big as too big to be able to build it, but too big to go through the door… Even a bed, if it has a headboard/footboard, I don’t know how to get it in the room….

I feel that my answer still applies. Joints can be made to work just fine in the absence of glue, at least in a great many cases. Wedges and tusks and such have yielded knockdown furniture for centuries, probably millennia. And heck, you could use hyde glue, but let’s pretend that’s not an option.

Here’s a video of a bed, made entirely by hand and entirely with knockdown joints:

Now I’m not saying “This is the only way!” Again, hardware, imho, is often a wonderful thing, and if you want to use it, then I say two thumbs up and post pix when you’re done! However, I still maintain and haven’t seen anything which disproves my initial position that hardware is not necessary.