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Ikea’s new wedge dowel joint makes stronger furniture and faster assembly(2017)
- matt_s 9y agoLooks like a modified sliding dovetail. Who knew that joinery techniques hundreds of years old could make furniture stronger?
- winthrowe 9y agoWe 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.
- PuffinBlue 9y agoMaybe not the lowest common denominator: https://youtu.be/XjE4q2EyzoQ https://youtu.be/XjE4q2EyzoQ
- norikki 9y ago> White male CEO is the only one to actually finish Does anyone seriously still think the wage gap is due to sexism/racism?
- jseliger 9y agoIkea is easy to make fun of, but it's really done a lot of interesting work. Tim Harford lists the Billy Bookcase as one of the 50 inventions that shape the modern economy: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38747485 http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38747485 I wonder if Ikea helps enable geographic mobility: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/10/does-ikea-enable-mobility https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/10/does-ikea-enable-mobility
- jarjoura 9y agoThe real secret to Ikea furniture lasting is to glue all the pieces together as you assemble.
- sschueller 9y agoThat is blasphemous! It would be like gluing Legos together.
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoWhich is what they do at Legoland.