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<p>[QUOTE="William Klopfenstein, post: 4435955, member: 74234"][ATTACH=full]380449[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]380450[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]380451[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]380463[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]380464[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]380465[/ATTACH] I have a rope bed which has been in my family since forever. I am wondering how old it might be. All of the rope beds which I have read about were held together at the corners with steel bolts which engage nuts which were inserted into the side rails. Mine is different. The side rails have threaded dowels inserted into their ends. These protrude through the corner posts and are secured with wooden nuts. The first photo is of the bed which measures 68.5 inches long, inside the frame, and 42.5 inches wide, again inside the frame. The photos don;t show th true color of the bed. It is actually much darker. I believe that it might be walnut. The second photo is a close-up of one of the nuts. As I look through the dim recesses of my memory, I think that I replaced the dowels in the footboard, so those protruding dowels are probably on me. The dowels in the headboard are nearly flush. The only metal which I can find in this unit consists of four pins or nails, one in the top of each of the tenons, presumably to hold the threaded dowel in place. These are round, If they are nails, were they put in when the unit was originally made, or added later, perhaps as part of a repair. I had to replace both of th e dowels in one of the side rails. I made a jig to follow the thread on an original. broken part, so I could match the original thread pitch, 4.375 tpi. The wood threading tools which I have found available today produce threads of 6tpi for one-inch stock. Any insight into how old this piece might be would be appreciated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="William Klopfenstein, post: 4435955, member: 74234"][ATTACH=full]380449[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]380450[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]380451[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]380463[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]380464[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]380465[/ATTACH] I have a rope bed which has been in my family since forever. I am wondering how old it might be. All of the rope beds which I have read about were held together at the corners with steel bolts which engage nuts which were inserted into the side rails. Mine is different. The side rails have threaded dowels inserted into their ends. These protrude through the corner posts and are secured with wooden nuts. The first photo is of the bed which measures 68.5 inches long, inside the frame, and 42.5 inches wide, again inside the frame. The photos don;t show th true color of the bed. It is actually much darker. I believe that it might be walnut. The second photo is a close-up of one of the nuts. As I look through the dim recesses of my memory, I think that I replaced the dowels in the footboard, so those protruding dowels are probably on me. The dowels in the headboard are nearly flush. The only metal which I can find in this unit consists of four pins or nails, one in the top of each of the tenons, presumably to hold the threaded dowel in place. These are round, If they are nails, were they put in when the unit was originally made, or added later, perhaps as part of a repair. I had to replace both of th e dowels in one of the side rails. I made a jig to follow the thread on an original. broken part, so I could match the original thread pitch, 4.375 tpi. The wood threading tools which I have found available today produce threads of 6tpi for one-inch stock. Any insight into how old this piece might be would be appreciated.[/QUOTE]
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