need ideas (more)

[Susan Kline]

At 10:54 PM 04/09/2001 -0500, Keith wrote:
>I'm going to take three pieces of hard rock maple 1' x 4" x 57 1/4", locate
>them evenly spaced from top to bottom and join the five back posts
>together.  I feel confident this will make a remarkable change in the
>stability.
>
>Still open to any other constructive ideas that someone might have, or ones
>that someone has possibly implemented and had success.


This is an interesting idea, Keith. Perhaps it would be better, if harder,
to angle the pieces, so that they make diagonals. Triangles are far more
stable than rectangles. Two fasteners at each intersection with the backposts
would be better than one, I think. Are "one-bys" thick enough?

Susan