Hi Tim,
I did not work on the frame in Fig 24 - if I did that would make me about 480 years old ! I have however slept in the bed shown in Fig 24. The more observant of you will note that the leg of the bed appears to be propped up on books and that is because a large hump in the floor has developed due to subsidence in the front wall.
Don,
I agree your comments about modern day power equipment not providing adequate "slop" clearance in the mortice and thus I rather suspect that frames made thus will be much more subject to the development of large shrinkage cracks.
Regards
Ken Hume
