"Chris" wrote in message
I am interested in doing some Arts & Crafts projects. I would be using
quadrilinear Posts. The thing that worries me is everything I read talks
of
gluing 4 boards around a center post, making what looks & feels like a
solid
post capable of taking mortises etc, but why doesn't the center post cause
some failure in the glued post? I would have thought seasonal movement on
the internal post would exert pressure on the miter locked sides?

Stickley basically used two methods that have stood the test of time, so you
might want to consider how he did it instead:

Veneering the flat sawn faces with quarter sawn stock; and gluing together
four quarter sawn pieces cut in a trapezoidal shape, with notches, and that
left a hollow center, unlike your description of a "post" for a center.

FWW (Taunton Press) has a book out called "In the Craftsman Style" which
gives a good description of both, including a way to do the latter using
modern router bits. Might want to check your library for a copy.

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