I am making a bed that will have 2x8 rails attached to 4x4 posts via mortise and tenon.
I know panels within a frame are kept loose as one shouldn't glue that wide a connection because of movement in different directions.
Can i glue real wide tenons?
Would two tenons of lesser width on the same connection be safer?
Or some other joint/connection?
Is this overthinking? I watched the trailer video by the English Woodworker Richard Maguire for making English style benches and he used wide cross members with glued half-lap joints on the trestles.
I did as well, is that a potential problem?
Wood is some type/s of conifers on both bed and bench.