{"id":507,"date":"2011-02-02T11:27:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T16:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/?p=507"},"modified":"2020-05-04T18:44:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T23:44:02","slug":"corner-protectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/2011\/02\/corner-protectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Corner Protectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corner protectors aren&#8217;t just for homes with little kids running around constantly bumping into things: I have learned through painful experience that the sharp corners on melamine-coated fiberboard easily rip through fabric and skin.<\/p>\n<p>I run a round-off router bit over all my exposed woodwork edges whenever possible, but with glued melamine and some finished furniture you can&#8217;t do that.  A few years ago I found some soft plastic corner cushions that unobtrusively provided excellent protection against scrapes and dented foreheads.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/img\/Babies_R_Us_Corner_Cushions_in_action.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Recently I built a bunch of new shelves with exposed corners that I wanted to soften and I spent weeks looking for the same corner protectors.  It turns out that my preferred solution is also by far the cheapest of the many competing products ($3.50 for eight), and that these are available only at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toysrus.com\/product\/index.jsp?productId=3747467\">Babies R Us<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/img\/Babies_R_Us_Corner_Cushions.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Some people complain that the adhesive that comes with these is too weak to stand up to real children.  If you want them to really stick you&#8217;ll need to attach them with Goop, silicone, or some other strong transparent adhesive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corner protectors aren&#8217;t just for homes with little kids running around constantly bumping into things: I have learned through painful experience that the sharp corners on melamine-coated fiberboard easily rip through fabric and skin. I run a round-off router bit over all my exposed woodwork edges whenever possible, but with glued melamine and some finished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[103,105,104],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","tag-corner-bumpers","tag-corner-cushions","tag-corner-guards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po3d1-8b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}