This headboard is just what we wanted for our cabin! It is also just as advertised... made of cedar logs.  The price was certainly right as well.  Yes, you do have to use a mallet to bang the center and outside parts of the headboard together, but that was no problem.  And, yes, there are cracks in the posts, but if you don't want those cracks in your headboard you shouldn't be ordering a cedar log headboard! That is how these are supposed to be!