"woodchucker" wrote in message

On 10/24/2013 11:15 AM, dadiOH wrote:
I may have asked this before; if so, apologies but if
I did ask I didn't get solutions that worked for me.

I need to build a pair of sofa tables to wrap around a
sectional; ie, the tables will be at right angles to
each other. The distance along the long wing of the
sectional is ten feet. I plan to make the tables about
16" wide and 28" tall. My problem lies in where the tables will
meet..they
will have to be moved occasionally for
cleaning/whatever so I need for them to be firmly
joined but easily separated. I'm thinking of reducing
the length of the tables themselves by 16" each and
using a third piece at the juncture, 16" square and
full width sides rather than separate legs (like a
cabinet), but how to hook the whole works together? I could, of course,
simply screw each long table to the
16" square one but I'm looking for a more elegant
way...one that doesn't make holes in the nice,
expensive mahogany I'll be using. I also thought of
putting a bracket on the 16" square table - I don't
mind marring it - that would hook under the adjacent
end rails of the long tables; with that scenario, each
long table would only have legs at the outboard end.
That could work but would leave the inboard end of the
long tables unsupported when they are unattached;
still, that's the best solution I've come up with yet. Other ideas?


See alt binaries. I think that locking joint might be the
ticket.. it allows you to lock them together or pick up a
piece and move them apart.

Thanks. That's pretty much what I had visualized for the bracket I
mentioned.

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dadiOH
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