3 way joint

[GrahamIreland]

Hi I'm planning on doing a coffee table round and would like to have 3 leg design. Prob bridle joint on outside but all meeting at centre. How is it best to meet at centre or overlap? They'd be 120 degrees each.

Graham

 

[MikeG.]

Draw it Graham, or post a link to something similar. It's hard to understand precisely what you are aiming for.

 

[AndyT]

Do you mean you want horizontal braces between the legs, which overlap at the centre?
Like this

From http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/ ... s/_g_T.htm

 

[Steliz]

Maybe like this -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vd2P0PeXB8

 

[woodbloke66]

Here's some I did on a Japanese floor lamp a few years ago:

Not too difficult - Rob

 

[Racers]

I made some 3 legged occasional tables and did a decorative spline in the middle.

VIV_5442_00005_zpsbe816cbe by pete maddex, on Flickr

And a disk at the bottom.

VIV_5443_00006_zps9982469f by pete maddex, on Flickr

VIV_5445_zps3a37c51f by pete maddex, on Flickr

Pete

 

[GrahamIreland]

Sorry ya should of scratched it Mike.
It's a bit what like Pete suggested but maybe somekind of overlap?

 

[Fitzroy]

A much less structurally important version on a lamp I made. I incorporated a brass plate as I was worried about strength. There are a few other suggestions from others in the thread..

Fitz

 

[GrahamIreland]

Or with some kind of overlap or joinery perhaps...

 

[Racers]

I just remembered another 3 way joint, my dining table stretcher, its made with a home made 3 ply spline.
Made from beech a thin ply each side of a thicker one.

DSC_0119 by pete maddex, on Flickr

Pete

 

[TheTiddles]

I have a coffee table with that joint between 3 legs butt-mitred together 2x3 in elm. It’s got 2 sodding great 3-way loose tenons made from 18mm birch ply glued with epoxy, solid it is.

Aidan