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Cake day: September 23rd, 2023

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  • I’m not sure about the dowels

    The bridle joint will want to pivot and the desk acts as a big lever exerting a lot of force onto that joint with a large force multiplier.

    It might be worth upgrading the dowels to steel bolts, but I don’t know a lot about the strength of wood under these forces.

    If the dowel is 1” In and the Z is 48” long (no idea if that’s close), it exerts 48x the desk weight on to the dowels. You look at oak, a desk top of 50lb, a 1” dowel would be at over twice its breaking point. Two dowels and glue in the joint would will help, but steel bolts will have a much higher rating against shear here.

    All of this is napkin math, and I’m not an expert at all here.