Corner desk

Re: Corner desk

Barry Irby

A few more details would be useful. Do you want it to be knock down or permanent?

Google "Countertop bolts".

Festool has a solution for the 700 model Domino.

Then there are dowels and many more.

Re: Corner desk

Lee Schierer in McKean, PA

Where I used to work we had corner desks and there was a metal plate that was screwed to the bottom of both parts. The plate was about 4" wide and about 1/16" thick and was an inch or two shorter than the desk parts on each end.

Lee

Re: Corner desk

Yonak

Aprons and interior braces between the aprons could help.

Re: Corner desk

William Duffield

Does your concept of a "corner" desk mean one with a triangular top, a pentagonal top, an L-shaped top, or a rectangular top with a non-coplanar rectangular return? What materials and construction techniques are you planning to use for the top surface(s)?

Re: Corner desk

William Duffield

For example, this corner desk that I built probably is nothing like what you had in mind, but it does fit your description.

It's construction is board and batten, a perfectly acceptable choice for my desk, unless you don't understand differential wood movement and the details of the fastening method that are hidden in the photograph.

Re: Corner desk

Gitche Gumee Kid

Planing on a simple L-shaped co planer top using pine. I like your board and batten approach.

Much obliged to all,

GGK

Re: Corner desk

Don Stephan

Figure eights, wooden buttons in slots in the apron, pocket screws in elongated holes in the apron.

Re: Corner desk

William Duffield

Make sure you elongate the screw holes in the battens perpendicular to the grain direction of the top boards. The boards and the battens in the desk in my pictures are all flat sawn ash. The boards of the top are glued with regular TiteBond and spring joints.

Re: Corner desk

johannaj

This office room is about 11 feet wide. The desk top is three pieces. I joined them with countertop bolts.