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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">I have a prop friend who may have done one of these before... let me ask and see if he has a suggestion.<br>
FWIW, until I hear from him, we did a breakaway coat rack using rubber cement. <br>
Steven R Hood </p>
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<p style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 10pt 0;">On February 7, 2018 12:09:55 PM Paul Anderson via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net> wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Think round and old west and saloon.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">What if I wanted a table that could break in two with a [fake] head slam? </div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">More or less normal construction with a balsa board down the middle?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Normal-ish construction with a saw cut (or crooked) break across the middle held by thin strips of something like pine ore lauan underneath?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">If it has side rails-as many/most tables do-they would have to be able to pull away from legs or also break.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I haven't seen much in terms of how-to info online that didn't look just plain hokey. Has someone done this other than the movies or is there a URL for better information than what I have come across so far?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Paul Anderson<br>Technical Director for Theater<br>Hope College<br><br><br></div>
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