I'm not even a novice when it comes to woodworking, but I'm going to build a
4-foot long picnic table from plans for an 8-foot table - aside from the top
pieces being 4 foot long instead of 8, everything else should be the same,
except for the diagonal braces that go from the underside of the table down
to the inside of the legs. The 8-foot plans describe the legs as "They
should be cut with a 17 degree angle roughly 44 inches per side." - I'm
assuming that since the table length I'm building is 1/2 of the original
plan, the length of the diagonals should be 1/2 of the original length,
too - what about the angle of the cut? 34 degrees? Thanks!