"RicodJour" wrote in message

The 1/3 cantilever rule of thumb is fine for wood joists and such, but
it's misleading as soon as you change materials or have dissimilar
materials trying to act in concert. I pointed that out to someone and
they got mad.

In your rush to show us your ass, you missed the point entirely.

In the OP's case, the advice of applying a rough approximation of the
cantilever principle has NOTHING to do with "dissimilar materials" and
EVERYTHING to do with attempting a 12" overhang from a 6" counter top!!

Since you missed/ignored it, know that your new hero, who's ass you've been
kissing publicly in this thread, clearly stated the same thing:

Along with other many good points, Swingman hit it right on the nose
when he discussed cantilevering. The brackets move the tipping point
(fulcrum) forward.

The concept of the wREC is not to attempt to blow us away with "wordy" (your
own admission), self imagined intellect, but to provide _practical_ advice
for the OP to use in solving his problem.

Try to keep that in mind ...

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