Hi Tony, does Steve's tip help? I'm still not really sure that I understand exactly what you've been asking about.

Like Steve mentions, if you want to have 2 pieces that look like they come from one continuous thing, it tends to be easiest to model it as one bigger piece and then cut that up into pieces rather than modeling each piece all on its own.

You can do that kind of cutting by drawing in a side profile and then using the Boolean difference command to cut your large solid by the curve - that will slice the solid up into 2 separate solids. The "Crown of clubs" video tutorial does that at one point as well.

- Michael