Breadboard ends

Cross-grain construction tends to freak out most beginning woodworkers, but it’s a viable construction method in many cases. Wide tables and chest lids often…

Given the below design which really violates the mechanical use for a breadboard, assuming that I were otherwise building a farmhouse table with pocket screws, what would be the appropriate way to ...

Concealing a tabletop's end grain using breadboard ends can be tricky. We show you how to make it work.

On panels like table tops or blanket chest lids you need some method of keeping them flat. Typically you use some sort of mechanical support like a cleat or a breadboard end. If you want to go the quick and easy route, the cleat is the method for you. It's a strip of wood that...

Breadboard ends serve the essential function of keeping tabletops flat. Gary Rogowski details four effective ways to attach them.

The classy way to prevent cupping The traditional breadboard end joint is, to my mind, one of woodworking’s slickest solutions for managing wood movement. It’s often used on tabletops, blanket chest lids, and other solid wood panels such as the lid for the tool chest. The purpose of the joint is to prevent a solid wood

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Check out the Video! Please Subscribe! In this article, I'm going to describe my process of making breadboard ends with drawbored joinery. All of the footage from the video and pictures used in this article came from my recent Farmhouse Table project. I got quite a few requests for a more detail

More than just a pretty edge, a breadboard hides end grain without blowing apart your solid-wood tabletop.

I love walnut and it's not every day I get to use such a large amount of it to make a custom farmhouse table out of walnut wood with traditional mortise and te…