Breadboard ends

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 ...

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…

Gary Rogowski demonstrates, step by step, four methods for keeping tabletops and wide panels flat.

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 employ breadboard ends to keep things flat…

Gary Rogowski demonstrates his methods for this traditional yet strong breadboard end.

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

Make a Conference Table & How to Cut Breadboard Ends: This Instructable will walk you through the process on making a tabletop with breadboard ends. The table I'm making here is a conference table but it can be scaled up or down to suit your specific needs. This table top is 10’ long, 3’ wide and made …

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...

Happy #flashbackfriday all! It's getting about that time to take my cedar coffee table off the back deck for the winter and I'm happy to report that a year and a half later this thing is still looking like the day it was made. This was such a fun project to build! The finishing process was so time consuming but apparently worth it. The epoxy seal coat topped with Epifanes did the trick and the breadboard ends have held up too even with the crazy humidity and scorching sun of Tennessee…

If you are doing breadboard ends on a project that will only be viewed from one side, say perhaps a sofa table or hall table that you never see the back side of the top with any regularity, could you glue instead the front third or so, so that you don’t get the misalignment of the front breadboard and field on a regular basis? Or would that lead to cracking, and/or misalignment still?