Love that you genuinely seem like a student of woodworking. Never pretentious, always practicing, always learning.

Andy, what do you find so fulfilling about woodworking? it kind of seems complicated, yet simple. I do LOVE your work in creating REAL furniture.

I like that spring joint idea - I'll have to incorporate that into my breadboard ends. A few suggestions: 1.) I like to drill the peg holes through the end piece first, then put it onto the table top, then tap a brad point bit into the hole to mark the exact center on the tenons of the table top. Then remove the end and drill the hole through the tenons, but offsetting the hole just SLIGHTLY towards the middle of the table. That way when you drive the pegs in it will draw the breadboard end into the table top. 2.) Obviously you can't glue the outside pegs, but you can drive them 3/4 of the way in, then add a little bit of glue to the top of the dowel before driving it the remaining 1/4 of the way in. That way the peg is not glued inside the tenon, only fixed to the breadboard end itself on top and will keep it in place and nicely flush with the top.

I could watch you craft all day!! You are a true craftsman! Thanks for bringing us along on your journey.

Like to see him make one of those wood tool boxes.

The table and benches are absolutely gorgeous, Andy! I know you must be very proud of it! Great video!!!

Does anyone else find it funny that he has all this amazing equipment in his shop and uses that tiny, beat-up cart for his workbench? Love your stuff. Great info in this video!

Totally appreciate the commentary. Really helpful to understand why you do what you do and why you made the choices you do. When people don’t do the commentary I just fast forward through and see the results. Still interesting but not as good a way to learn something. Thanks for sharing

Thanks Andy, I have watched a lot of videos on how to do BB ends properly, but your demonstration ranks in the top 3 for me. BTW I much prefer to hear your narration than just a video with music in the background as with a lot of others.

Another project done well and looks great. Such skills.

I've used a Festool Domino tool to cut the mortices wide. I then machined shared tenons the same thickness as the Festool Dominos but wider. Blind holes through the tenons which has lateral play for expansion and pegged with dowels. Worked well. 🇦🇺

first time I see a mortising unit without all the smoke. Great video. Keep it up.

Thanks Andy, I was looking forward to seeing this when I watched the shop update video a little while ago. One of my first projects as a gateway into woodworking was a DIY farmhouse table and long story short I had issue with boards settling/adjusting. I love learning more and more about joinery rather than using hardware and strive to incorporate that into my builds

your control of the router is insane😁😁 awesome video

I am offering free help around the shop for tasks nobody wants to do.. basically a gopher in exchange for your knowledge. I live in SA and would be able to come in on days I’m not working at the VA. Your videos are amazing. Thanks

thank you very much! i was looking for this and just came rigth to your chanel

Absolutely beautiful table!!!

Excellent video. Great job !

That dedicated mortiser is great ! I have the adaptor for my drill press but that one is PERFECT ! This is the first time I have seen this tennon way. It makes a lot of sense to do it like this. Sweet build Andy !

Beautiful Work! You are very talented. Thank you for sharing.

That Oliver mortiser is drool worthy.

Perfect timing for me and my son. He's wanting to build an adjustable desk for himself. Thanks for posting and well done...new subscriber here!

Absolutely beautiful build and craftsmanship. Would you ever offer any "classes" to local or those willing to make the trip? I'd love to learn from you, although I do that through your videos. Thanks!

Awesome work Andy. From one Texas Rawls to another.

This video educated me about spring clamping 👍

Saw many ways to do this . I liked your version the best . Great video .

I got myself a japanese saw rasp my teacher at college has one and i like them they are really good! I was always borrowing his in the workshop

That wood is gorgeous.

Beautiful table. Great work.

I'd give anything if I had a shop like that! You have true talent man! I learn alot from your videos! Thanks

Hi Andy, I also made a breadboard on my dining table, but I decided to cut the tenon of the table top on the spindle moulder. Damn had a hard time pulling it straight as it was warped a little, wish I had applied your method with a router - a lot easier.

Great work Andy! Love your work mate.

Much better with the voice over

Cool shop man!

Excellent video, I learned so much, thank you, beautiful work Andy!

Very nice made 👍👍👍

Its beautiful! Just had to research the origin of the term ' Breadbord Ends'...interesting. Thanks.

Great job as always Dude! Absolutely amazing!!!

Nice video. Table turned out beautiful

you earned your tools brother

Thanks Andy love your work👍😊you put a lot of knowledge bombs in your videos👍😊

Learned a lot. Thanks for the video, Andy.

Enjoyed the video thanks for taking the time to share you have a blessed day

Without the "voiceover" sucks! It's basically ASMR at that point. I love the voiceover; it helps me understand what you're doing.

Great video! Love the hand plane.

Super enjoyed that video!

Great job! Thank you very much.

Great instruction, Andy. Couldn't you have made and extended base for the router for cleaning up the outer portion of the tenons? That would allow you use the router the whole way without worrying about it tipping. Also, that mortiser is a powered version of the antique mortiser that Roy Underhill (The Woodwright Shop on PBS) uses in his shop. Take care. Bill

Beautiful Andy

Beautiful table.

With my friends we loved to look your videos in the ore high school in Belgium the green tree Boys like your videos man

First time viewer. I love your work.

Go Bolts!!⚡️⚡️

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This joinery is my bread and butter

Only watched The Office five times through? Those are rookie numbers, sir! Great video and thank you for consistently awesome content.

I always struggle to get a good lacquer on tables. You had a video 4 years ago about lacquer but there are new products. Could you consider making an update about it?

These are breadboard ends or breadboard joints. I would like to point out some people change a joint to the extent that it no longer is that joint. A method using dominoes has been spreading on the web proclaiming this to be an easy or trick way to make this joint has begun to confuse people. So, on my mighty stead I ride. I find that many people are calling this Dominoe method of producing a Breadboard joint as an easy or trick method, should realize that this isn't a breadboard joint (or breadboard end) anymore. This is one reason it is easier since it isn't the joint anymore. This is a specific kind of joint and using dominoes has varied so far from this joint as to not be this joint anymore. I would also challenge those who think that it is, to consider if one made in the same way with dowels would still be a breadboard joint or if the dowels were totally eliminated and used a butt joint was still a breadboard end. It isn't the application of a board across the grain which produces this joint but the method of joinery, and the reason for doing this joinery in the first place.

Love this channel

Andy, great video. I read through the comments but did not see this question. What do the multiple haunch tenons add versus a single full width tenon?

Good video

Hey man, excellent video. You should check out the Samurai Carpenter’s channel. He made a router base plate out of plexiglass designed specifically to fix the issue of the router rocking when cutting material far from the edge. He’s pretty cool...for a Canadian.

Very nice!

I heard you mention leaving the over hang on the breadboard ends so that you if the main table top was to expand it would not expand past the bread board end. In your final shot of the table, that over hang seems to be pretty noticeable. Will the table start to expand that quickly that the over hang no longer becomes so noticeable?

Excellent video. Can someone explain why not to expand the hole in the middle tenon @ 12:00?

Looks like a door to me!

Made my first bread board serving board today. Not as pretty or as accurate as yours, but definately happy with the result. Thanks for the inspiration today mate

Good job

Nice vid as a novice hand carver I've been stumped on something I think you could do well atm I'm making a skull from white oak but it's now grub/worm wood so therefore shall we compare results? I'd love to see howd you would do?

Does the spring board shape (slight bow) eliminate the need to do draw-boring of the pegs?

I had a guy argue with me about leaving breadboards proud 3/16 of an inch for swelling. He says wood will always contract more than it expands. Can you elaborate on this. I agree with you btw

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I love when people use the sprung joint on a bread board end. That way I Don't need to recommend it. :D

so rather than traditional draw boring, you're using the clamps to draw the bread board on, then drill your holes!?! Looks like it to me. Hell of a trick! Beautiful work dude!

New subscriber here Andy, beautiful work!! Do you ha e a video on tenant you used to achieve the exact finish on that table and bench set? Thanks, Adam

When you blew the sawdust off at the camera, I blinked!

If you screw a board on the end of the table you can use your router to cut the tongue, just screw we’re the cut out are. Faster and clearer

Andy, Thank you for the video. I noticed that you have a Sawstop Table saw with the sliding table extension. Have you done any videos with that in use? I am trying to get back into woodworking and I have been looking at the Sawstop and other than demos of the Sawstop there are limited videos on the sliding tables usage. Thanks for any reply

So when I think of breadboard ends I think of the holes being offset from each other so when the peg is hammered home it pulls the morticed piece into the tenon locking it in.

I am also a carpenter, but your work is perfect. Subscribe.

Andy, do you find drawboring to be unnecessary if you clamp the heck out of it when you drill holes in the tenons?

I wanted to do this on a table I have started. But not sure if I can do it with a 24” wide bread board end.

Have you tried waxing the chisel part of the mortiser as well? I know it helps me when using hand planes.

Are all the pins actually required or is it just for looks? The end of the bread boards are forced into such a tight joint by the slight concave curve planed into the joint. Wouldn't only the center pins really be required? If it's just and esthetic choice I can see that since it does look great.

Am I the only one that looks in the background to see what kind of stuff ends up piling up in all the corners of other people's shops? I do, makes me feel not so alone :P

Breadboard board stretcher.

What is your glue method for bread board? It looked like u glue the sides different. Thanks

Thanks for the instruction! A question if I may, on the 3/16 you left the breadboards hang over, does that number change dependent on the overall table width?

Awesome video. So If I want to make a cutting board with breadboard ends its the same thing just smaller right?

Those Office watch through numbers are weak bro...pump up those numbers! Best show ever, agreed.

I bet you could do that whole job with a router. You'd just have to add a larger base to the router that you could hold down on the tabletop.

So will those broad board ends (that stick out on the side) eventually become flush?

How thin a material can you reliably use for this?

I'm assuming that you don't need to draw bore those tenons because you used a spring joint?

Andy - how much wood movement do you see? I am going to be making a kitchen table eventually, but I’d like less than 3/16th” on the breadboard. I’m in California (near the coast but in the foothills), and it’s pretty dry/hot here. I was thinking a 1/16th might be enough. My current (purchased) table has a fake breadboard (lines routed in to mimic the design) and the “pegs” are in the table not the breadboard as if the breadboard was the tenon and the table had the mortise. Not impossible I suppose, but would make for a more complicated build I would think if it was real.

What the heck is that stainless double-tee marking gauge??

I have a couple of questions. First, I noticed you did not use the draw boarding technique. Was this because it somehow wasn't appropriate for this build or is it more of you don't find it necessary? Second question is I noticed in the added video of the finished product that you left the bread board ends proud on the side. Why is that? Beautiful build and I am subscribed. Thanks Andy!!

What do you use to finish? Beautiful work.

Wouldn't you draw bore those dowels?

How did you trim the ends to size? Router?