How to Make Breadboard Ends {Part 15 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}

HOW TO MAKE BREADBOARD ENDS

By Joshua Farnsworth & Will Myers

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I know, I know. I’ve taken a very long break from this desk, and my sons remind me of it often. After all, it was supposed to be a Christmas gift for them…two years ago. Anyway, in this part of the traditional dovetail desk build video, you’ll learn how to make mortise & tenon breadboard ends to help stabilize the top of this desk and table tops in general.

This week I was planning to film myself doing the breadboard ends for this desk, but then I remembered that I had already filmed Will Myers making them for our upcoming DVD on building a collapsible trestle table.

And since filming one’s self building & teaching is rather difficult, I figured I’d just give everyone a free gift with this valuable tutorial by master craftsman, Will Myers. (Click here to be added to the list to be notified when this DVD is released). In the next video we’ll continue this amazing tutorial by Will. Subscribe here to be notified when it’s released.

Even though I have a helpful hand tool buying guide (here), I’m still often asked for a list of and links to the tools that I use in my videos, so here is a list of tools that I used in this series of videos on desk building (I also included tools that I used in steps that weren’t covered in the videos):

SPECIALTY:

• 1/4″ or 1/8″ Drift Punch (I use it for drawboring sometimes)

WORKBENCH:

• Sjoberg Elite 2500 Beech Workbench (with optional tool cabinet)
• Moravian Workbench (portable and sturdy)
• Gramercy Holdfast

HAND PLANES:

• Lie-Nielsen Low Angle Rabbet Block Plane
• Lie-Nielsen No. 62 Low Angle Jack Plane
• Vintage Stanley No. 71 Router Plane
• Lie-Nielsen No. 73 Large Shoulder Plane
• Vintage Stanley No. 4-1/2 Smoothing Plane
• Vintage Beading Plane
• Vintage Wooden screw arm Plow plane

SAWS:

• Lie-Nielsen dovetail saw
• Lie-Nielsen’s thin plate 16″ Tenon Rip Saw
• Lie-Nielsen cross cut back saw
• Vintage Millers Falls Miter box and miter saw
• Robert Larson Coping Saw

CHISELS:

•  Vintage Stanley 750 bevel-edge chisels
• Vintage English Pig Sticker Mortise Chisel

MARKING & MEASURING:

• Starrett 6-inch combination square
• Vintage metal try square
• Vintage sliding bevel square
• Vintage Starrett Dividers / Compasses
• Veritas Wheel Marking Gauge or Veritas Dual Wheel Marking Gauge
• Lie-Nielsen panel gauge
• Wooden Straight Edge
• Vintage Stanley No. 62 Folding Rules (24″)
• Marking knife (chip carving knife)
• Staedtler Mars 780 Technical Mechanical Pencil

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1. Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools – Part 1: Dovetail Carcass
2. Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools – Part 2: Legs
3. How to Chop Mortises {Part 3 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
4. How to Clean Mortises {Part 4 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
5. How to Layout Tenons {Part 5 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
6. How to Cut Tenon Shoulders {Part 6 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
7. How to Cut Tenon Cheeks {Part 7 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
8. How to Square Tenon Cheeks {Part 8 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
9. How to Fit a Mortise & Tenon {Part 9 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
10. How to Drawbore Mortise and Tenon Joints {Part 10 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
11. How to Make Pegs for Drawboring Mortise & Tenon {Part 11 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
12. How to Make a Through Mortise & Tenon {Part 12 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
13. How to Attach a Desk Top {Part 13 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
14. How to Use Traditional Cut Nails {Part 14 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
15. How to Make Breadboard Ends {Part 15 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
16. How to Make Breadboard Ends {Part 16 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
17. The Completed Dovetail Desk! {Part 17 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}