HOW TO MAKE BREADBOARD ENDS (CONTINUED)
By Joshua Farnsworth & Will Myers
This video of Will Myers is the second half of the breadboard table end tutorial (which is also part 16 of my desk building series).
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Remember that this free tutorial is part of an amazing upcoming DVD where Will shows how to build a collapsible dining trestle table with hand tools (Click here to be added to the list to be notified when this DVD is released).
Click here to go back to part 1, if you want to follow me as I build a historic hinged-top desk. Below you’ll find photos and the list of tools that I used to build this desk. Subscribe here to be notified when my future videos & articles are released.
WOODWORKING HAND TOOLS THAT I USED:
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:
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:
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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- Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools – Part 1: Dovetail Carcass
- Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools – Part 2: Legs
- How to Chop Mortises {Part 3 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
- How to Clean Mortises {Part 4 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
- How to Layout Tenons {Part 5 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
- How to Cut Tenon Shoulders {Part 6 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
- How to Cut Tenon Cheeks {Part 7 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
- How to Square Tenon Cheeks {Part 8 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
- How to Fit a Mortise & Tenon {Part 9 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
- How to Drawbore Mortise and Tenon Joints {Part 10 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
- How to Make Pegs for Drawboring Mortise & Tenon {Part 11 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
- How to Make a Through Mortise & Tenon {Part 12 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
- How to Attach a Desk Top {Part 13 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
- How to Use Traditional Cut Nails {Part 14 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
- How to Make Breadboard Ends {Part 15 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
- How to Make Breadboard Ends {Part 16 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
- The Completed Dovetail Desk! {Part 17 of “Build a Dovetail Desk with Hand Tools”}
Great videos. Very informative and interesting.
Beautiful work Joshua.
Glad you’re enjoying this Tommy!
Gr eat video! I am a traditional woodworker using antique tool s to reproduce period furniture to try and capture the butt of the furniture built by our forefathers. I now have about four years. Experience but find it difficult finding the tricks that the old cabinet makers used as they built their classic furniture.
This is probably the best “how and why” video that I have seen on making breadboard ends. There isn’t any requirement to make everything +/- .001 just eyeballing will make it happen.
Yes, Will Myers is great at simplifying things!
hi is the youtube channel dead ?
Someone hacked my YouTube account, but I’m back up now.
Excellent Video, I’m starting a dining room table in the next few months and have felt daunted yet determined to do breadboard ends, this is certainly helpful and giving me a teeny bit more confidence! Also, I think I’m doing this right for the clamp giveaway… If I win something but not that I’d love the shaker candle stand video, the Dovetail saw in dusk blue (L) t-shirt, or the bedrock hand plane mug in any color. Hope this giveaway… Read more »