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Adjust Height and Add Breadboard Ends

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What happens here

Realizing the initial table height is too low, glue and nail additional 2x4 blocks to the bottom of the table legs to achieve the desired height. Prepare the breadboard ends by cutting a groove along their length and corresponding tenons on the tabletop. Use a Festool Domino joiner to create perfectly aligned slots for floating tenons (dominos) in both the tabletop and the breadboard ends. Glue the domino tenons into one side (e.g., the center of the breadboard end) but leave the outer dominos unglued to allow for wood expansion and contraction. Drill through-holes near the ends of the breadboard for dowels, passing through the tenons but only gluing the dowel to the breadboard end, again allowing for wood movement in the tabletop itself. This breadboard technique prevents the tabletop from warping or cracking over time.

Goal: Table height is adjusted with additional blocks, and breadboard ends are added to the tabletop using floating tenons (dominos) and through-dowels to accommodate wood movement.

Tools and materials

  • 2x4 Lumber

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with it that's our only option awesome idea screw this it's too tall it's too obnoxious how tall it is i'm glad i didn't get too carried away with here we're gonna get another two by four glue it on top of this sucker to make it girthy girthy we gotta use that at least once in an episode and then only use one of the two by fours to stick it out that way that's exactly what we're gonna do man let's do it okay so we have to talk breadboards right now i'm going to use a domino so this creates mortise and tenon joinery and what it's going to do is it's going to create a slot and these are the dominoes that they sell they're like little tenons so what we're gonna do is we're gonna have this side with nice tight domino sticking out glued in place but on this side the opposing side where it's gonna snap in it's gonna be very loose it can move almost like a quarter inch on each side this will keep it from bowing and flexing and turning and everything else if you glue this piece on and you use pocket holes it will crack on you it will move over i will drill two holes on each corner going through the tenon uh and putting a dowel through it that will keep it from being able to pop off the table and at the same time i allow it to have that natural very slow wood movement as seasons and climates and change and all that stuff

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