Farmhouse Table... how to build them correctly.
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- čas přidán 26. 01. 2017
- Prevent cracking and warping on your DIY farmhouse table by letting the wood move with changes in the environment. Many people are screwing the breadboard ends onto the main center piece of the table. This causes a bind as the wood tries to expand and contract with the changes is weather. This video shows you how to do it correctly so the wood can freely move and avoid any cracking or damage. I also show you what happened to one of my first tables that I build incorrectly with the screws.
Please comment or share this video if you know of someone trying to build or buy one of these tables!
Forgive my bad video taping and editing. This is my first CZcams video and I'm just now learning about video editing and posting on CZcams. It's much harder than I thought! - Jak na to + styl
Thank you for being informational without being condescending to those who are still in the learning process.
Man, I'm still learning too. I don't think this is a skill that you ever stop learning new tricks and techniques.
Lmao
I love all the poor man woodworking tips you show because I do the same things. They still work great and you don’t need a bunch of expensive tools.
you did a very good job of explaining this process thankyou very much for posting
+Bryon Lynn thank you. I appreciate the kind comment. I hope it was helpful.
Thank you for the info.
Wow! I wish Id known this method when build my farm house table. But now I know. Thank you! 👍👍👍
Thank you! By far, mistakes are the best learning tool. I often tell people I can fix most anything because I've learned from my many mistakes. Great video!
Thank you sir. I appreciate the comment!
Great info! Thank you for sharing your mistakes so others can benefit. Very helpful.
+Aaron Cooke Glad you like it. I Hope to have more in the near future.
You have answered a longstanding question I've always had about differential movement - and your solution is what good solutions should be: simple.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
I'm glad you found it interesting!
Great video! I've noticed that same problem with others posting videos that show the incorrect methods for doing not only breadboard ends, but many other things. I'm now retired, and probably watch too many CZcams videos, but I enjoy the new ideas presented by others. My background includes cabinet making, furniture making, teaching industrial arts in high school, and 35 years in manufacturing management, and industrial safety. I've seen a lot of different ways to accomplish the same a job, but usually there's not too many "correct" ways to get the job done. Your video was excellent for a first attempt. I enjoyed your great explainations for how AND why to do this job!
Great video, super helpful. Love that you show the different possibilities of how to do the job!
Ditto; very understandable explanation of expansion/contraction. I am confident in this humid area of the country that I can create an heirloom quality cutting board. My passion is seasoning the board originally, so knowing I won't be dealing with split wood is comforting.
This was some of the best woodworking advice I have found. Many thanks.
THANK YOU! I'm going to start my build later today. I only stumbled upon your video and this will prevent me from making the same mistake my friend made which is exactly what he did with the pocket screws and his table is cracking. Thank you for the video, extremely helpful, so glad I bought my biscuit jointer the other day.
I’m glad you did this.I’ve watched people build tables knowing what is going to happen and been told “I bought my lumber at lowes it’s dry.Put it in a house with heat in winter and a/c in summer and it will really get dry.My own rule of thumb is don’t cross the top.
Happy I watched you, watched many on farmhouse tables, all did the way you did on your 1st table... thank you for taking the time showing how it should be done... 👍🏻👌
Hope it helps!
Thanks, was about to start a farm table with 83 year old barn wood. I am blessed to have seen your video. Hope your doing all right.
Incredibly helpful. Thanks for taking the time to put all this together.
I like the homemade mortising jig. Beats spending $110.00 for one online. Nice job and thanks for helping us all.
i made a table the wrong way last winter for a friend and suffered the consequences of my ignorance. This is a great video. I already knew what i did wrong but still a very informative video and you are 100 percent correct Robert. Don`t worry about your cinemetography. We are wood workers, not movie directors. Your camera work is good.
+Glenn Ryzebol Well, it's all filmed from my cell phone. When i watch some oof these other guys videos, it looks like Hollywood quality editing. I'm a little jealous! Lol
It looked fine. Don't be
Thank you very much sir, for making this video. I am going to build one of these for my wife as a surprise, and I had seen some videos that used kreg screw joinery on the breadboard ends. Being a novice, that was my plan as well, even though some of the videos had mentioned they'd do it differently if they had it to do over. My wife thanks you for a table has a slightly smaller chance of cracking!
Hats off to you sir... Those 22:57 minutes were well spent... Honest approach is the best approach... Thanks...Keep up the good work...
Thank you sir!
Thanks for sharing your hard earned knowledge. Your video bridges the gap between cute DIY projects that don't seem to last long and the professional woodwork which is not realistic for beginners - like myself. Congrats!
Good stuff. Am about to make a long farmhouse table with breadboard ends and this helped avoid a problem I didn't know about. Thank you.
I appreciate u taking the time to show us this..
Thanks for watching!
This is very informative, you did a great job. Thank you for sharing so that others won't have the same problems.
+cindy wallis Thank you! I Hope it helps.
what a great tutorial and easily understandable. Thanks so much!
I have known about tables splitting for years, but your table is the first I have seen.THANKS!!
There is a guy who made a screw pocket bread board end farm house table, he glued the bread board to the end grain of the table held in place with pocket screws. Then said,his wife saw one just like it for $1000.00, bet the one for sale had a floating bread board!
I think some parts of the country can get away with it because they don't have wild humidity swings. Here in Houston, you can buy a board and almost watch it shrink over night. Geography has a lot to do with it.
This is an excellent video!! You explained slow and meticulously.......especially which holes get enlarged and what gets glued and what doesn't! Well done......DD
Thanks for the video. I was going to use pocket hole screws. You just saved me a lot of trouble. Great video.
I'm in the process of building my first farm table and thanks for the video..very helpful
+MrMlozano79 I'm glad you found it helpful.
Learned a lot from watching this, thank you for taking the time to explain things so clearly.
Glad it was helpful! If it helps someone out there, it's worth doing.
Fabulous! None of the other videos I've watched show this. Yes, wood is a tree. They move! :) Thank you.
Thank you for this information and presenting it so clearly. Excellent video!
Thank you for watching!
Holy smokes I wish I had watched your video before I tried to make my farmhouse table. This was incredibly informative, thank you. I will follow your advice for my second try.
That's a very well explained video - I don't think most people care about editing and what-not when the information is so clear useful. Thanks.
Thank you for your very kind comment.
Extremely helpful, thanks for taking the time to make this!
You're very welcome!
Great video, I myself am just starting and this will save me a lot of trouble down the road!!!
I hope it helps!
Thank you for taking the time to make this. I've had many failures in woodworking and the breadboards were one of them. I try to justify a Domino everyday and you just gave me one more reason. Keep up the good work!
+Rick Patterson I love the domino machine. Lots of other woodworkers seem to have a problem with it. "It not real wood work. " Maybe it isn't. But it sure is fast. I think the best thing is to learn both methods. I'm still working on improving my skills. I wish I were Sam Maloof, but I'm not. I do what I can within my skill set.
Great video!! Good info on cross grain wood movement. Best part.....no annoying music!!!! Thanks.
This was excellent! I'm building a table and had no idea about everything you covered -again, excellent!
+Tony Gondek thank you! Glad it helps!
Good explanation, thank you for your efforts much appreciated!
Thanks!
Good job man! I learned a lot. I'm just a beginner and you gave me some really good pointers.
Glad it helped!
Great info. I plan to make one out of white oak. Will use your method for the ends. Thanks!
Fernando, thank you so much for taking the time to explain as clear as you did. I want to build this style of dining table and I want to learn as much as I can before I attempt to build one. I truly appreciate the time and effort you put into this.Happy New Year to you and your family!
+Fred Restrepo build your table and send me a picture! You can do it! Thanks for the nice comment and I hope you have a happy New Year as well!
Great video! I want to build a table like this because I need it to be 36" wide to fit my dining space. Can't afford new. I was just going to screw all the boards together. Glad I saw this video first.
+grandmav2014 just don't do the breadboard ends and you'll be fine.
Very helpful video. I appreciated your approach to the process.
Thank you for sharing ideas 😊
Excellent tutorial! I appreciate the detailed explanations.
+john cooper Thank you for watching. Hope it helps!
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us.
+Michael Sullivan Thank you sir!
You got the pocket screw right on the head. I just mentioned this issue in the comments section of a “farmhouse table diy” video and tips on how to do it correctly.... and immediately came under fire for being a hater etc etc. then luckily some folks chimed in saying they followed the video and their tables ripped themselves apart in the spring! Lol. Never enough time to do it right but plenty of time and money to do it twoce
Great tip...thanks for sharing!
+Dan Stephens awesome! Hope you found it helpful!
You did great. I also like the cargo straps idea.
Nice video. Thank you for sharing your mistakes and how to overcome them. I already glued one breadboard end, I hope it doesn't break. Next one I will use this technique.
+Tomas Muchenik Thank you! I Hope this helps.
Great job, I didn't know it was your first video until the end. The more you do it, the better you will, just like in your woodworking!! Awesome job on both fronts!! Thanks!
Great video, well done and thank you!
+Paul Evans Thank you for the positive feedback. Makes me want to make more videos.
For a first video you did very well Mr. Termite. Keep up the good work. Content is King. And you filled this video with content.
Thanks for the great tips explained in a very informative way.
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome video! I was really confused as to how to add the ends on. You have a subscriber!! Ty!
Thank you Randy!
Great first video, I learned something new. Thanks!
Glad it helped!
good job and you conveyed all the important points very well, thanks for sharing
Thank you... i appreciate the comment.
Very helpful, nice job.Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Great video, great information, well done, thanks
Thank You! I loved your tips!
Thanks for watching!
WOW, this is a fantastic vid loaded with good tips!! Would love to see more from you. I intend doing a table in same way as yours. I would love to share it with you once I am done. Thanx a mil from South Africa...
Thank you for explaining this. Pocket screws have their place in the shop, but not on a table top, IMO. @18:23 I've even seen some people drill the hole in the tenon purposefully offset from the breadboard hole so that the dowel pulls the breadboard towards the table boards more tightly.
Thanks this is a great video. If I could add one point to maybe help a little. When choosing lumber at the lumber yard, I look for vertical grain on the ends of the planks. Wood expands and contracts most along the grain. The result of having more vertical grain is less movement across the width of the table top. The table top will get a little thicker and thinner with seasonal changes but it is only over 1 1/2" and will be unnoticeable. Vertical grain would be "quarter sawn" planks. Horizontal grain would be "flat sawn" planks. Hope this helps when choosing lumber. One last point, flat sawn planks are more prone to cupping than quarter sawn.
Dude, you did great! Thanks tons for sharing your knowledge. I was looking at building a table with the potential to split. Keep up the great work.
Thank you!
Nice job. I am just getting started too and here in Florida we have nothing but humidity. So I have been trying to learn about wood movement. This was very helpful.
Glad it helped.
Good job. Lots of food for thought.
Thanks for posting, terrific 1st video. I will be purchasing my first plundge router soon and a similar project will be in the works.
Best of luck! You will feel great about it!
Your video was just fine. You did a good job. Looking forward to see more.
Great video and very useful as I'm about to start on making a table. Now I know the best way to do it. For a first video it is very good. Cheers
awesome video. thanks for sharing.
When I did it, I didn't know about Kreg jig, and I couldn't afford any of the fancy tools mentioned in the video, so in order to make tension joints, I drilled 3 holes to the same depth, then chiseled them out to make mortises. My project used only 3 powered tools because I only had 3 powered tools, a miter saw, a circular saw, and a powered drills.
You did great! I want to build a farmhouse table now!
You can do it!
Very nice video. Thank you for sharing. Excellent info that I was not aware of.
Glad it helped!
Great job sir! Thanks!
Great job. Would love to build my own table. Thank you for sharing.
+Richard Palk As Nike would say... "Just do it! "
Great job, thanks for the info. Hope to see more from you.
+James Simmers thank you! Working on some more stuff. My real job gets in the way. Lol
Great video. Very informative!
Thank you!
I learned alot. Thanks!
+Byron Scheider glad it helped!
Great job! Thanks, man.
Thank you!
Well done. Great job sharing a critical aspect of building a table top. Wouldn't have known it was your first video.
I appreciate the kind comments. Just trying to share some information so other people don't experience my pain. I want to do more videos, but I quickly learned that making a video is far harder than it looks. I'm a terrible camera and editing guy. Guess I'll get better with practice.
Very informative! Love the video, just starting the same hobby. Subscribed to your channel, definitely making you one my go to guys!
Oh wow! Thanks for that awesome comment. I hope I can share some good information with you. I'm sure you're going to enjoy your new hobby for years to come.
You did great. Thanks for the info
Thank you. I appreciate it.
You did a great job in explaing and showing on your video. Your also down to earth and make new woodworkers feel good about their skills. I have subscribed and wait for more videos
Wow... i appreciate the comment!
Great video you did job and great tip !!
Great idea. Thank you.
thank you for very much for the explanation
Thank you for an excellent video. As for your video, it was better than my first one! LOL.
Thank you. I'm still learning. I don't know much about photography. Whole new world.
great video! i'm glad i discovered this channel
Thank you so much!
Awesome video
Thank You for this video.
+Khris Blair You're welcome! Hope it helps.
You did good man
Thanks for the tips
+Gevorg Nazaryan Glad I could help!
Thanks for the great tip. Would be nice to see how you do it start to finish. Keep up the great work.
+Marshall Bueckert I might just do that.
That demo is just what I needed ,I’m new at this &haven’t built anything yet ? Keep up the easy to understand videos 👍 &simple.🇺🇸🎃
+Robert Patrene glad it helped. Just do it man.... build something!
Thanks for the insight, very helpful
Thank you for watching.
hi, just starting with wood working as well, so there are mistakes a plenty here. thank you for sharing. oh and good luck with the youtube thing.
Thank you. I think it doesn't matter how long you've been doing this. You'll always make mistakes. It's a never ending learning experience.
I build cabinets for work and want a domino for faceframe work. Seeing your video makes me want to build some tables for side work. With the domino it would make fast work of the rails and legs also. Great first video by the way.
The domino is a great efficient machine. I've built cabinet face frames with it and it's super fast and accurate. You'll love it if you get one, but just don't tell anyone. People seem to have an angry reaction when you use festool.
This is a real good video. I got lots of information with all you shared. I have all things festool on my wishlist.
Don't we all! Love their stuff, it's just so expensive. I am glad you enjoyed the video.
Great video nice first try. Thanks for the info.
Thank you. Hope the info helps. I'm trying to make improvements for my next video.