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More than just a pretty edge, a breadboard hides end grain without blowing apart your solid-wood tabletop.

Concealing a tabletop's end grain using breadboard ends can be tricky. We show you how to make it work.

Recently, I built an oak dining room table and wanted to use breadboard ends to conceal the tabletop's end grain.

Enhance the look and stability of solid-wood tabletops, lids, and doors.

Check out these eight solutions, from basic to beautiful for butt joints.

Use calipers to scribe an exact size circle centered on the end of a cylinder on the lathe.

When staining wood, making end grain match the faces of a board can be tricky, especially in porous woods such as oak.

This simple drilling guide ensures straight and centered holes on the end of the dowel. 

When a project requires multiple spindles or other pieces with beveled ends, it becomes quickly apparent if the bevels aren’t uniform.

As a beginning turner, I find this gives me extra safety and peace of mind.

I've used a holesaw many times in the past to cut out wheels for toys.

Not all of us have a lot of room in our shops to put in a big rack for pipe clamps.

I've seen a lot of tricks for drilling centered holes into dowel ends, but I've never seen one that would allow me to bore a 1⁄8" hole into a 3⁄16"-diameter dowel without blowing out the side. Here is the method I came up with that gives me that ability.

Not all of us have a lot of room in our shops to put in a big rack for pipe clamps. But there are other ways to store them.

I've used a holesaw many times in the past to cut out wheels for toys.

Paring down end grain with a hand plane can be jarring both to your hand and to the tool.