Hochberg-style coffee table

[Pappy]

I wasn't familiar with the style. The 'floating' top makes for an interesting look. The Walnut/Cherry combination is fantastic, epecially evident in the top. As the Cherry ages it can only get more beautiful!

[themachine]

The breadboard was done with traditional methods. After the top was glued up and trimmed to size, I ran a router across each end, both sides creating a tenon on the end about .25 inches in thickness and maybe .375 inches wide. I trimmed off the ends of each tenon so the tenon stopped about an inch before each side of the top. Then I put a .25 inch spiral bit in a router and routed a groove (mortise) in each breadboard end piece. I dry fit the ends onto the tenons and while clamped, drilled a .25 dia hole all the way through the breadboard ends so that the hole intersected the tenon about midway. One hole in the center and one towards each end for a total of three dowel holes per breadboard. Then I removed the breadboard end and came back to all of the end holes in the tenon and elongated them perpendicular to the grain in the top (basically in the direction of the top width) with a plunge router with the .25 inch bit, being careful not to make the hole bigger in the table length direction. This allows the two end dowels to move in the tenon, so when the top expands and contracts across its width, it can move relative to the breadboard.

[Bruce Cohen]

Many thanks for the explanation, now I know how it's done. Thanks for the rapid answer and thanks for showing us a wonderful piece of work.

Bruce