My wife has decided that I am to build a new dining room table similar to this one below. How do I go about attaching the breadboard end to allow for seasonal expansion and contraction?
A local reclaimed lumber yard has some 140 yr old 3x12 Doug Fir that I plan on using for the top, and some 3x5 that will be the legs, etc.
I was thinking about cutting a tenon across the end of the top, and then making the mortise in the breadboard end a couple of 1/16ths wider to allow for movement? Would this be sufficient, or do I need to do something different given the size of the material?
Thanks.