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1. 
   papanick | Sep 06, 2005 08:54pm | #1

   please tell me that is a typo.

   32' or 32" ?

   I made a 36' boardroom table once...... Oy vay, you don't want to know about it.

   The older I get, the better I was....

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   geomax45 | Sep 06, 2005 10:44pm | #2

   I'm in the final stages of a 42" wide table with breadboard ends. I used a router, straightedge and a spiral bit. Nothing to it.

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   CharlieStanford | Sep 07, 2005 12:15am | #3

   Rebate plane.

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   DonStephan | Sep 07, 2005 03:01am | #4

   A couple years ago I followed an article by I think Garrett Hack in FWW on breadboard ends. Took some time, but the result was much better than my previous attempts.

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   WillGeorge | Sep 07, 2005 03:10am | #5

   I would use sliding dovetails and a peg at the center (no glue).... But then again I like the look and makin' the slidin' dovetails...

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   philip | Sep 07, 2005 01:29pm | #6

   Router with huge rebate cutter-if this still can't give you the tenon length you want then Router with fat straight bit and straight edge guide. But definitely the Router unless you want to plane it with your Stanley#110....

   Philip Marcou
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   Jamie_Buxton | Sep 07, 2005 06:03pm | #7

   If you're using the router method, first check the thickness of the glued-up top all along the length of the tenon.  You may find that the top is not the same thickness everyplace.  Set the router depth at the thickest part of the top.  Use the shoulder plane to reduce the tenon thickness elsewhere.