I enjoy arts and crafts style furniture, I only consider true breadboard ends if they are mortise and tenon jointed on. When doing this you can design for the movement of the wood.
Also quartersawn white oak is most used, a wood that does not have as much expansion going on.
Quartersawn oak is one of the most used woods in A&C furniture. Quartersawing any wood is the best way to produce dimensionally stable stuff (I love that stuff is actually joinery jargon albeit somewhat archaic).
Also quartersawn white oak is most used, a wood that does not have as much expansion going on.
This is how I did it for my A&C style coffee table: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ejschmitt/9053576208/in/set-721...
Final shot of the coffee table: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ejschmitt/9115541399/in/set-721...