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I've begun to cut the biscuit slots for the top and bottom panels, and the 4 vertical supports. This was quite tricky. The wood is 5/8" thick (after planing from 3/4"), and the biscuit cutter cannot be lowered that much from a dead surface, leaving me to either deal with off-center biscuits, or rigging up some kind of very thin shims to lift the plate joiner off the keying surface on which both vertical supports, and joiner sit. Also, for the top and bottom panels, I had to mark everything off precisely, and then clamp flat bars to the wood. Then I would rest the joiner against those, and plunge straight down. It worked out well, but was a bit tense. I didn't want to ruin all of this work. The top and bottom panels are each made of 5 cut, planed, jointed, glued-up, recut, and sanded planks. That's a lot of work to redo.
IMG_5441
I've begun to cut the biscuit slots for the top and bottom panels, and the 4 vertical supports. This was quite tricky. The wood is 5/8" thick (after planing from 3/4"), and the biscuit cutter cannot be lowered that much from a dead surface, leaving me to either deal with off-center biscuits, or rigging up some kind of very thin shims to lift the plate joiner off the keying surface on which both vertical supports, and joiner sit. Also, for the top and bottom panels, I had to mark everything off precisely, and then clamp flat bars to the wood. Then I would rest the joiner against those, and plunge straight down. It worked out well, but was a bit tense. I didn't want to ruin all of this work. The top and bottom panels are each made of 5 cut, planed, jointed, glued-up, recut, and sanded planks. That's a lot of work to redo.