Starting on the Crux

Glued the two halves together yesterday without much drama at all.  Center joint came out very nicely aligned so it won't be needing much work there to level it out.

But up to now, it's been a lot of grunt work of jointing and ripping and planing and drum sanding the pieces.  Now comes from the fun part.  Was over at John's place last night overlooking the city having a few of his craft made cocktails which was nice but my mind kept coming back to dovetails.  Dovetails.  And so for the next couple days this will be the fun part of the job.

The jumble of clamps that had just finished their task.

Marking out. 

It was decided (not by me) to have this even block look of spacing. Also trying out a tape method for visual ease.  Often times it's hard to see layout lines on dark wood.  And I'm not taking any chances of cutting the wrong portion.