Travel Tool Chest & Workbench Build Process

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Four boards all glued together and planed:

The next job is to make them into rectangles. I'm still pondering how I'm going to do that at the moment. The temptation is to get the track saw out as that would be quick, very easy and very accurate. The width of the boards is right on the limit of what I can hold on the shooting board, so the more hand-tool but accurate way to do it would be to hand saw it roughly to the line and then shoot it square. I've got a much, much longer shooting board that runs along the bench, but I've never got on with it really and I'm not convinced it'll produce an accurate 90° for me.

Given that the ends are going to planed post dovetailing, the other option would be just to saw them accurately by hand and deal with the saw marks after dovetailing, but the stumbling block there is the whole "saw accurately by hand" thing.

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