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@sskerhut – Sebastian, The 2x4s don’t need to be perfect. Just good enough to be able to pull them together. Many of my 2x4s that I used for the top were quite twisted even after a lot of planing. When I glued them up, I laid them out so that the most twisted boards were next to each other, then the less twisted and then the straightest boards on the outside. The twists were all going the same way, so the twisted boards were like “spoons” nesting together.
It still took all my strength to pull them together with clamps. There were a few small gaps that don’t seem to have affected anything.
Good luck.