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The underside of my bench-top was (very) slightly twisted. I used a shim somewhere between the bench-top and one of the leg-frame to get the four feet on the ground. Otherwise the rigidity of the bench-top would “telegraph” to the feet when screwing the bench-top to the bearers of the leg-frames.
Now if you have a gap at the two leg-frames, and you don’t want to use shims, instead of correcting the underside of the bench-top, it might be easier to plane
either the bearers on the leg-frame
or the legs
to get an angle on the leg-frames which is the same as the internal angle between the bench-top and the apron.
I didn’t thought about this when I decided to use a shim.
Note also that not all the underside of the bench-top needs to be flat/out of twist/perpendicular to the apron but only where it will sit on the leg-frames.
All this assuming that the leg-frames were square to begin with.