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1. To avoid board twisting, always plane the two sides the same day, if possible; otherwise the humidity will leave the board on the freshly planed side more than from the other side.
Skim a layer from the underside. Then wait a week and see what happens before trying to correct the remaining twist.
If you make a new bench-top, don’t try to directly flatten the top while leaving the underside untouched. Remove first a layer on each side, wait at least a week before the final flattening.
This is a question of taste, but the workbench would perfectly be usable with the rounded edges still partly visible. I would have waited a year before eliminating them completely.
2. The underside of my bench-top was apparently not perfectly out of wind (the two areas were it sits on the two leg-frames) and the workbench was rocking.
– I have unscrewed the top from one leg-frame;
– put a shim between the top and the leg-frame where appropriate;
– screwed again the top to the said leg-frame.
The workbench doesn’t rock anymore.
No need to re-cut a leg. It could also be a solution for an uneven floor.
A shim between the leg and the floor would probably not stay in place.