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In an effort to ‘help’ : also check your edge for straightness along the long side with a straight edge. If you’ve planed it with a small plane (no 4) it might still have some undulations (very wide highs and lows) wich may be square to your face locally but not on the long side. That may throw of the squaring all the way round too.
HTH
Diego
Let me start with thanking you guys for taking the time. Really cogent replies. I feel reassured now as this advice is spot on, I can use it to go back to the project and apply it. For some reason, I hadn’t incorporated what you guys have pointed out or made a part of my workflow as of yet. I guess up to now I had focused primarily on laminating, surface planing and flattening but paid scant attention to face mark/edge and referencing and squareness.
Greg, great explanation of how to correctly proceed. Thanks. I was not consistently going from pencil to knife wall. For some reason I skipped pencil and went directly to knife wall. Great advice on making sure pencil lines line up before forging ahead. i will do this. Also, I did not know about the deliberate cutting away from the wall slightly as the cut progresses. In the Youtube video, I thought it just happened. Didn’t know he did it deliberately so he could later plane down accurately and precisely to the cut line.
Dave, also, great, spot on advice, as usual. I really have to incorporate the face mark/reference mark system into my technique. Your description of how to proceed is really quite helpful. For some reason I had not made sure that the sides of the tops were proven/referenced to the flattened face of the top. But of course it is clearly necessary for the aprons to squarely attach to the legs and tops.
Diego, I will definitely focus like a laser on squareness of all sides as I see it is crucial to the overall build.
Thanks everyone!
Carlos