Planing the benchtop underside

Today’s effort was to plane down the underside face of the benchtop. The plane continued to perform admirably, and even thought the underside was considerably more rugged than the topside, I was able to complete the surface in one session.

The objective of planing down the underside is mainly to get a smooth flat surface in the areas where the underside will register against the leg frame bearers, and to make sure that those areas are not twisted relative to each other. Checking with my winding sticks, I’m fairly confident that there is no significant twist.

The next task will be to trim up the end and cut the benchtop to length.