Cutting the rear apron leg recesses

I went back to the apron pieces that I laminated about a year ago, and spent some time working on them with the plane to get them flat(ish) and squared up for layout.

Then I cut out some wedges from 18mm stock.

My original plan had the wedges go from 45mm at the top to 30mm at the bottom, but I think that was based on starting from 18x45mm stock. I actually ended up with 18x90 stock, so I adjusted the wedges to go from 40mm to 25mm instead. This meant I was easily able to get two wedges side-by-side out of the stock, and also meant I have less work to do in cutting out the recesses.

Then I laid out the recesses, starting with the rear apron piece (in case I make mistakes), and got to chopping and routing them out.

Then I made a start on the second recess, this picture is with the walls chopped down almost to depth. After this, I split across the grain with a 1-inch chisel to remove the bulk of the internal waste, and then refine with the chisel and router.

Once I got the second recess cut, I did a test fit of the rear apron to both leg frames. Looking good!

What’s next

Chopping out the recesses in the front apron.