Leo's desk pt XIII........

fixing the slotsI let all of the slot fillers cook over night before sawing them off. Flushed them with a blockplane next. The new slots are a frog hair above the first one. I went a little nutso doing slots on the drawer rail to help with the bow in it.back railThe back rail and the drawer rail I could do with the plunge router.new slotsDid the first ones on the wrong side of the layout line. I put super glue in the filler just in case. hand choppedOn the sides I could use the plunge router to do the center slot. I had to chop the two outside ones by hand. Practice makes perfect, these 4 are almost as clean as the routed ones.prepping the topSanding the end grain wasn't working. It was smoothing it but the scratches from the saw were still visible. I used a card scraper to remove them and smooth down the end grain ends. I still sanded them after that up to 220.wooden #4Used this to smooth the two long grain edges. I have never really warmed up to this plane or any other wooden bench…