I got some time out in the shop this evening after spending the better part of the day feeling low, and just kind of hanging out, and doing my laundry. I fooled around with that joint on the poplar top for the kitchen island. I got it close enough and realizing that it did not have to be perfect, I went ahead and glued it up.
The added piece is the one closest to the camera POV. I had to clamp it down to the workbench first, with a piece under the end to support it while pushing against a bend in the board. Then I put glue on the part that was already done, and put that against the new board, clamping it in the vise on one end, and using bar clamps on the other, where it was already clamped to the worktop. I think the glue is set by now, but I will let it cure a spell before I try to remove it from the worktop. I suspect I have glued it down inadvertently. Hopefully the boiled linseed oil on the bench will help out with that. All goes to plan, I need about 19 inches more glued together with these, then I need to plane it, which will be scrub on the bottom and a finish plane on the top. Finally, I will relieve the edges and get some help carrying it into the kitchen, I suspect.
Anyway, the previous boards are still holding together, and I have some more to put on, which should help bear the stress of holding the one I just put on it straight. With any luck, it will conform with the others as a matter of course while absorbing humidity. Just so long as it holds, anyway. I need to joint all the edges still, so this is a glue up in progress. I am really preparing it as I go. It is kind of crazy.
I have more of the two and a half inch thick boards to finish this with. They all have been drying over last summer and winter, at least. I am getting very eager to get them out of the workshop as much as anything. Once they are out, the shop will be safer and it will have more room to move around. Then I will get to work on one of the two cabinets I plan to make. One will be a bedside cabinet for my stead. I would do a night table, but I cannot see wasting the space under when it could hold books or whatnot, and it could do with a drawer, too. I also plan on making a bread cabinet based off the idea of a pie safe. But that is for the kitchen and will only hopefully be accepted and put to use in there. I would like to see the bread area cleaned up and things looking a bit neater in there.
Well, it all is a s it all does. Meanwhile, there are markets coming up, and we have some preparations to do for those.