Project - "Making a Blanket Chest using the New Jessem router table and the Akeda Dovetail Jig"

Beth spreads carpenter's glue over the joint and the biscuits. The biscuits help alignment of the two sections, but the strength of the joint will be largely dependent on how well the edges mate.
	You would think that I would put the camera down and help her. Nah!!! In fact, the section is light and Beth is just taking care to put it on without getting the glue over everything.
She had success aligning the biscuits and is now just easing the top section down.
	With the top section seated, Beth has rolled the whole assembly over so that she can add a couple of clamps. The seams on all four sides are perfect. The clamps only need light pressure to achieve some minor squeeze out.
She now places clamps along the opposite side.
	While the chest is drying, Beth starts cutting other pine boards to length for both the top and the bottom.
Beth is trying to determine where she can cut the top with no knots in the edges. There is a lot of board to select from.  It is much easier to do it now than after the boards are glued up.
	Before she cuts the biscuit slots, she uses the jig to take away a "hair" of the edges which will be joined. They are very close, but the jig makes it easy and quick going.
With the boards jointed, she makes marks for placement of the biscuits.
	She switches back to the slot cutter and makes her cuts.  While it would seem like extra work to switch back to the straight bit for jointing and then back again for the slot cutter, it takes a very little amount of time and energy to do this. Being able to crank the router up to change bits and then back to the cutting depth in just seconds makes the change "... a piece of cake."