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

Beth spreads  glue over the edge. She will glue-up both the top and bottom at this point. She is making each panel about 1" longer so that she can cut to size after.
	With the panels glued up, she has put the chest back on the worktable and is starting to scrape off the glue squeeze-outs. She will be staining the pine, so she did not want to use a wet cloth to remove the glue.
Yes, she is purposely going across the grain here. She is removing the "proud" tails and pins. Once they are level, she will switch to using the belt sander on the whole side and with the grain. If there is a fault in this picture, it is Beth looking like she is enjoying this.
	Having finished with the belt sander, I have Beth switch to the Festool Rotex RO 150 random orbital sander. This is her first time with this, and I start her out with 80 grit paper. Note that the sander not only works dust free but it has cut a swath in the cut left from the belt sander. Beth uses this sander changing grits to 180 on all sides.    The task took a good 30 minutes of work but the chest is now ready for staining.
Not quite ready to stain.  The base could have been simply left square, but we thought that a scroll curve bottom would look good. She is freehanding a shape.
	Having figured the dimension of the shape on the chest, she now sketches it on a piece of 1/4" plywood that will be a template.
She uses the saber saw to cut just off the line.
	I have installed a sanding drum in the drill press for Beth to use to sand the curves to the line.
She inspects her work and makes sure that the curve is smooth and what she wants.
	She uses the template to draw a cut line on the bottom of the chest side.    Next time, we will pick up from here. The chest is coming along just fine, but there are a number of things left to do.