Well, took the narrow end out of the clamps yesterday.....not good.  Upper and lower joints started to pull apart!   Reclamped those two, inside of the panel facing up. Flat on the bench.   Grabbed a handful of 5/8" brads.  Drove three into each, well all but one, joint.   Right through the tongue.   The un-pinned joint?    had to plane the filler strip flush, then I could pin that one too.

Let it set for most of the day....

 

Took it out again, flipped it over, and worked the outside joints flush, including the filler strip.   Handplanes and a sander.  Laid the narrow end on something out of my way..

Pretty, ain't?  Still a bit of a gap near the top.

Needed to take a few measurements, and trace a pattern or two.   "Plan" says I need a "False" front.    To make the door "look" like the rest of the box.   Needed to make a couple "feet" pieces, and a strip between them.  Scrollsaw wasn't too happy about cutting 7/8" thick White Oak, Had to sand some of the rougher parts.  Came out like this..

MEh?   Saw cuts are for a special joint I had in mind.  That oak strip is a 1x2 to go between these two feet thingys.  Cutting a joint was  a matter of eyeball vs a backsaw

H.Disston No.5   Needed to wax the blade almost every cut, blade was getting a might warm too.  Wound up with these two..

AFTER I had popped the waste out with a chisel or two.  Backsaw to size the 1x2....Backsaw does great as a ripsaw, not very good as a crosscut saw.   Somehow, got the 1x2 to match the feet

Pretty?  All I needed was for these to be close.  Another look?

A little more chisel work to fine tune it, and then a glue up.   Single brad into each joint when the joint got closed up with a clamp

But, something wasn't quite right....top was 12-15/16" across...across at the bottom of the feet?  13-3/16"!   Ok, we can fix that..

Added the second clamp.   Dumb end is clamped into the leg vise, didn't want this to slide away.   Had plenty of thread to crank with......ah, top and bottom now match each other.  A few well place taps with a hammer to get things to lie flat on the bench......and called it a night....Stay tuned, might start some real assembly later this week...maybe?

This is going to be one sturdy end table.

 

Lookin' Good!

Beefy!!