After the top returned from the wide drum sander at the cabinet shop, it was time to slice it up again.
A few of the strips broke, highlighting where I probably didn't get enough glue during the first glue-up. Re-glue and clamp:
From there it was just flipping every other section end for end and gluing up. This time around, I only did a couple sections at a time until complete. Back to the cabinet shop for a wide belt sanding and the top was complete.
That's when I noticed I hadn't flipped the last section... DOH! I couldn't live with it that way, so I sliced that section back off, glued it back on the correct way, and went back to the cabinet shop one last time.
From there, it was straight forward: round over the top and treat with mineral oil, a basic cabinet made of solid eastern maple and maple ply made with mortise and tenon joinery, a poly finish on the cabinet, mineral oil on the top, and some smooth-moving locking casters that don't look quite right. I am on the lookout for some less-conspicuous casters, but other than that, this project turned out well and got approval from the boss.
