I want to avoid the human contact and expense of a trip to the yard for 8/4. The legs don't need to be particularly strong but I would like to hide the glue line as much as possible and get good contact.
The stock I have is 2 pieces of 3/4" x 6" x 60" walnut which I put in clamps last night to try. It occurred to me that it would be better to over-cut the stock to the approximate 30" final length first then glue to have the same number of clamps on a smaller area. Or even cut close to the final 2" x 30" to get the best contact and do 4 glue-ups.
Another issue is whether I need to hand plane the faces which are now just off the yard's planer? I'm just going to replace the threaded rods with the shelves let into dadoes in the legs.
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