Time to glue up!

I applied glue to the plywood spline and the mortises and clamped them up. You can see that I didn't have pipe long enough for my pipe clamps. Fortunately, I did have 6 clamps. This is what I like to call "creative problem solving". You can use that on a resume, I did.

Lost pics... top glued up

Unfortunately, I lost the pictures for the glue-up process. But here it is anyway.

1. Milled the lumber to 3/4" x 3" x 66".
   
2. Drilled 3, 1/2" holes in each board. 2" from each end then in the middle.
3. I only glued up 4 boards at a time using the all-thread as a makeshift clamp and some Erwin quick clamps.
4. The last group of boards I glued up 3 of the boards and then routed the dog holes on the other two. More on this later.
5. I put all the sections together using the all-thread bars and pipe clamps.