Well now, making the top for the Shaker workbench is turning out to be a whole 'nother project on its own!

Cutting white ash boards, 18 in all, to rough size and milling to final thickness/width...

Making some heavy duty clamping cauls out of SuperStrut, and some clamping stands out of plywood...

Laminating 3 "sub-slabs" of 6 boards each: glue, cauls, clamps...

Running the 3 sub-slabs through the jointer and planer to get them to almost final thickness...

Doing another glue-caul-clamp process, this time to join the 3 sub-slabs into one monster top piece. The cauls worked wonderfully, necessitating only a little glue scraping at the seams, and the top was flat and smooth. MANY thanks go to my lovely and gracious Glue-Up Helper Squad! :)

To be continued, after we recuperate and eat some more Wheaties... :)  :)