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So Jason selected Stickley's Aurora Finish for his Flip-Top Table.  Perfect!  I already know how to do that one and I don't have to stop and run a dozen experiments to get a different color.  Awesome! So I pull up my handy dandy Stickley Aurora Finishing Recipe & Schedule post to follow my step-by-step notes at the bottom, to the letter. I mixed up the dye, per my own instructions, and applied

Alright, here's the latest progress.  All the mortises and tenons for the table base are complete and I spent a couple days cleaning out mortises and tuning the fit of the tenons. First up: the guide rails have double tenons and lock into the apron like so... The important detail is that the mortise locations in the apron are precise so that the guide rails run parallel to each other.