Building a Better Plant Propagation Station

In this streamlined video I show the full build of a better plant propagation station than the one we made last time. It features some fancier, sturdier joinery and a nice color contrast between maple and black walnut hardwoods. Building these is easy and batch friendly. We will be listing a very similar item soon in our shop. Questions on anything going on in the video? Let me know in the comments. Thanks for watching and special thanks to all of our subscribers for your support!
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What do you think of the design? Would you change anything? Let us know in the comments =)

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planing it before jointing that side is pointless... you are only making the top parallel with the bottom, meaning if there is any waviness caused by cupping or warps on the bottom they are now also present on the top. The ideal prep is to joint two adjacent sides in order to form a 90 angle; next run the oard thru the planer ensuring that the flat side is face-down... now you have 3 sides at "perfect" 90 degree angles. Lastly run your piece thru the the table saw with the flat face against your fence.. Tada! a perfect 90-90-90-90 rectangle.

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Thanks for taking the time to comment and for watching. You are completely right about the process to getting boards 4S. Lucky for me the material was flat enough on both faces it could go right to the planer. There was actually no need to hit it on the jointer at all. I chose to out of habit so that it would ride my table saw's fence even tighter for a safer cut. In reality the edge was close enough already that running the edge through the table saw, then putting that edge up to the fence and sending it through the saw again would have been more than enough accuracy for this project because the faces were flat. I'm not sending anything other than perfectly flat over my router.