Sand and Dry Panels

It's been about 3 days. The panels are looking freaking incredible. These are already done. There's two behind here. These are the sides. The biscuit joints were clutch move. These are nice and flat. I got to do a little bit of sanding on the back side just to make it clean all around. This is going my side panel. There's going to be two of them, so I made a little bit longer of the offcut pieces that I had, straighten the side, cut it in half cuz I only really need two 18-in pieces and this will be perfect. Now, I got to do the bottom piece and I got to do the top lid piece. We'll glue those up, let them enough time to dry, sand them, and then we'll be ready to start seeing what kind of mess we're going to start building with all this stuff. It's always so fun to see panels like this come to life cuz now you're like, "Oh, we just sculpted something." Sculpting we did, folks. I'm dreading this part, sanding. We got a ton of sanding to do. We got panels all over the shop. They're all done. They're all glued up overnight. Uh the back side is the ugliest side because that's where a lot of stuff is dripping and I couldn't wipe it away. The front side, where all of our chamfers are, they're fine. They're looking good. I don't want to kiss pee too much. Going to hit it with 80 grit, work up to 120, finish up with 220. And I got a feeling with those little notches that we chamfered out, we're going to have to do a little bit of a deep sand, a little micro adjustments there just to make sure everything's nice and clean. Cuz you see, that's the double-edged sword with this whole Titebond 3 wood glue. It's waterproof, which is wonderful and super strong tensile strength. But, when it does dry, it has more of a whitening effect even though you clean it up with tons of, you know, damp towels and stuff like that. Got to clean all the little hazy white stuff off the front, you know. That's the cost of having a nice, strong glue.