Once I ran out of work on the workbench I turned to the cradle. Friday night I finished cleaning up the rest of the mortises and cut the grooves for the side slats. I was originally considering using the dado blade for the grooves but I quickly decided that was a bad idea. Instead I used a slot cutter on the router table, which worked perfect. I just bumped the sliding fence in to give zero clearance and went to town. The first pass I took was without the fence moved in close and there was some tearout so I'm really happy I made this nice fence awhile back.
Today I worked on getting the slats evenly spaced in the groove. It took a little math and some trial and error but I got them worked out. There's just under an inch between them. I cut a few little pieces to fill in the groove between the slats to show my wife what the finished product looks like. I'm going to have to figure out a good way to cut those little plugs because there are lots of them to be done.
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