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Today I attached the island side panel I glued in the last entry. Starting to look like something, huh? There's a lot of major clamping involved to hold it in position (otherwise it starts "pushing out" and creating gaps when you screw it in). As it turned out, I made them a little too wide, but the vertical 2x4's in back aren't totally aligned properly, so the extra actually will give me some fudge room to shim the final trim pieces in back (this will make more sense in my next couple entries).

After installing that, I glued up the edge trim pieces for the other side panel. Pretty much the same deal as the last entry, but I went a little more nuts with the clamps this time. I'll attach it either later today or tomorrow. Next step is to cut and attach some small trim pieces on the back side (they just have to cover 2x4's), and then I'll make an appt for the Lowe's countertop folks. I also need to install the "brown-black" Ikea toe kicks, but I'm waiting to borrow my friend John's sliding-compound-cuts-at-any-crazy-angle saw so that I can easily do 45 degree angle cuts on the edges. I mocked it up the other day, and though they're currently a little too tall to slide in place (easily fixed with table saw), the almost-black toe kicks look really nice beneath the metal- I'm glad I'm using them instead of the mahogany ones.