Curved Garden Bench from Cedar Laminations

Step 6: Trimming the rails

It’s impossible to glue these so accurately that you’ll get a smooth top and bottom.

The easiest way is to trim them with a hand held electric planer.  You’ll need to install the “guide”.  Because the rails are curved you need to be very careful as you do this to prevent the plane wobbling and digging into the material.

Here I am trying to figure out how to align a bunch of curves..