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 Today we make blanks for the raised panels in the doors. This is done much like we did for the drawer fronts: rough mill two pieces for each panel, surface plane them, rip smooth edges, match them up for grain color and oreintation, joint the center edges for a glue joint then glue and clamp them together.
 Here's a handy little trick. There are two kinds of pipe that can be used in these 3/4" pipe clamps, grey and black. The black is much stiffer than the grey, making it much better suited to long clamps because if your clamps bend during a glue up, so does your panel. But, the black pipe leaves gnarly black marks on your wood, especially where moisture, or glue, touches them. To prevent this I place narrow masking tape on the pipe before laying in the boards to be glued. In this case we had only one joint, right in the middle, for multiple joints I'd run a strip full length on each pipe.
 After the glue has dried, use a flush plane or cabinet scraper to knock off the little pips of glue that are left standing above the woods surface. If you've got ridges of glue here, you're using too much glue. If you've got no pips, you're using too little glue producing a joint that is is starved for glue and will probably fail.
To finish the day's work we'll trim the blanks to finished size and sand them smooth.
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