The glass and sandpaper is good, but lay the cloth flat out single layer on top the plywood instead of bunched up under the glass. Bunched up can allow the glass to flex a few thousandths and negatively affect the surface flatness
you have great patience for the use of hand tools, I'd be slapping a hand belt stander across that thing faster than you can say lung dust. that being said, I'd also ruin it 5x before I even got to this stage
Don’t think of it as “terribly boring stuff”. Think of it as zen stuff.
Zen is fun
This looks like it is going to be interesting. Subbed here.
The glass and sandpaper is good, but lay the cloth flat out single layer on top the plywood instead of bunched up under the glass. Bunched up can allow the glass to flex a few thousandths and negatively affect the surface flatness
you have great patience for the use of hand tools, I'd be slapping a hand belt stander across that thing faster than you can say lung dust.
that being said, I'd also ruin it 5x before I even got to this stage
Tried that with the bench belt sander. It's not stable enough.