Braces

It was a beautiful day today so I decided to do some work on the lather braces on the back in the back garden. A few day ago I already glued on the remaining three braces with some inventive clamping methods:
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Three:

Back to today. The braces are on to the back now but need to loose some weight. So I went to work with a block plane. First I taped on a protective layer of low tack masking tape and then I stared planing down the sides of the braces at a very steep angle:

I also trimmed of the ends of the braces. The overall results looks pretty good: