re: Assembly and sanding

Everything looks great but instead of filling your finger joints with wax use the same wood in the same grain direction and cut a very thin shim and glue it in. Or… clean out you orbital sander, then sand some of the same wood and get a good amount of dust. Then if you can get some of the tightbond translucent glue and mix the glue and just sanded dust and make a filler. That way it’ll still stain up or take a finish. Try your filler out in a grove first. I have made my own fillers that way and have had good results. For your bisquet issue time to just brake out the router and route out your bisquet and then plug it with the same wood in the same grain direction use the translucent glue you’ll never see any glue joint.