Glueing up the two halves of the large board required a lot of clamps and a few cauls. Cauls are pieces of wood that have a bow in them. I use them with the convex side down so that when I clamp from the ends, the caul applies pressure in the middle of the joint. That way, I can be sure that both halves are exactly level when I glue up. A little hard to illustrate with words, but it works. Check out the number of clamps I had to use. The cauls are the 2x4s that are clamped perpendicular to the piece.
Now comes the hard part: the handle. Chris and Chris would like triangular handles on two of the boards, which I've never made before. I can't use the table saw because I need to stop my cut along the way, and it would be guess work as to when to stop. As you can see, when cutting on a table saw, the cut is longer below the piece where you can't see it. I could do the cut on the band saw, but that's notoriously inaccurate. So I'll have to resort to some weird setup.
This is the set-up with which I came up. I installed a finishing blade in my circular saw and used a metal level clamped to the board as a temporary fence to guide the saw. Since the circular saw has a longer cut on top, I could see where to stop the cut. One stopped cut from the left, one stopped cut from the right, two angled stopped cuts from the end, and I had a nearly finished handle. All I had to to was to finish the cuts on the band saw and clean them up with a file.