The rail strips are glued into place one-by-one. Once the glue has set, the rails need to be planed down to the same level as the ribs so that the top deck bonds uniformly to the rails as each rib flows smoothly into the rail at a right angle. The picture on the right shows the left rail planed down to rib height on one side. Using only hand planes, it took me an hour or so per side. Of course, it took me a fair amount of time to figure out what planes I needed, find the good ones on eBay, get them, learn to sharpen them, etc, etc.
The Jack plane shown in the bottom right of this picture was useful as it took off more material than the 6" block plan --at a cost. A 12" block plane carries a lot of momentum and it crushed ribs if I let the front end creep toward the center of the board.
A whole discussion re: tools is probably worthwhile - that'll be the next post.
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