Thank you, All!
I did have unfinished business... the floor of the cabinet. This was built up as a lapped assembly on a rabbeted board (at the front door) and a "lath board" underneath.
I did basic leveling with the SS Disc Sander, and final leveling with a sharp plane:
Here the deck-floor is dropped in at last 🙂
And the cabinet has been steel-wooled and waxed now:

Ready to be filled!
P.S. If you have good ideas on wine-bottle apparatuses made of wood, I'm all ears.
Chris

