Thanks for the (over-generous) compliment. Keep them coming. Encouragement is always welcome. But I am making strides; each project looks a little nicer than the one before.
Sometimes you can turn lemons into lemonade. Without a TS, the hardest thing is to rip narrow stock, so I try to "design" for standard dimensions. I just had an(other) idea for how to make the legs on my bench/serving table.
I was thinking to rip down the wider pieces to close to the right width, make the dadoes and then trim the edges flush with a router after assembly. But while I was drawing it, I wondered if it might be a nice design element to leave the "excess" width as-is. I'll have to copy the "new" leg design into the full drawing, but so far I think it might work.