I notched the legs, and then decided they needed a taper so went back and did that as well. I'm going to have to do a bit of sawdust clean up as there are some gaps here and there, but not bad for my first attempt at this.
Last week I dimensioned the aprons and shelves, and cut the tenons on everything. After a bit of fine tuning with a rabbet plane everything is nice and snug. Dry-fitted Tables The plan is to notch the legs to accept these shelves. Given that the shelf wood was flat sawn I went with the slats to account for the wood movement, I didn't want it messing with the legs. Slatted Shelves
I started on some cherry end tables late last year and want to try to keep a build log of them and future projects. These are the legs all milled up and mortised for the aprons and drawer kickers. They're 5/4" square and will sit the tabletop at 25" high.