Rob - I have no quarrel with your description. Your posts are very detailed and always useful (I have cut and pasted a few of your posts into my "methods" binder. I hope you don't mind.)

: I do understand that quite a few builders have difficulty in aligning strip
: edges

Quite so, for me. Thus the need to use planes and scrapers to tame the steps and unevenness between strips. I hope to do better on my second stripper, and the results you describe are an ideal to strive for.

: AFTER you have stripped your hull, if you have strips that are mis-aligned
: 1/32” or more, then fix the strip alignment before sanding. Use a razor
: knife and cut on the joint, apply glue and realign the strip edges.

Do you use B&C strips? Does this razor slash method work OK with B&C joints?

One item you left unsaid, perhaps because its so obvious, is that the beads & coves must be absolutely dead center on the edge of the strips in order to get proper alignment. Unfortunately, it didn't seem that obvious to me when I was setting up. I figured that "close enough" was close enough. Turned out it wasn't. Oh well, I won't make that mistake twice.