Long story short, I bought a bunch of 8/4 poplar for an aquarium stand a while back. I cut it into appropriate length pieces for that project so I could get it into my shop and start acclimating it.
Fast forward to now, and I'm about ready to start on that project. So I started laying out the design, scaling it for the room, and after a bunch of hemming and hawing, my wife and I both agreed we don't like that idea. So now the plan is a console for below the tv. The aquarium stand was going to be around 4' wide. The wood was cut to 4.5-5.5' long (mix of lengths to get 2 legs from the longer pieces or one 4' cross piece from the shorter pieces). The planned console table is looking like it'll be 6.5' long.
I'd like to use this wood if possible, I'm semi-limited on storage space and I don't use much poplar. I'll have a lot of resawing to do, but that's not the end of the world. The biggest issue is going to be getting a 6.5' long glue up for the top. Given I'm going to paint this, is there any reason I couldn't make a tongue and groove joint (or use the excuse to buy a glue joint router bit) to turn a 4' piece and a 2.5' piece into a 6.5'' board for a panel glue up? Or am I going to have to admit defeat and get the proper material from the sawmill?