Oh that would npt be too heavy. Mine is White Oak 24 x 74 , with 4x4 legs and a cabinet built in too. I used to be able to move it by putting a log under it to roll it. Don't even think I could lift one end now.

11 hours ago, Gerald said:

Oh that would npt be too heavy. Mine is White Oak 24 x 74 , with 4x4 legs and a cabinet built in too. I used to be able to move it by putting a log under it to roll it. Don't even think I could lift one end now.

...I've got a chunk of Swamp White Oak about 18" diameter, and about 7' long. Care to come help me try to move it? 

52 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

...I've got a chunk of Swamp White Oak about 18" diameter, and about 7' long. Care to come help me try to move it? 

 

No I am on disabled list from the last time.

Beautiful and functional bench by Chris. Thanks Keith for sharing! A Roubo was on my ToDo list but I inherited a decent bench and that inheritance kind of took the wind out of my sails. I love the one I have.

I truly think many here are selling themselves short. You most certainly can make one. While your joinery may not be as tight, the bench will function as it's iintended

 

The benches built by Roubo, his students, and those he employed were very practical, short on tight joinery, but joined well, and they served a purpose for the work and tools they used. They were far from being works of art as we enjoy creating today. Benches were another tool, often thrown together hastily, joined by hatchet and large chisel. They even racked and swayed with each stroke of the wooden planes they used, but they did the job. It hasn't been till relatively recent history that we've taken so much pride in our benches, the perfect fit joinery, the luxurious hardwoods. 

My point being, most anyone here can make a highly functional Roubo, it's not complicated, don't sell yourselves short.

Given that, unless your using traditional tools to build your projects, it wouldn't make much sense to build one.

 

Wiki | André Jacob Roubo

THEPATRIOTWOODWIKI.ORG

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1 hour ago, Gunny said:

 

No I am on disabled list from the last time.

Why do you think I was asking for help, I'm still trying to find...

15 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Hey!  What were those to round things rolling across the floor? 

 

https://blog.lostartpress.com/2020/04/10/workbench-tour-no-4-the-cherry-roubo/

 

https://www.popularwoodworking.com/article/the-return-of-roubo/

Current bench....main part was built in a Sunday afternoon....then other parts were added as needful...

54" long, 16" wide, 34" tall.   End vise, Leg vise, and a Crochet at the far end..about 7+ years old.  Seems to work just fine.

1 hour ago, steven newman said:

Current bench....main part was built in a Sunday afternoon...

 

 

  WHY am I NOT surprised???

 

 

See @Artie  no way it takes him a month.  

Lifting anything posted here would move you from the men's section of the choir to the upper ladies section. LOL

10 hours ago, Gunny said:

 

 

  WHY am I NOT surprised???

 

 

See @Artie  no way it takes him a month.  

On 12/1/2020 at 2:13 AM, John Morris said:

Beautiful and functional bench by Chris. Thanks Keith for sharing! A Roubo was on my ToDo list but I inherited a decent bench and that inheritance kind of took the wind out of my sails. I love the one I have.

I truly think many here are selling themselves short. You most certainly can make one. While your joinery may not be as tight, the bench will function as it's iintended

 

The benches built by Roubo, his students, and those he employed were very practical, short on tight joinery, but joined well, and they served a purpose for the work and tools they used. They were far from being works of art as we enjoy creating today. Benches were another tool, often thrown together hastily, joined by hatchet and large chisel. They even racked and swayed with each stroke of the wooden planes they used, but they did the job. It hasn't been till relatively recent history that we've taken so much pride in our benches, the perfect fit joinery, the luxurious hardwoods. 

My point being, most anyone here can make a highly functional Roubo, it's not complicated, don't sell yourselves short.

Given that, unless your using traditional tools to build your projects, it wouldn't make much sense to build one.

 

Wiki | André Jacob Roubo

THEPATRIOTWOODWIKI.ORG

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Wiki

 

John I think you're right, many of us would surprise ourselves with what we can accomplish, and it's easy to forget that. Thanks for the encouragement.

One day I hope to get around to building my own bench, but first I need the space. Then I'll migrate from the simple bench we inherited from one of the places we lived in (which isn't as solid as I'd like).

Ah, dreams.......

One my first "serious" woodworking projects was a Scandinavian bench from Tage Frid's plan.   I thought it was great in that involved most every kind of joinery -- M&T. dovetails, rabbet, dado, lap, and probably more I don't remember.   It has been a "good and faithful servant" for many years.  My two main objections is the tool tray just collected junk so I filled it in and it's a bit narrow and short for a lot of the furniture I make.

No pictures of my bench. It's still buried. But, I'll try describing it. 

The wrought iron legs, I'm told, started life as legs for a machinist's bench. There are four legs (how odd) each pair is designed to attach to the opposite faces of two 2X10s on edge. One low, about 12" up and one at the top.   This makes it possible to make the bench as long as needed. Mine's 8' long. The legs extend, with wrought iron webs, approximately 18" from the face of the 2X10, making a 4' wide top surface possible. It could be made even wider. My bench surface is two full 4X8 sheets of 3/4 MDF, Glued and screwed together and, banded with 3/4 oak and, surfaced with 1/4X2 pine strips adhered with TBII. I mounted an ancient Wilton vice toward one end of one long side. 

As a result of replacing 1000 SQ FT of oak ply flooring, we ended up with enough good, undamaged oak pieces to resurface the bench. A job for another day...when I get tired of tripping over that pile of oak flooring.

 

Edited December 6, 20205 yr by Gene Howe