Roubo Woodworking Bench Plans

They are rock solid and have amazing work holding abilities.

Roubo woodworking bench plans. I m off on another path for my bench but the roubo might be a good option to build with my son for him. We developed this plan so woodworkers could build a bench using our tail vise and glide leg vise without having to figure out all the details. After examining many many workbench designs and almost settling on a german style bench i came across the 17. Split top roubo plans unique apart from the split top and gap stop features is that.

Roubo workbench instructions plans and videos this workbench is based on a design by the 18th century french carpenter and author andré jacob roubo. Creeves makes 2 211 639 views. This massive hybrid bench part french roubo part german holtzapffel and part english nicholson gives you the ultimate in work holding abilities. I wrote about this bench in fine woodworking tools and shop issue 2012 the cover article you can size the bench to suit the space you have available i ve built these from 54 to 84 long.

The simplicity of the roubo bench is certainly attractive and you designed the bench in a similar fashion so a lot of folks can build it without many tools. The time has finally arrived. Our split top roubo bench plan is based on andre roubo s bench from plate 11 of l art du menuisier with the added capabilities of benchcrafted vises. This is going to be less of a step by step tutorial and more a series of tips and a review of what i learned making my workbench.

We ve built dozens of these roubo benches over the past decade helped others build hundreds more and examined extant french benches from the period. You need to provide the vise hardware. This style of bench is named after andré jacob roubo a french woodworker who lived during the 18th century and wrote a massive three. This is the bench these plans are based on.

Construction notes and techniques tackling a project of this size requires knowledge and skill in basic woodworking processes and techniques. 34 videos play all old timey woodworking videos stumpy nubs creeves makes the mobile outfeed assembly table with kreg features ep020 duration. After almost two years of dreaming about building a workbench for woodworking and sitting on a cache of wood for the project for nearly a year we re building a roubo workbench. Henn has 20 years of experience as a woodworker teacher and has written for a number of woodworking publications.

Split top roubo 87 version w shelf and sliding deadman. We haven t changed our opinion on this fundamental design.