Roubo from a weed, or how I have come to hate red oak
Like many jocks out there, I’m in the process of building a new workbench. It will be pretty close to the Roubo that Chris Schwarz built, but sadly, my top will not be made out of pretty (if punky) cherry. No, I was fortunate(?) to have a supply of very thick red oak planks to work with. The top is made up of 3 pieces at 7.5” wide by 4” thick by 7’ long. It’s a beast! The legs are from the same stock, trimmed to 3”x5”. I’ve finished cutting the tenons and dovetail pins in the legs – I’m using the tenon+dovetail approach for attaching the legs. This week, it’s been laying out the mortises and dovetail sockets on the...
