Split Roubo Workbench #18: Attaching the top

That is a beautiful bench!

-- Ryan

Thanks Ryan. I just whipped it up real quick :^)

What’s up with the pic of the Bell Jet Ranger?

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Hooray! Hooray! It looks great, that end vise and the dovetails look sweet. First class. Congrats, and thanks for taking the time to do the write ups and taking all the pics.

Just for you Shane. Just for you.

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Most Excellent Build! If it uses even a third as good as it looks, you’ve a lifetime of Awesome in store…

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I bet moving that mass was no easy chore? She is a fine bench. I bet you are a proud father of a wondeful new bench.
Have you named it yet?

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Outstanding work Lysdexic, may it serve you well for years.

Named it? Wow I hadn’t thought of that.

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My wife was proof reading one of my blogs one night. I had put a adverb or pronoun in that was describing a tool as an animate object. She corrected me in saying it is not a living thing. I told her it is and didn’t change the statement.
Why as men do we refer to boats and cars as ole girl and name them?
I wonder.

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And Al said it was going to take you forever HA HA. Too cool Scott, You really made me proud of you young man. Snicker. The one shot makes it look like the stretchers are at different heights. I know it is not really but it was kind of a wired angle and you had me worried for a minute.What did you use to make the top 6×4s that top is thick for days it has to be one of the thickest I have seen. Do you have a 12 inch table saw or what?How did you rip boards that thick? How deep are the mortises you used for the stretchers and the rails? I really am proud of you. You’re really on your way my friend.

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Looks like you have been busy.

Just wondering if when its all over and your finished with the build are you going to take a sharp 3/8” chisel and gouge her a couple times?You know just to get it over with? ;)

Looks really good Scott

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Beauty Scott, very fine work and I’ll bet you’ll be able to plane some birdseye maple without it moving !

-- Glen, B.C. Canada

Dude, this bench has taken what seems like forever. I am not sure which pic makes it look like the stretchers are at different heights. I will say that the maple that I used is many different colors and limited in quantity. Thus, I picked the darker pieces for the most visible. Again, this was to diminish the contrast to the cherry legs.

Noitce the two upper stretchers are really light but disappear once the top is on. There is a lower stretcher that is lighter and it is in the back.

The top is just face glued to achieve the thickness. I milled for days – literally. My TS is a 10 incher.

Brandon – I am still contemplating the inaugural damage.

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Thanks for the kind words.

Dave – I will never name my planes. I heard they hate that and I wouldn’t want to anger them.

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I am confused. How to you operate the first doghole? The one closest to your tail-vise above the leg. My question is how do you push the dog back up?

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