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  1. Roubo Style Workbench

    Hi everyone. I just joined LumberJocks and wanted to post my new workbench. This was my first woodworking project and felt a bit like timber framing since the joints were so big. The top is made out of ash, the base and shelf are cherry, and the leg vice is quilted maple. I started with rough...
  2. Work bench, 85+ years in the making

    I guess you could say this was a family project. The top of this workbench came from an American Elm tree my Grandfather's brother planted in 1935. My Grandpa then transplanted the tree to his farm in 1940. My Grandpa passed in 2003 and my Grandma had to move from the farm in 2008. The...
  3. Toy box

    This box is made from one very wide sugar pine board! The last picture shows my 18" jointer plane sitting on the raw stock which was 24" wide! It wouldn't fit through my 18" planer, so I hand planed it. Pine is such a joy to work with! Dovetailed joints. One picture shows a dollar bill for...
  4. Work Bench

    I have updated the workbench with this Leg Vice. I have made a ratcheting dievice that allows the vice to clamp tight. I haven't put the ratcheting dievice where I want/need it because I want to hide it in the streacher. I am working on plans to retrofit it plus I might have drawings of the...
  5. Roubo Workbench

    This project is done at last every thing on this bench is laminated nothing bigger than a 2×6 except the leg vice jaws. Inlays are all Puruvian Walnut.
  6. Wedge Powered Leg Vice that Works.

    A couple of days ago I posted the wagon vices that I have installed in the "outside the box" workbench I'm building myself. Today it is the leg vice. It is a very simple mechanism. In fact you could call it plane if you were so inclined. (sorry). The jaws of the vice are fairly traditional...
  7. Outside the Box Workbench, This One is Different !

    This is the new bench I've been building for the last couple of weeks. I have to say that I've never had one of these and quite frankly, never understood what their attraction was. Then one day it dawned on me that I had spent my career building big things with power tools and that these were...
  8. Power Tools, Hardware and Accessories
    Greetings, I built a workbench. And I have seen, bench leg vice, and most have a wooden screw. So I bought a 1 1/8" x 20" @ 4tpi screw for a vice, that attaches to the leg of the bench. I got the screw to run parallel to the floor and centered in the holes that I drilled. Now, I know what...
  9. Woodworking Skill Share
    WEll here's the Roubo workbench at last seems like it took forever to complete, so now the fun starts I get work on it.
  10. Blogs
    Design Sketches My friend and I are in the planning stages of doing a joint, side-by-side build of some new workbenches. This will start with the logs and hiring a guy with a woodmizer to mill the timber in to boards. It looks like we are going to be using red oak, as we are able to get more...
  11. Blogs
    What parts of a work bench are most important? Now that I have finished the CHEVALET I need desperately to get the work bench done so here are my questions and thoughts. I have glued up half of the top and made two of the stretchers then the question came up do I use "Bench Bolts" or just use...
  12. Blogs
    Rough tenon jig I had a few request for this so here we go. I used this jig for the Really Rustic Chair and several other similar type projects. You want the hole to be a little bigger than the tenon size you want. You will need to make a template for each size. I had a couple more made but...
  13. Blogs
    Some Features and Operational Videos. While this is the beginning of my construction blog for the V8 Degree bench, I'm not actually going to get into the build just yet. There are a few more features that I didn't want to clutter the project post with and I've added a couple of demo videos on...
  14. Blogs
    Building a Semi-Classic workbench without taking a 2nd out on your house Here goes…. Traditional work benches (roubo for example) are out dated. I know, heresy. But it's true The reason they made those crazy over sized legs and joints was because they didnt have sheetgoods back then and...
  15. Blogs
    GAAAAHHHHHHH!! I can't take it ANYMORE!!!! Let me start by giving a brief overview of my shop, or the thing I like to call my shop. My "shop" is an 8'x8' shed that sits in my back yard with an extension cord, or sometimes two, ran out to it from the house. Lets face it, the thing is a mess! I...
  16. Blogs
    Workbench Base Finished I am busy building a split top Roubo workbench and have recently finished the base. The base is built from some left-over African Rosewood I had, while the top will be Hard Maple. The vices and sliding deadman will be made from Leadwood. Next up is installing some...
  17. Blogs
    Curly maple leg vice for English "Nicholson" bench. I've been working on this bench for I guess 2 months now on my days off. It's southern yellow pine. I dug around the shelf for at least an hour picking out boards at Home Depot, but could not find any without knots. Not one. Must...
  18. Focus on the Workspace
    I'm in the process of building a new bench. It's the shaker-style workbench from the Woodsmith Shop Plans. I just ordered the L.N. Leg vice screw and my question is, I have seen two different methods for attaching/adjusting the bottom of the vice. Most have the wood glide and a peg, but others...
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