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7 July 2013 at 3:32 am #14514
I’m late on this one but I figured I would pile on. I finished my roubo style bench a month or so back. The top is 5 inches thick pine made from 2×6 material. The legs are about 5 1/2 square made from non treated Doug fir beams. This one has the through tenon and sliding dovetail connecting the legs to the top. Honestly I like the bench but I think that it was too much for one of my first projects with hand tools. I have to admit that I did thickness the boards for the top with a power planer. I flattened one face with my jack plane and then ran them through to get parallel faces. You can see my moxon vise in one photo. The is 8/4 poplar jaws and hand wheels made from walnut. Other than that I use planing stops, holdfasts, and bench hooks for the bulk of my work holding.
Dan Marshall
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I’m new to this forum and new to woodwork. Got the buzz after my wife and I converted our van to a camper. We’re about to buy a new house and it needs furnishing, so why not build our own? Well that’s the dream. Definitely time to take a step back and start small.
We’ve decided to give it a go with hand tools, having watched Paul’s excellent videos on building a workbench and seeing as I don’t already have one, we though that would be a good start.
Attached is a PDF drawing of the planned bench (ignore the fun metric dimensions, they’re pretty much all sensible imperial conversions). Any thoughts would be appreciated. I haven’t included the face vice yet, as I’m still thinking about what root to go. The bench will be in a 7′ x 22′ workshop / garage, so will end up against a wall.
Anyway, we’re still a little way off exchanging contracts, so nothing will happen before then. I’m in the process of trying to build a good quality basic tool kit (Rip cut saw, cross cut saw, tenon saw, Planes (no.4 and 5) and some chisels so far), that should be enough to get us started and we’ll buy them as we need them. I know we need a whole bunch of clamps, as funds are very tight, we’ll probably get a bunch of cheap aluminium clamps (as Paul uses in his workbench videos) just to get us up and running.
Just for fun I’ve also attached a photo of our camper conversion.
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Welcome buddy, you seem to have everything covered. Take a look at the benches in the gallery, for Inspiration. Nice job on the camper, HaHa not getting into the metric vs imperial debate, I use both at times, nothing wrong with either as long as it works for you.Enjoy the forum, and your woodwork. 😉
12 July 2013 at 2:34 pm #14689Welcome Ian, the camper looks pretty cool!
The Bench plan looks pretty good, I believe you have a pretty good concept of how that thing is to go together.
In the quest for tools, be warned, ebay is very addictive!!
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