My almost finished split top roubo workbench. I just couldn't wait any longer....

imtherebelrouser · 1 day

It looks great. On my big bench, I added dog holes on both aprons, though, which let you clamp and hold boards for edge planing. Just a thought.

Moopidoo · 2 days

I saw one in Oregon years ago, which had a company name and the motto, "Your shit is our bread and butter." Really.

thatguyinthesky · 2 days

On a related note, my son just graduated from college - that makes 3 kids I paid for through private colleges, not one of them has a dime of debt. Amazingly, I don't either.

ast3r3x · 9 days

Quarter-sawn wood, if you can get it, will cost a lot more, and for the workbench you've designed, where the pieces are independent and not glued up, not of any significant value.

You want to order 1 12' piece, not 2 6' pieces. You want 8/4 kiln dried hard maple, S4S (surfaced 4 sides) and ripped to the width you want. There's no standard way to sell wood; some hardwood dealers sell it rough only, some planed only, some sell it rough and will plane it for a fee. That fee will probably be pretty small, and worth its weight in gold to you. Regarding your last question, you absolutely want constant thickness AND a flat surface. In the bench you drew, if there isn't a flat surface across the tops of those two boards, it's useless; everything you glue up on it will be crooked.

ast3r3x · 9 days

Yeah, I just got that. Sorry.

ast3r3x · 9 days

The extra width allows you to rest tools on the bench as you work, as well as holding longer pieces steady. Also, it allows you to clamp longer pieces to the sides and top for planing.

You're right about the casters - I didn't realize until I looked again that the bench comes completely off the wheels when they're retracted. Sorry.

ast3r3x · 9 days

Have you ever done this? To hand-surface a hard maple board of 8" or so across the grain is just murder. You need to regrind the plane blade much steeper, and even at that you can only cut a curl of a few thous without the blade digging in. They call it rock maple for a reason. If he lines those two boards up, puts a straight edge across them, and finds them out by more than 1/16", he'll be in a world of hurt. The much, much better way to go is to buy the lumber as one board, planed both sides to the thickest dimension possible.

ast3r3x · 9 days

A couple of comments, from a pro woodworker:

1) You won't be able to hand plane the maple. Forget it, and get 8/4 maple planed.

2) Dog holes on the top.

3) Connect both tops from underneath, and add a solid bottom in the trough, for a "tool Tray." Also holds shavings and sawdust

4) 6' wide at least.

5) Either lose the casters or don't bother making it so solid. The whole point of 8/4 rock maple is so you can whale away on it with anything you've got. All casters are flimsy.

Also, I'd consider a tail vice.

TheUKLibertarian · 15 days

Yes, but it doesn't make Tom Cruise not a jerk, too.

Caserole · 15 days

Robot walks like it's got a turd in its pants.

trixiethesalmon · 16 days

I told people how great walmart was for the poorer parents in our town.

jchangart · 17 days

The Phantom Unleashed!

rastabean · 17 days

I retired to the country before 60, happily married for 30 years with 3 great children we're close with.

ptrin · 18 days

I've had one of these on my kitchen counter for about 5 years. No reason I won't have it FL. It doesn't stay shiny like that, though. It gets dull and grey in a few months. Kitchen waste is strong stuff. It needs to be scrubbed at least once a week.

Daesumnor · 19 days

Fine Woodworking magazine made a poster out of this long ago, which I've had framed in my shop for decades. Here's a link to more info about the tool chest including free desktop wallpaper and a link to the poster, which is for sale once again.

mistermajik2000 · 20 days

Handwriting used to be classy, too.

talemenow · 1 month

I guess these don't come in XXL. Or do they?

melp · 1 month

BBob Stine and I worked together at Scholastic Magazines in the late 1970s, when he was a book editor and I was a junk mail copywriter. He was a great guy then, and I'm sure he still is today.

mrunderhill23 · 1 month

I have one just like it, which I restored and use in my shop occasionally. It's a jointer plane, used for planing the edges of boards flat for gluing or for final truing of long edges. Mine came to be as a gift from a widow, and was in roughly the same shape. If all the parts are there, you will have a wonderful tool if you choose to restore it.

l1vewire · 1 month

The Kardashians.

Godzilla2y · 1 month

Looks like a toothpaste tube, or tube os some other paste, with a metal key to roll it tighter. I believe tubes of anchovy paste used to come this way, and older paints in lead tubes.

BeerIsDelicious · 1 month

And the question was...

CrazySmooth · 1 month

I guess so - I haven't found the answer here at all.

CrazySmooth · 1 month

I wonder why the center screw was 4-bladed while the side screws had 3?

wang-banger · 1 month

I disagree with the article - and would love to see the postal service go away - for different reasons than others.

First of all, way more than half of what the post office delivers is junk mail: ads, flyers, catalogs. Of the rest, another half is magazines. So 3/4 of this is replaceable by other media. Of the remaining, most are bills and financial forms, which could be delivered online if people would simply check the box to have it sent this way.

So in order to deliver all this crap and needless paper mail, ewe have tens of thousands of crappy trucks driving all over the roads all day long, polluting. You should see the POS our local carriers drive in neighboring towns: black smoke out of one, blue smoke out of another.

Get rid of them for a cleaner USA.

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