Close Grain

When I built my Roubo workbench , I obsessed over how high to make it. Workbench height is always a compromise, because different tools and ...

Having completed my Roubo workbench , I feel like Neo in The Matrix when he wakes up in the chair after downloading skills for the first ti...

(Go back to part 15 ) I had originally said I wouldn't add the crochet. But I wanted to keep it authentic. This bench comes from a per...

(Go back to part 14 ) The sliding deadman has a gentle hourglass shape. I laid this out with a bowed ruler, then cut it out by kerfing and...

(Go back to part 13 ) Time to cut out the sliding deadman. By now some of these steps should be pretty familiar. Ripping to width. Jo...

(Go back to part 12 ) I didn't have any stock wide or thick enough for the sliding deadman, but I had plenty of waste left over from t...