Building a Slab Top Roubo Workbench with Christopher Schwarz
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2024
- In this vintage Popular Woodworking video, follow along with Christopher Schwarz as he builds a Roubo workbench using a lot of hand tools (and a little bit of power tool muscle, too).
Get plans and more on this Roubo workbench here: www.popularwoodworking.com/ar... - Навчання та стиль
You are, no lie, one of my heroes. I didn’t see this for 4 years after I built my table. Your book was instrumental in my understanding and flex to my size. You helped everything about my woodworking… I’m now a professional woodworker. My table was and will always be my number 1 tool.
Remember having to search library books for years to find 20% of this. This is wonderful.
Still one of my favourites to watch and learn from,
Thank you for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Oh what a great joy to live vicariously through that backsaw. Beautiful work, workmanship, workers working.. All good, thank you. very much!
I enjoyed watching this build. From beginning to end was educational and per-sis in detail. Thank you I really want to build my own
So nice to see this video freely available! I first saw it maybe up about ten years ago and have been planning to build a similar bench since then. Thanks, Popular Woodworking!
Awesome bench Christopher! Thank you for sharing.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing.
Incredible work Chris.
Really inspiring and so clear. Thanks so much for doing this.
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful skill you have. Robert
What a great vid! definitely checking the plans
A great tutorial and a fabulous bench it’s the only one I’d ever need thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for the reality check to bring me back to basics as I consider over investing into CNC.
Best vid I’ve seen on the subject. Thank a lot.
What a Great Jon my friend. Congrats. Beautiful piece of art.
Wow. Best dang woodworking video ever!
Thank you Pop Wood, I click on this video and Chris appears ! It’s like Christmas morning for me ! Awesome!
This was a beautiful step-by-step presentation - you're a born educator and artisan!
Nice design and professional build. I've watched this previously and enjoyed it as much the second time around. If you've not seen it, there is also this Roubo design Chris helped with a few years back as part of presentation of Popular Woodworking, out of LVL's . kind of an interesting twist for a bench.
Great instructional video. I have 2 workbenches now which I purchased, but I’d like to build the next one once I have room.
I will never ever do this but what a fascinating video.
Love it Chris. I made my split top Roubo bench based on the Benchcrafted plans. The bench is very sturdy and has held up very well.
Timeless, what a bench. Chris, you are artistry in motion, you make it so clear and straight forward. Nicely presented.
Incredible piece of work.
Wow... hats off for the passion and the timeless craftsmanship
This bench is really a useful piece of art!!!
Very nicely put together with the breaking down of the project into each simple step.
Christopher, Thank you for this. You are a wonderful teacher. Blessings on you and your family.
An exceptional instructional video. Well done.
Very well done. I have viewed innumerable vids of people making benches and this is in the top 5.
As has been stated a thousand times, this is a clear presentation that provides so much useful information. Something in Chris's presentation style and elocution reminds me of Carl Sagan's Cosmos - I can imagine Chris describing that "to build a Roubo table, you must first create the universe"
Terrific presentation and material - thank you Chris.
A very impressive project. Inspirational to someone like me who's just starting out in woodworking and who will have to apply some reality and employ power tools. Great work.
The bench won't mind.
I love the analogetic comparisons in the beginning.
Loved you on the show with Roy. You guys meshed well.
This was a very informative demo Mr Schwarz, cheers
I wish I was as passionate about my craft as this man is about his
Awesome and very instructional video.
You are working with absolutely zero power-tools, and watching you is mesmerizing! I’m watching in absolute amazement as I see the other great Masters of Woodworking, through you. The Bench is stunning. It seems a shame to creat a piece of perfection and beauty, just to be used as a utility bench. Too beautiful for someone like me. However, for YOU the reasoning is obvious. An Artist doesn’t create a Rembrandt or DaVinci on a sheet of plywood resting on saw-horses, does he! The perfect blank canvas enspires a perfect work of Art. The handcrafted Roubo Workbench is Absolutely Magnificent! Thank You for showing us how the Old Masters would have made it.
Love this! I saw this twice and I have Mr. Schwarz's book "Workbenches."
Thats a great video good work thank you for sharing 😎😎
Great video. Thorough instructions and explanations of the WHY and WHY NOT.
Amazing joinery!! Loved the video and learned a ton..!!
Probably the best video I have ever seen on making a bench. Thanks so much.
Fantastic video thanks
Beautiful job!
Awesome workmanship
Hi Christopher, I came to know your work after I randomly found "The Anarchist's Design Book". Ever since, you've inspired me to enter the woodworking world. Thanks a lot for your great knowledge. Greetings from Argentina!
Thanks for sharing that
Wow , what a great class . Great at teaching you are my friend:) I’m a framer and finish carpenter and I’m still wanting to learn to build cabinets , doors and windows. And I was just given some redwood that came out of a 180 year old water tank in año nuevo in NorCal . So I’ll need a workbench to build a nice dinning table.
Man I wished I saw this a month ago, things would have gone so much better for me
You are a master instructor. I could never do as you do at 73 power tool are my items of work thank you for your help with the procedure
I'm not sure how long it took to produce this video, but you can see the color of the cherry top changing as the video goes on. Just beautiful.
You are making the old time lifestyle of hand work look easy, but at the same time, with equity, meaning. I will make one someday. Peace : )
Exelente video, muchas gracias por compartir.
I am in process of building my own roubo style bench. This is the best video there is on the subject. It is all in the details. I have learned many things doing this project. I wish I could build another. With the things I learned.
Everything is here in the video. You just have to listen. Great job, the one thing I would change is I would prefer more detail on laying out the lines.
Good layout = good results.
That was very interesting, thank you
Thank you for captions, PW! This DVD is phenomenal.
Why do you call this a DVD?
Clean cut Chris.
I don't know what to say 😊 outstanding indeed . 👌
Amazing video.
The bottom well under the bench top is actually called "une fonsure" (old French for "safe bottom") and is traditionally make to keep workpieces safe and away from tools to avoid damage.
I've watched this video a half-dozen times. It's just great. I've just started the process of turning some 100+ year old Douglas fir beams into my first proper workbench, and this video is very inspiring. Thanks for posting!
I’m also just starting a roubo with old growth Douglas fir beams. I salvaged them from an old barn. Best of luck to you
Awesome work.
Great explanation! Maybe I’ll take this project on.
Thanks for sharing very informatic
This was a good watch
I'm so glad that someone finally made a video showing the steps to build a true to the original, Roubo workbench!
Me too
I agree, very good job. Thank you specially for the link. I'll try to build one, with power tools mostly, I'm sorry, don't have all the tools you do.
Very nice build! I buildt one of these out of Birch, but with a split top, that has tool holder in the middle, and planing stop when i flip it around, it also has a sliding deadman. It doesnt have through mortice, but big wide tennons on the legs that go halfway into the top, the upper stretchers have bolts that go into the tops and pulls the tops down on the legs/frame. The big long stretchers are also similar, tennons that go some of the distance into the leggs, and through bolts that are tightened with the season, one reason for this is that my legg vise has a cast iron crisscross that goes into the leg, that pulls the whole leg clamp parallel when i thighten the vise. This way i can take it apart, incase i need to move some day, and it's in my basement, and this bench is heavy! solid as a rock, i have also added rubber to the leggs, and i simply cant move it, no amount of heavy planing or sawing are gonna get vibrations from this bench, it's funny when i see these expensive Lie Nielsen benches move around while the guy is planing and showing off a tool, he gets that much amount of movement from the bench while planing, and here i am throwing my weight at my roubo, and it simply wont move :P
Great video
Excellent commentary. Not to mention nice bench.
You are a good teacher, Chris. I've studied with Tedd Benson, Jay Van Arsdale, Makoto Imai and Jack Sobon, all good instructors and you are right up there with them. I will be building this bench in the near future. Probably out of "yellow wood."
Of all the "Masters" of woodworking I have seen, and there are many who blow me away, Christopher Schwarz and Rob Cosman are the two who I have to say I admire most. These men are so skilled in their craft it is taken to a new level. I can only dream of having the skills these men so clearly display for all of us mortals to see. Thank you!
Have you come across the works of Paul Sellers?
They are also fantastic videos as well. This video here has me transfixed even though I am only a few minutes in.
I like this video and have watched a couple of times.
Thoughtful, logical, not gimmicky and no grandiose claims.
Thank you
I need that book in my life !!! 😭😭
5 years ago I made one of these. I found the same drawing by Roubo and was able to calculate the dimensions and angles. I didnt have hardwood to work with so i used Spruce. The bench turned out beautiful and most of all was solid. It was flat, heavy had a leg vise and tail vise and saw many years of use. Its use diminished some because I build much larger pieces but its there if always needed. I expect it to outlast me easily.
Was the spruce solid enough? I have a very good supplier/prices near me, but i'd worried it would not be hard enough
As like always well done..
His voice is one of the most relaxing I've ever listened to. Really enjoyed this and the end result was very classy.
Excellent
Fun/great project
I've never seen quick release vices before! Cool
Keep it up sir nice work
Este foi o melhor vídeo que já vi sobre a construção do banco romano
Wow! ... I will watch this a hundred times while making my next workbench - if for no other reason, to remember I don’t have to swear all the time I’m cutting mortises.
Glad to see the whole process. For the depth of the tenon I think a Ryoba would be perfect. One saw instead of two. :)
Excellent.
This was such a great how-to. I got all the way to the end before I realized that I can't do it because I don't eat salsa so I don't have any salsa jars. :(
that is the funniest thing I've read today.
You don't eat salsa, you drink salsa
I keep mine in a whisky bottle with a cork--no threads to get gummed up.
Hahahaha! That's so funny!
There’s a video over on Popular Salsamaking you’ll want to watch. Unfortunately, you discover at the end that the salsa needs to be made … on a Roubo workbench.
Very Nice Video, very interesting, and thank you. F.Y.I. if you pour the mineral spirits with the spout in the upper position, you will not spill from the gallon can.
I bought your book. Good stuff!
This was a great video, but I never heard of use thinner or alcohol for smooth up the ends. My grandfather was a furniture builder, and I used to work as an carpenter in restore monumental buildings. So you see that there is always a learning moment in life. And like the way of roubo building.
Now that's what I call a bench !!
That height makes it look like a seating bench than a workbench. Lumbar spine alert!
Yes, it’s hilariously low. I don’t get how Christopher can work on that thing: he clearly knows his stuff, so it must work for him, but I genuinely don’t understand how. My lower back would protest within the first two minutes.
Great!
Хорошая работа!
Now that’s a book.
Don’t you wish he was still with them today. Loved the mag in this era!
The publications from Lost Art Press is the best.
Beating the waste out of a large mortise is very satisfying.
This man is Jeremy Irons of woodworking.
It has been a few years since I built my Roubo bench to 'Christopher's Specifications' . I gotta say, it is the heart of my little garage workshop. He does not put a sliding deadman in all his benches, but the his DVD shows one and I included it in my build....and use it frequently. His 8-hole pattern for the Crucible Tool holdfast also seems to hold up as all I really need. If you build this bench....do spring for the holdfasts, I do own a pair of Gramacy steel ones that now reside on the sawbench and are fine for there...but the malleable 1" ones from Crucible are WAY more fun to use.
Though he does mention this elsewhere in his writings, if you use a any finish on your bench top...do NOT allow any down the holdfast holes. If it's linseed oil, they will not hold well until it dries weeks and weeks later. Don't ask my how I know, ok? Anyhow.....if you build one of these, you will wonder how you ever got by without it. And Chris...if you read this, your body of work has been a huge help to me, much appreciated....Thanks! -Veteran '66-68
Great bit of information. Thank you for your thoughts, and thank you for your service. What a trying time in our history I hope you know how much you all are appreciated for it.
*edit for spelling
@@larrypostma2866 I appreciate your kind comments.....it is the duty of any citizen to serve if called....it is however also the duty of our government to use that service appropriately. That entire war was a fraud and a abuse of our trust...as has been the ones in Afghanistan and Iraq. Neither country had anything to do with 911....but of course we could not invade Saudi Arabia, eh?
-Veteran '66-68
Great video. Very practical approach with all the necessary details covered. Didn` t like the synthethic glues/epoxy` s and finish however.