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.
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"
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!
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.
TOOLS LIST Everything shown or mentioned in this video or the accompanying article. SUPPORT 3:34 two sawhorses with extensions 12:14 saw bench SHARPENING 0:20 chisel and plane blade sharpening station (background) 9:30 pencil sharpener (not shown) saw sharpening tools (not shown) MEASURING 5:05 three winding sticks 7:20 two winding sticks 5:26 straight edge, metal 5:41 straight edge, wood 6:01 tape measure 9:30 12 inch combination square 13:19 sliding bevel 19:10 small ruler 24:17 saddle square, Veritas MARKING 9:30 pencil 18:34 mechanical pencil (Pentel Sharp Mechanical Drafting Pencil, P205, 0.5 mm, black plastic, probably soft lead as he's mentioned that elsewhere. This is the most important tool hence the longest entry here.) 18:57 marking gauge, Tite-Mark 19:12 gel pen, black ink 24:07 knife 27:54 dividers 27:54 compass CLAMPING 3:34 four f-clamps (12 inches?) 6:06 eleven Bessey k body clamps 9:23 end vice with lag bolts and washers 12:01 two brass bench dogs 15:54 hold down, Veritas 25:17 two quick clamps CHISELS 9:30 mortise chisel 15:12 wide, socket, bevel-edge chisel (1 inch?) 16:34 paring chisel 30:16 socket, bevel-edge chisel (Lie-Nielsen 3/4 inch?) PLANING 5:14 jointer plane 6:38 jack plane with curved blade 9:20 block plane 21:30 router plane 29:34 fore plane mentioned but not used 31:35 smoothing plane 36:56 shooting board 37:24 plow plane 37:36 molding plane for bead? SAWING 6:14 bandsaw, Grizzly G0636X 6:43 crosscut hand saw 11:35 rip hand saw 11:30 rip tenon saw (Lie-Nielsen) 15:03 crosscut carcass (or sash) saw 15:45 bow saw for curve on end vice chop (see article) 36:45 miter saw and box HAMMERS 11:50 heavy mallet, metal, 2 lbs, wood faces 15:18 smaller mallet, metal 25:29 rectangular face mallet, wood 32:25 framing hammer DRILLING 9:34 brace with 8 inch sweep (10-12 inch sweep better) 9:34 auger bit for bench dogs 9:23 bit for tail vice lag bolts pilot hole (not shown) 19:33 large auger bit 25:22 depth stop 26:51 3/8" auger bit 37:05 egg beater drill (Miller Falls #2?) 35:42 small twist bit for nail pilot hole OTHER 5:55 spatula 8:18 epoxy gun 31:16 dowel plate for making pegs 31:20 tools to make 4 degree wedges? 31:54 Phillips screwdriver face vice garder 34:50 salsa jar with lid 35:31 rag socket and wrench for tail vice lag bolts (see article) rasp for end vice chop (see article) and possibly pairing through mortise screwdriver for attaching end vice chop (not shown) LIQUIDS 5:51 hide glue 8:13 flexible epoxy 8:13 pigment, mars black (Gamblin) 24:58 Titebond glue 31:12 slow-set epoxy 30:40 varnish 30:40 boiled linseed oil 30:40 paint thinner (mineral spirits) I read a follow up article online that Christopher Schwartz wrote a year later. He seems to regret the flexible epoxy to fill the cracks in the bench top. When the slab shrunk, the epoxy bulged. When the slab expanded, the epoxy dipped. General observation: It seems a bit strange that a bench that doesn't respect basic wood movement principles is so prized. The bench top expands and contracts but the short stretchers (and shelf boards) don't meaning the legs are out of square with the top. But the leg fronts being coplanar with the front of the top is a big selling point of the design.
great information and well said in your videos. Its true that we are a electronic society , machines and such. Your explanation of grain and movement of wood was good. I am a novice but I like to build things that are meant to last . Peter from New York
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.
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!
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
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!
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."
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.
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.
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.
Glad to see that Sheldon vise on the end. Mine is my most used vise, and I only paid $3 for it at a yard sale. Unfortunately mine doesn't have the popup dog, but the bench it's installed on is built against a wall and on the front so dogs wouldn't be much use anyway.
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
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.
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.
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. :(
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 enjoyed learning a few things watching this, but more importantly, I will save this video for those times I have trouble going to sleep. I oughta' watch it again to see if I can pick up anything from those portions I slept through. But first, I'm gonna' take a nap.
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.
An incredible video by an incredible woodworker. Chris has helped me get through several seemingly impossible tasks (stopped grooves, anyone?), but my question is: where the heck do you get kiln-dried 16/4 cherry boards and which of your children do you have to sell to purchase it?
Amusingly, in his book The Anarchists Workbench he explains he actually got these slabs for free. They'd been sitting in a parking lot for a couple years. He goes on to explain that they were not nearly as sound as he thought - and some time later a huge chunk got knocked off the bench top due to its sponginess
@@timkaiser8149 Ah, I haven't read that yet. I've been forming my plans based on the red book and finally found and milled a big white oak log into 24/4 quartersawn boards/beams.
@@timkaiser8149 Ah, thank you! I haven't read that yet. I've been forming my future roubo plans based on the red book and finally found, and milled, a big white oak log. Now we wait 5-6 years for it to air dry (or could vacuum kiln like Matt Cremona). Chris mentions that he experimented with making benches out of green (oak?) in england.
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.
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"
Remember having to search library books for years to find 20% of this. This is wonderful.
I do. It sucked balls.
Have to get a bus to the library too.
Probably the best video I have ever seen on making a bench. Thanks so much.
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
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.
I like this video and have watched a couple of times.
Thoughtful, logical, not gimmicky and no grandiose claims.
Thank you
Wow. Best dang woodworking video ever!
Loved you on the show with Roy. You guys meshed well.
TOOLS LIST
Everything shown or mentioned in this video or the accompanying article.
SUPPORT
3:34 two sawhorses with extensions
12:14 saw bench
SHARPENING
0:20 chisel and plane blade sharpening station (background)
9:30 pencil sharpener (not shown)
saw sharpening tools (not shown)
MEASURING
5:05 three winding sticks
7:20 two winding sticks
5:26 straight edge, metal
5:41 straight edge, wood
6:01 tape measure
9:30 12 inch combination square
13:19 sliding bevel
19:10 small ruler
24:17 saddle square, Veritas
MARKING
9:30 pencil
18:34 mechanical pencil (Pentel Sharp Mechanical Drafting Pencil, P205, 0.5 mm, black plastic, probably soft lead as he's mentioned that elsewhere. This is the most important tool hence the longest entry here.)
18:57 marking gauge, Tite-Mark
19:12 gel pen, black ink
24:07 knife
27:54 dividers
27:54 compass
CLAMPING
3:34 four f-clamps (12 inches?)
6:06 eleven Bessey k body clamps
9:23 end vice with lag bolts and washers
12:01 two brass bench dogs
15:54 hold down, Veritas
25:17 two quick clamps
CHISELS
9:30 mortise chisel
15:12 wide, socket, bevel-edge chisel (1 inch?)
16:34 paring chisel
30:16 socket, bevel-edge chisel (Lie-Nielsen 3/4 inch?)
PLANING
5:14 jointer plane
6:38 jack plane with curved blade
9:20 block plane
21:30 router plane
29:34 fore plane mentioned but not used
31:35 smoothing plane
36:56 shooting board
37:24 plow plane
37:36 molding plane for bead?
SAWING
6:14 bandsaw, Grizzly G0636X
6:43 crosscut hand saw
11:35 rip hand saw
11:30 rip tenon saw (Lie-Nielsen)
15:03 crosscut carcass (or sash) saw
15:45 bow saw for curve on end vice chop (see article)
36:45 miter saw and box
HAMMERS
11:50 heavy mallet, metal, 2 lbs, wood faces
15:18 smaller mallet, metal
25:29 rectangular face mallet, wood
32:25 framing hammer
DRILLING
9:34 brace with 8 inch sweep (10-12 inch sweep better)
9:34 auger bit for bench dogs
9:23 bit for tail vice lag bolts pilot hole (not shown)
19:33 large auger bit
25:22 depth stop
26:51 3/8" auger bit
37:05 egg beater drill (Miller Falls #2?)
35:42 small twist bit for nail pilot hole
OTHER
5:55 spatula
8:18 epoxy gun
31:16 dowel plate for making pegs
31:20 tools to make 4 degree wedges?
31:54 Phillips screwdriver face vice garder
34:50 salsa jar with lid
35:31 rag
socket and wrench for tail vice lag bolts (see article)
rasp for end vice chop (see article) and possibly pairing through mortise
screwdriver for attaching end vice chop (not shown)
LIQUIDS
5:51 hide glue
8:13 flexible epoxy
8:13 pigment, mars black (Gamblin)
24:58 Titebond glue
31:12 slow-set epoxy
30:40 varnish
30:40 boiled linseed oil
30:40 paint thinner (mineral spirits)
I read a follow up article online that Christopher Schwartz wrote a year later. He seems to regret the flexible epoxy to fill the cracks in the bench top. When the slab shrunk, the epoxy bulged. When the slab expanded, the epoxy dipped.
General observation: It seems a bit strange that a bench that doesn't respect basic wood movement principles is so prized. The bench top expands and contracts but the short stretchers (and shelf boards) don't meaning the legs are out of square with the top. But the leg fronts being coplanar with the front of the top is a big selling point of the design.
Any pointers to the alternative design that takes into account wood movement?
Timeless, what a bench. Chris, you are artistry in motion, you make it so clear and straight forward. Nicely presented.
great information and well said in your videos. Its true that we are a electronic society , machines and such. Your explanation of grain and movement of wood was good. I am a novice but I like to build things that are meant to last . Peter from New York
Christopher, Thank you for this. You are a wonderful teacher. Blessings on you and your family.
Este foi o melhor vídeo que já vi sobre a construção do banco romano
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 : )
I'm so glad that someone finally made a video showing the steps to build a true to the original, Roubo workbench!
Me too
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.
Terrific presentation and material - thank you Chris.
Very nicely put together with the breaking down of the project into each simple step.
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!
Wow... hats off for the passion and the timeless craftsmanship
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
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.
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!
I love the analogetic comparisons in the beginning.
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
This was a beautiful step-by-step presentation - you're a born educator and artisan!
Great video. Thorough instructions and explanations of the WHY and WHY NOT.
Oh what a great joy to live vicariously through that backsaw. Beautiful work, workmanship, workers working.. All good, thank you. very much!
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.
Man I wished I saw this a month ago, things would have gone so much better for me
Thank you Pop Wood, I click on this video and Chris appears ! It’s like Christmas morning for me ! Awesome!
This bench is really a useful piece of art!!!
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."
Great explanation! Maybe I’ll take this project on.
This was a very informative demo Mr Schwarz, cheers
Excellent commentary. Not to mention nice bench.
Thanks for the reality check to bring me back to basics as I consider over investing into CNC.
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.
Best vid I’ve seen on the subject. Thank a lot.
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.
Very well done. I have viewed innumerable vids of people making benches and this is in the top 5.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing.
Incredible work Chris.
Still one of my favourites to watch and learn from,
Thank you for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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
Glad to see that Sheldon vise on the end. Mine is my most used vise, and I only paid $3 for it at a yard sale. Unfortunately mine doesn't have the popup dog, but the bench it's installed on is built against a wall and on the front so dogs wouldn't be much use anyway.
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
I will never ever do this but what a fascinating video.
I wish I was as passionate about my craft as this man is about his
Incredible piece of work.
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.
What a Great Jon my friend. Congrats. Beautiful piece of art.
I've never seen quick release vices before! Cool
Really inspiring and so clear. Thanks so much for doing this.
Great instructional video. I have 2 workbenches now which I purchased, but I’d like to build the next one once I have room.
This man is Jeremy Irons of woodworking.
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.
A great tutorial and a fabulous bench it’s the only one I’d ever need thanks for sharing 👍
Beautiful job!
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.
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.
An exceptional instructional video. Well done.
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.
His voice is one of the most relaxing I've ever listened to. Really enjoyed this and the end result was very classy.
Awesome bench Christopher! Thank you for sharing.
Awesome and very instructional video.
Amazing joinery!! Loved the video and learned a ton..!!
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful skill you have. Robert
Awesome workmanship
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.
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.
Thank you for captions, PW! This DVD is phenomenal.
Why do you call this a DVD?
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 don't know what to say 😊 outstanding indeed . 👌
Thats a great video good work thank you for sharing 😎😎
Glad to see the whole process. For the depth of the tenon I think a Ryoba would be perfect. One saw instead of two. :)
Now that's what I call a bench !!
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
A tip is to add a trapdoor to the tool shelf to get a way to easily sweep out any sawdust and woodchips that end up there.
As like always well done..
Please aded a list of tools used hopefully with links to where we can buy them. love the video and this one caused me to subscribe to your channel.
Clean cut Chris.
That was very interesting, thank you
This was a good watch
I enjoyed learning a few things watching this, but more importantly, I will save this video for those times I have trouble going to sleep. I oughta' watch it again to see if I can pick up anything from those portions I slept through. But first, I'm gonna' take a nap.
Ken NN, VA I zonked out with two minutes left 😴
Great video. Very practical approach with all the necessary details covered. Didn` t like the synthethic glues/epoxy` s and finish however.
I bought your book. Good stuff!
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.
Great video
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.
Excellent.
Very well done easy to understand, ho did you get the 8 degree on the plane blade,how did you determine that on the blade
Thanks for sharing very informatic
What a great vid! definitely checking the plans
Fantastic video thanks
Exelente video, muchas gracias por compartir.
Thank you so much for this great video on the best workbench ever designed! Question: where can I find some of the epoxy you used?
I need that book in my life !!! 😭😭
Keep it up sir nice work
An incredible video by an incredible woodworker. Chris has helped me get through several seemingly impossible tasks (stopped grooves, anyone?), but my question is: where the heck do you get kiln-dried 16/4 cherry boards and which of your children do you have to sell to purchase it?
Scott Collins look for a lumberyard or sawyer that carry mantle stock etc, still not easy to find but its out there
Amusingly, in his book The Anarchists Workbench he explains he actually got these slabs for free. They'd been sitting in a parking lot for a couple years. He goes on to explain that they were not nearly as sound as he thought - and some time later a huge chunk got knocked off the bench top due to its sponginess
@@timkaiser8149 Ah, I haven't read that yet. I've been forming my plans based on the red book and finally found and milled a big white oak log into 24/4 quartersawn boards/beams.
@@timkaiser8149 Ah, thank you! I haven't read that yet. I've been forming my future roubo plans based on the red book and finally found, and milled, a big white oak log. Now we wait 5-6 years for it to air dry (or could vacuum kiln like Matt Cremona). Chris mentions that he experimented with making benches out of green (oak?) in england.
@@tenaciousjeebs 24/4! That'll be amazing! ...now if you'll excuse me I'm off to go look into this vacuum kiln idea. :D