Welcome to more Roubo goodness. I celebrated the start of the Tour de France this weekend by working on my French workbench. Oh yeah and there were some fireworks about some kind of independance day celebration too. LOL. This week I turned my attention back to the legs and began work on my leg vise. Basically I want to do everything I can to the legs before I install them on the bench before they become permanent and hard to get to and move around.
So call the Guiness Book people because I cut the largest mortise I have ever seen in this episode!
Enjoy the show…
3 responses so far ↓
1 Marc // Jul 7, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Looking good man! That Festool vac just eats up those chips doesn’t it?
This episode really does a great job in showing how the modern woodworker can benefit from the use of both power tools and hand tools. Nice fit on that nut! Keep it up!
2 Bob Rozaieski // Jul 8, 2009 at 7:24 am
Great job Shannon! So often in our craft I think the hardest part of a task or project is just convincing ourselves that we can do it. Confidence in our abilities to take on complex operations is a big part of building our skill as craftsmen. Once we have the confidence to take on a task, it makes thinking through and executing the process that much easier. This episode is a great demonstration of this!
The bench is coming along nicely. Looking forward to seeing the finished product!
Bob
3 Shannon // Jul 8, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Marc, what can I say, I had Festool envy from watching your show and had to get that monkey off my back.
Bob, I can’t wait to see how this bench comes out either. It is definately a labor of love and the largest project I have undertaken.
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