The Renaissance Woodworker

Hand tools allow us to work in way not possible with a machine. Have you ever glued up a part and then thought, “dang, I should have chamfered those edges at the router table first”. While you can’t run a carcase across a router table easily, you can very easily use a block plane. For [...]

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How many times have you heard a fellow woodworker say that they are behind “schedule” on a project or, “I can’t believe how long that took to make!” I am plagued with this all the time. I did a podcast many months ago on organizing yourself when working on multiple projects. In that episode I [...]

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Here is another edition of my Roubo saga. Been sitting on this footage for about a month now and finally got it edited and put out. In this episode I will rout the grooves for the sliding leg vise. But first I need to make sure all the joinery points on the bottom of the [...]

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Welcome back to the show. I appreciate everyone’s patience while I took a few weeks off. My new job is going great but it has kept me very very busy. Add to that helping my wife at her school and attending all of the fall musicals and recitals that go with being the husband of [...]

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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. [...]

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I think of fine woodworking as a refined art. Sure we get to play with cool tools that make noise and dust, but we often need to refine that mess with an elegant hand tool. Fine woodworkers are also designers who toil over their sketch books and CAD programs to get just the right curve [...]

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So Roubo is not yet done, but I have been giving her a workout while blowing through a bunch of small projects. Since I don’t have my leg vises up and running I have been relying solely on my Benchcrafted end vise. Maybe I have been using it in a way that it was not [...]

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So you thought I would never get back to Roubo eh? For all of those skeptics out there, this episode is for you. As you all know I had built my legs several months ago as well as my stretchers and they have been sitting off in a corner of my shop feeling lonely and [...]

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So I haven’t had much to say about Roubo lately as I have been working on getting a few commissioned projects out the door as well as building my desk organizer for The Sawdust Chronicles 30 Day Build Challenge. I have however been working on the Roubo while working on all of these other projects. [...]

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