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RWW 70 The Roubo Returns

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15 years ago
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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 a music teacher and I have not been in my shop much. What’s more is that I have hours of footage from my shop and from WIA that needs to still be edited into shows. Regardless, I think I have my wits about me again and I wanted to take a little break from the WIA coverage to show you some Roubo footage. I have been hard at work when I can get the time between other projects getting this beast completed. For all intents and purposes the bench is done. I still have to complete the sliding leg vise, but everything else is done. So this week let me show you how I finally completed the top by adding the front laminate and dovetailing it into the end cap.

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Hi,

I visited this blog through google and was surprised to se how much valuable information this blog has. What makes this blog so much special is the video demonstrations. It’s always better to watch someone do detailed things than to read about them. I a a complete newcomer and was really happy to watch and read information on this blog. Thanks for sharing.

    Shannon

    Welcome to the community and the woodworking obsession. I am happy to answer any questions you have but look around and explore the posts and podcasts. You can get them through iTunes as well if you want to download them and take them on the road with you. Let me know what kind of work you want to do and I am sure I can point you to many other great sites that will help as well.

    Shannon

Torch02

Aside from the beautiful bench top that you’re building, I wanted to say that I love that you left the music running during assembly, as if the camera wasn’t there and you were just working in the shop. It definitely adds a welcoming “this guy’s doing the same stuff I do” quality to the show.

Jerry Sats

Hey Shannon
The top turned out great , that front board looks nice from what I can see of it . I happened upon your site from LumberJocks , I’m not much of a blog person but I do like your style of blogging . The video quality and sound are great , keep them coming when you can . I know they take a lot of time to put together .

In the future you may want to try cutting some shims from the same material to fill those small gaps in your dovetails . Wedge and glue them in place and carefully pare off the excess . Picked this tip from Rob Cosman and Marc Spagnuolo.

BTW have you been back to Chuck Benders school ?

Regards
Jerry

    Shannon

    I’m going back to Chuck’s shop next year for fundamentals 2 and 3. Can’t wait for those. I have used the wedge technique on dovetails before. Unfortunately in this instance it is not a gap, but actually a piece broke off the edge of the tail so it is a shallow divot more than anything. The only way I could think to fill it would be to cut a piece that would fit in there or just fill it and forget it since it is a workbench. Thanks for stopping by and stick around more good stuff to follow.