brianspence

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This is my progress so far on the Roubo style workbench. I am attempting to build this entire project using only hand tools. While I have 10 years experience in woodworking, I have limited experience in hand tools and have only books to guide me. So I am learning as I go.

The basic understanding of procedures comes with my experience, but the work is slower. It gives me time to think about what comes next and to plan out the bench. Working with a tablesaw would have made the top a weekend project but flattening it with a #5 Jack plane is a time consuming task. But it is a time when I can relax and listen to some music in the shop and there are no machines that the music has to compete with. 

After 6 years of waiting, I finally have a space I can build a workshop and finally get to building the things I see in my mind. And after quite a bit of thought I have decided to make it an all hand tool shop. And in addition, I have been felling my own trees for lumber in the future. These types of things take patience, you have to wait for the wood to season. But if well planned I will have a limitless amount of wood in two years that I can replenish as needed.

My plans are to take those trees in raw form to lumber to finished project completely by hand. It’s going to be an adventure…. 

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