Updating a Classic: a Massive Roubo Workbench with a Powerful Addition
Reimagining the Roubo Workbench: A massive maple and walnut workbench with a superpower. Materials: Hard Maple Tops and Black Walnut base. Most of the bench is made from 8, 4 stock except the chop which was 12, 4 (+ 1, 4 of hard maple). Originally I was building a Hybrid Workbench, then I switched to a Roubo, then I designed the bench you see, so I had originally purchased around 180bd, ft of Hard Maple. When I scaled up the bench I decided to make the base out of Black Walnut and added another 150180bd, ft. I can t say exactly how much wood is in the bench but I can say there was very little waste as I originally selected specific walnut boards for each part of the bench. but I quickly ran short. As I had to use scraps, I got less picky. It was pretty interesting processing finding FAS black walnut with almost no heartwood, but that ended up on the cutting room floor. Dimensions: The benchtop is 27 deep, 6 thick, and long. The legs are 6 by 5 thick, an
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