A heavy, mortise-and-tenon and dovetail-jointed woodworking workbench design based on plates published in Andre Jacob Roubo's eighteenth century French cabinetmaking treatise, L'Art du Menuisier, featuring a thick slab top, integrated leg vise and, in many modern builds, a tail vise for holding work steady during hand-tool joinery. Roubo (1739-1791) published his three-volume, over 300-plate treatise in 1774; the workbench design drawn from it saw a significant revival among hand-tool woodworkers in the early twenty-first century and remains a widely built benchmark plan for a serious hand-work bench.
Facts
Designer or Originator OriginBased on plates in Andre Jacob Roubo's 1774 French treatise L'Art du Menuisier; the specific workbench plan saw a major building revival among hand-tool woodworkers in the early twenty-first century. 1 Distinguishing Technique or ResultA thick slab top is joined to heavy legs with pinned mortise-and-tenon and dovetail joinery, paired with a front leg vise, built to resist the racking forces of hand-tool joinery rather than machine work. 1 Connections
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Tools Used
Jointer Plane is used in Traditional Roubo Workbench Plan.
Sources
1. Andre Jacob Roubo (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIntroduction, third sentence, on Roubo's workbench design
Another of Roubo's legacies still used today is a design for a workbench, which has proven to be popular amongst modern woodworkers.
Legacy paragraph, sentence beginning Another of Roubos legacies still used today
Another of Roubo's legacies still used today is a design for a workbench, which has proven to be popular amongst modern woodworkers.
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