Due to popular demand, we bring you more workbench photos...

One week ago today, I finished building my 18th century Roubo workbench down in Kentucky. Since then we have made the (long) trip home, unloaded the bench into the garage where it is, er.. acclimating before it is installed in the workshop, and generally trying to get caught up on non-woodworking endeavors. My muscles are also acclimating to engineering duties after several days of manual labor. My legs are feeling more rested, but my mouse finger seems to be cramping up a bit.


I hope you have enjoyed the videos posted on the Chris Schwarz Blog (one for each day of the class). I also took pictures throughout the class and have posted them on my Picasa site. There, you will find my least embarrassing photos of the class and photos of a neat little field trip we took to the Saulmon Early Technology Class at Berea College.

I don't have a photo of the finished bench yet because, well it's just not finished yet. I need to finish drilling dog-holes and holes for the hold-fasts. I also need to plane the top flat and work the front and back edges to make them coplanar with the legs. And there is still some finish work to do on the vises, not to mention the finish itself. So it may be more than a few days before I post a photo of the finished bench.

Until then, I hope you enjoy the class photos. You can also start making arrangements for your own bench (Ben). I require a minimum of two meals per day and will not work more than 12 hour days. Also, you have to be willing to accept help from Ella, Elisabeth, and Peter as required (they're really quite good!). And there's no guarantee that we will finish within a week.