Build an 18th-Century Workbench

The Workbench of Your Dreams...More than 35 minutes of step-by-step instruction...Complete ddetailed plans...Tips on cutting the joints by hand...How to build a bench if you don't have a bench...Flatten the workbench's top...Tons of digital extras...One of the most important workbench plans ever published appeared in A.J. Roubo's 18th-century masterwork ""L'Art Du Menuisier"" (The Art of the Craftsman). Roubo's simple and hulking workbench offers everything that the modern woodworker needs in a bench, whether you use hand tools, power tools or both....Roubo's bench is simpler than almost every other design out there ? so it's easy to build ? yet it excels at all of the workholding tasks in a woodshop....In this DVD, Christopher Schwarz shows you how to build the Roubo workbench using only hand tools (though you can use power tools if you wish). Schwarz, the author of Workbenches: From Design cTheory to Construction gUse(Popular Woodworking Books) also shares his insights into this influential workbench form, which he has been using exclusively since 2005....