The point of the Kitchen Roubo is to give Sarah a lower, solid work surface when working on dough. What better workstation and platform than a roubo? Got some pretty expensive French oak from Moxon Hardwoods that were rejects from the wine barrel making business. Turns out some of the stuff and heavy figure. However, most of it was quite case hardened (improperly dried), making it really difficult to work with. The stuff that was good however, was a dream to work with. About 28" high, 20" deep and 4' wide. Nice 4" thick legs, but could only manage about 1 7/8" thick top.
Basically after breaking down the lumber and picking and choosing the best boards for the top
Lots of jointing and keeping track of parts
Here are all the legs and stretchers with joinery cut. Note the legs have a notch for the casters, and the veneer on the legs attempts to hide as much as they can. Used zambus casters that were quite expensive - Jury still out on whether they were worth $100 paid.
Laminated top set aside ready mortices
Then I switched over to the new camera and lost a lot of photos.... The highly figured top with crazy ray fleck.
No so great picture, was testing the memory card because it appeared to have some issues, these were supposed to be test shots. Lost the keepers...
Don't know what happened to the WB. But the hand turned screw and hand shaped garter. Putting thread on the screw was a nightmare, despite the expensive Beall jig. Don't think french oak is a good wood for the female thread.
Hopefully, I'll have some better pictures coming. Camera is in the greenhouse right now doing some time lapse on some orchids. They seem to only want to bloom and open when the camera isn't looking.
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