2nd workbench - this time a roubo with benchcrafted gear

Was always a little frustrated with my Holtzapfel bench.  I was frustrated with:

1. End vise didn't really work - not enough room
2. Split top - was always losing stuff through it
3. The doug fir slab for the bench couldn't be planed flat really - just tore out like crazy
4. Dog holes were drilled at a slant that made things difficult to clamp for planing
5. Metal dogs - hated even having to think of them

Built a soft maple roubo that took nearly all 200bdft of the soft maple that I bought.  Used all benchcrafted gear and the heck out of my Festool OF2200.  Gotta love the heft out of the machine, really upset that I dropped it off my work table...

Live edge slabs circular sawed down and picking the best material for the top and the show faces.

No knock down hardware - mortise and tenon, glued and pinned.

Tenon for the wagon vise chop.  Laminating this and jointing on the AD-741 was *easy*.  Must easier than when I had the ridgid 6" jointer for the Holtzapfel.  The slab would literally tip the jointer.

No split top meant different tenons then the benchcrafted design

Squaring up the end wasn't as easy as you would think.  Had to bust out the chisels after using the tracksaw.

Mostly finished bench including leftover sapele from the front door project as the leg vise chop.  Laminated cutoffs for bottom tray.  Flatting it was *easy*, the soft maple planes beautifully.

Condor tails really difficult to saw by hand especially when it came to marking the pins.

Custom round hickory dowel dogs.  Really nice.  Used Wood Owl bit to drill the holes using a jig.  Holes came out *really* clean with absolutely no tear out.  What a great tool.  Dowels a little big, had to chuck them up in the lathe and sand the day lights of them to get them to fit.

Left over cutoffs of maple went into making a sawbench

Finished sawbench.  Litterly just a little bit of BDFT leftover and turned into stickers and firewood