Roubo Workbench Class at Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking

[JustinScottDeVico]

I got to take the tansu jejewelry box with Mike pekovich last spring. It was a blast that place is awesome...check out Corey s catsup and mustard for dinner, great burgers and beer. And their breakfast place pastrami on wry.

[CStanford]

Did I read this correctly?  ~$5,000 for this class?  P.T. Barnum would be delighted.

[AstroDave]

Did I read this correctly?  ~$5,000 for this class?  P.T. Barnum would be delighted.

No it's this: from their website...

 

Things you will learn in this class:

• The core essentials of workbench design.

• How to process large timbers, from rough stock to firmly joined.

• Drawboring, the core technique in bench construction (and timber framing).

• How to cut and fit huge through-tenons with a jigsaw and a chisel.

• Strategic placement of holes for dogs and holdfasts.

• Flattening a workbench top.

• Finishing a top – from micro-surfaces to film finishes.

• Installing a leg vise and quick-release tail vise.

Tuition: $795.00 (plus materials $775.00)

Section 081015A: Monday – Friday, August 10 – 14, 9:00am – 5:00pm

[CStanford]

Not a bad price at all.

[CessnaPilotBarry]

I got to take the tansu jejewelry box with Mike pekovich last spring. It was a blast that place is awesome...check out Corey s catsup and mustard for dinner, great burgers and beer. And their breakfast place pastrami on wry.

 

Not to mention, Mike is a gifted instructor!

[CessnaPilotBarry]

Did I read this correctly?

 

 

You did not...   ;^)

[Tpt life]

Its all relative.  For $4800, If I had my choice between 5 days in a shop with Schwartz, and I go home with a Roubo

 

vs.

 

5 days in Punta Cana, and I go home with a sunburn.

 

I'd take the Roubo class.

 

That's a much better vacation....plus I'd still drink heavily in the evening

 

EDIT:  Plus working with 24/4 material...that's pretty darn cool.

 

EDIT EDIT: 

"The event is limited to 16 participants. 

Update 9/2: We've got 16 participants. Anyone who contacts us now will be put on the waitlist in case someone can't make it. "

 

Dammit!

  

$4800 is a week at the Grand Floridian and all of Disney. I'd choose Disney in a second.

The Roubo will come in time. Larger shop first though.

  

I thought I lost my mind for spending two grand on mine.   FIVE grand?  Good Lord.

The confusion was floating around.

[CessnaPilotBarry]

    

The confusion was floating around.

 

It's not difficult to verify...

 

http://www.schoolofwoodworking.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=532

[Cochese]

As stated, the $4800 was with French Oak and BC hardware.

[matthew-s]

I'd LOVE to do the CVSW class. I just can't justify using one week of the little vacation I have to do this and be away from the family.

Maybe someday. Or I just build on the installment plan over many months.

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[CessnaPilotBarry]

As stated, the $4800 was with French Oak and BC hardware.

 

 

Where?  Not at CVSW...

[Cochese]

Where?  Not at CVSW...

It was in a link posted, another Shwarz class near Vinny and I.

[EdG]

Wonder how the folks attending this class will get their finished workbenches home. By the looks of the joinery the top doesn't appear as if it could be removed. I'd love to attend but with no truck and a cellar workshop wouldn't know to get the bench home and into the cellar

[CStanford]

The definitive "modern" Roubo is still the Tarule bench from the Scott Landis workbench book.  Tarule's top was removeable.  Everything you'd need to build one of these style benches is in that article.  Still not the best bench (in its pure form) for making furniture, but that's peeing into a stiff breeze at this point.

 

Bob Tarule was a house-joiner and timber framer, fwiw.

[G S Haydon]

Excellent Charles! Read more on google books https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cjAnhBR2kLAC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=Rob+Tarule+workbench+scott+landis&source=bl&ots=am0kMzoP4v&sig=hwObm9-MjiGHedNzWWz4uqefMR0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=f3rFVNTXAon6UMWAg5AH&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Rob%20Tarule%20workbench%20scott%20landis&f=falsewell worth a look as it has a really good write up and good images.