Roubo Leg Vise

The split top roubo is constructed with massive components.

Roubo leg vise. These benches wont rack when hand planing and with the bench tipping the scale at over 300 pounds sliding on the floor if any will be minimal. Additional details parts tools used. Woodworking tools home workbenches hardware roubo workbench hardware and supplies. For working edges faces and ends.

Build a leg vise for your workbench with an inexpensive vise screw and linear shaft and bearing. The glide leg vise excells at working the edges of boards. Displaying products 1 11 of 11 results. The following links will take you to the cad files for the roubo bench which are in the vectorworks file format.

Plaese pay attention to this matter when installing the hardware. Elements found in a typical roubo style bench with a split top wagon vise and leg vise became my objective. The split top roubo is widely used by professional furnituremakers teachers and schools as well as amateur woodworkers. Roubo workbench hardware and supplies.

A 30mm bearing and shaft probably would have eliminated most of it or possibly a second bearing on the rear of the leg but with the 20mm ones i used i decided to try jay batess solution which was to use a wedge along the bottom of the chop. Although this made the motion of the vise very smooth there was still a little racking when clamping work pieces down hard in the vise. Roubo workbench leg vise alternative linear bearings article february 25 2013 ever since building my own split top roubo workbench i have been interested in the clever ideas people come up with in terms of hardware alternatives. Solutions for the roubo workbench benchcrafteds complete set of plans for a roubo split top workbench full set of plans only 2000 plans plus full hardware package starting at 69600.

Beginning in the 19th century vocational schools and commercial shops in france and its colonies were outfitted with roubos famous plate 11 style bench but featuring metallic leg vise hardware instead of the wooden screws and forged fittings of plate 11. The spindle diameter of the leg vise changed from 1 14 inch to 1 inch. I wanted to add a leg vise to my work bench but didnt want to spend 300 on it so i built one out of scrap wood and a scaffold leveling screw cost me around 25 for the whole project.