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Hearing this was like obtaining a new level of understanding…. Clarity. Wow, looking forward to this rabbit hole

Love the intro cartoon!😊🤗

Great video!

Really enjoyed thank you

Just discovering your videos. I have been reading your books too. Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge for the world to enjoy, and me!

Currently reading though you books. Great stuff!

First time watching one of your videos. You got my sub before the intro was over. 😂

Wise tip indeed!

Lovely design. Off topic but what dimensions are your workshop? Thanks.

Awesome content thank you sir

Subbed based on the intro. Brilliant.

Very cool 😎

My grandmother taught me that you should rest your fingertips on a sink bottom, and your elbows should be level with the to of a mixing bowl. I spent a number of years looking for the right bowl to work with the countertop height that put the sink at the correct spot, but it makes the kitchen a pleasure.

This is a pretty solid little workbench. While once you figure out how it comes together, it is physically Easy to assemble ruclips.net/user/postUgkxyFZUPFEey-PuqsPMxqaykBhgA1LWxFHh by yourself. But the diagrams explaining the steps are really pretty bad. I could not get the handle pins in all the way despite multiple attempts, so I just used a screw I had on hand for the 2nd handle. I could not get the first pin in further or pull it back out. You are supposed to hammer it in, but I had no leverage and the handle is plastic and I did not want to risk breaking it. I will get a lot of use out of the bench because of the convenient size and height. It does fold up nicely for storage. They even explain how to fold it so you don't get pinched...that is important!

Easy and simple tips. Thank you

Very interesting.

many thanks for great explanation

Thank you for sharing your way of setups.

Thanks for the insight, I am new to woodworking and am looking to build my first workbench. I do all hand tools so this was very helpful.

I''m going to make a workbench with my wife (we want to make the furniture for our daughter) so this video is great for us. Just wanted to say thanks for sharing what you know. Cheers!

Had you ever checked your ratios to Fibonacci or Mandelbrot? That would be an interesting study…

Jim, if you get the chance we'd really appreciate several dozen more videos, thanks.

Awesome content in this video. Jam packed with so many takeaways for someone about to embark on a bench build. Thanks.

I can't believe how underrated your videos are...

Super informative!

As someone who doesn't have the space and finances to afford two benches and a large leg vice, I'm thinking that the solution would be to start with a bench optimised for planing, and to build a couple of mini-workholders that clamp on top for precision sawing and precision chisel work. For example the shooting board could be on a support that raises it 1 handspan above the bench. And with a Nicholson design, it would be fairly trivial to use a couple of boards and holdfasts to clamp fine work a couple of handspans above the bench. Is this a sensible way to go - and if so, can anyone point to practical examples?

Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge sir.

amazing

I've got Jim's tool box book which is fantastic. Also have "From Truth to Tools", another great book. I should be receiving by hand and eye and hound and eye very soon.

Omg subbed instantly bc of the intro alone 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Whenever I'm in Greece I marvel at the beautiful proportions of the Parthenon. I'm confident they built it based on a similar proportionality approach as you demonstrated with your benches, and not by the use of tape measures! Your Roubo bench exhibits classically elegant proportions also. I am about to embark on building my very first workbench, and I have just ordered both your books, "By Hand & Eye" and "By Hound & Eye" from Lost Art Press. Can't wait for them to arrive. In the meanwhile, I would like to ask you a technical question: From the video, your bench looks like it has a split-top, with the central gap occupied by a full-length stop. If so, did you have to modify the base to be a trestle design to support the two independent slabs? And how do you make sure that the two slabs don't expand-contract at different rates so as to make the entire top become mis-leveled over time?

So obvious yet I never thought or heard about this till now. Thxs for sharing.

THIS is the logic I've been searching for!

Interesting video! Curious, how wide is your chop for the front vise?

This is the first RUclips video I’ve seen with zero dislikes

You have no idea how useful these videos have been for me. Please consider doing short(s) videos or something like that just to help us understand elements from hand and eye or basic design principles. Can’t thank you enough for your work.

This is an awesome use of a wagon vise! Thanks for the tip

Most scientific. 👍

I'm reading "By Hand and Eye" and struggling with this as it relates to the tool tote. If we're stepping off the width of a chord as overall length of the tote (only about 10" for a scaled down version I want to try), what are you using to step off? The sketch in the book (fig 4.1.7) makes it look like dividers but based on the size of the project wouldn't you have to be opening the dividers to 24"? Even in my scaled down version I can't open my dividers 10 in. Do I just need a larger set of points or am I misunderstanding something about how this is accomplished? Love the book!

Nice video. I love your books too.

thank you for sharing, appreciated!

Wonderful.

This is mind-blowing.

What is so hard to tell us in number instead of those fingers thing ?

This is fantastic. Thank you! The way you break it down shows your years of experience & your skill.

As someone that is about to build my very first work bench, every tip I can find is a big help, thank you.

Thank you for explaining!!! Greetings from Germany!

You made this explanation so simple and I learned something new. Thank you!

Nicely done.

Love that bench, and love that wood-burning stove in the background!