http://lumberjocks.com/Groundwood/blog Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:14:37 GMT Oak a bust for Roubo http://lumberjocks.com/Groundwood/blog/30653 So, Roubo is the bench for me. Got the plan set, ordered Oak from Big Box Store in ORANGE. Special ordered rough cut 3×12 x 96, wait a week for the supposed delivery date and check on it. No show from the lumber company. They say it will be in tomorrow between 3-5pm. No calls to let me know if it was delivered or not. Receive a call the following day letting me know it is in. Got some down time during work so I go check out my gorgeous wood, only to find out they had solld me a giant pile of kindling. First timber has a crack down the whole length of the timber directly in the center
+1” deep. Same on the other other side of my timber only 1/2” depth whole length of timber. So being held together by maybe 1” of fibers between the crack. GREAT start.. Foot long checking in the lumber, seems no one inspects incoming special orders. Thayt was the better of the two, so I promptly got my money refunded and have decided to just do a first Roubo bench out of 2×4 whiteboard, laminated top style.

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