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Here are a few pictures of the Andre Roubo inspired French workbench I recently completed. It is strongly based on the plan from Christopher Schwarz's Workbench book and Jameel Abraham's bench. It's about 7' 5" long, 34" high, 24" deep and it probably weighs around 350 lbs. The top is 4" thick, the legs are about 5" square. It's made entirely from 8/4 white ash with the exception of the oak pegs. I turned the leg vise pin handle (my first turning) from an off-cut that had some nice curly figure. Of course the awesome leg vise and tail vise hardware are from Benchcrafted. For the finish it soaked up a whole quart of Watco Danish Oil Natural which really added some nice color. It was a lot of work to build but I really enjoyed the process and I have no doubt that it will outlast me.