How to Make an Andre Roubo Roy Underhill Folding Book Stand

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5 жыл бұрын

The Hinged bookstand is a project that has been around for hundreds of years. it was first written about by Andre Roubo, but in modern times it was popularised by Roy Underhill in the WoodWright shop. it is a treat project for beginners as there are so many skills to learn in making it. Form resawing, and chisel work to fret sawing and carving. Give this one a try and see just how your skills increase ad you make it.
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@laurencegoedar462 5 жыл бұрын

Dont no why but i like this format way more than the other. Thanks for putting up another challenge James! The idea for a chair is very tempting...

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

You and me both. the other does better on KZfaq but I enjoy this more.

@mariaz3711 2 жыл бұрын

I have one in my house and I've often wondered how it's made because to me looked like one piece. I'm so happy that I've come across your video. We use it as a Qur'an stand. It's in every Muslim home and all around the world.

@kenstewart687 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent build. I applaud your patience with hand tools. At the point you opened it up I said, “What step did I miss in the video.l

@edwardwung1754 2 жыл бұрын

That’s so amazing. I came across your videos for the first time today I think I am really going to start trying hand tools now. Thank you for the inspiration.

@michaelgreen429 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the work you do with your channels. I've been learning a lot. I'm just finishing my own attempt at the folding bookstand using a 1" x 12" piece of red oak. Playing your videos in the background have been great way to keep my spirits up while doing all the re-sawing with a 16in panel saw. Thank you!

@WoodByWrightHowTo 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a fun time

@jonnybooks9337 5 жыл бұрын

if you can't tell by my screen name...this project is RIGHT up my alley! diggin' it & can't wait to give it a shot myself.

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

Nice man. looking forward to seeing it!

@arponto 4 жыл бұрын

Its a beautiful doll chair, my first attempt at this has been pulled out of the junk pile and it is going to be repurposed as a doll chair for my granddaughter. With some crafty skills from grandma, it will be a great doll chair.

@BinManSays87 2 жыл бұрын

That's pretty cool I've been wanting a cast iron book stand for the kitchen but it'd take up more room than I have so I might have to give this a bash

@josemanuelmayagoitia1177 5 жыл бұрын

Que bonito proyecto. Gracias. Saludos desde Chihuahua, México.

@ryanallthewiser 5 жыл бұрын

That is an incredible project! I’m going to have to do this. Thanks James!!!

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

lots of fun!

@markgoode4109 3 жыл бұрын

This turned out very well; I love the design. This is definitely going to be my next project. Thanks for sharing, and as ever, best wishes.

@mikeuk1954 5 жыл бұрын

Watched this on both channels. Fascinating.

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mike.

@hassanal-mosawi6049 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing that, well done.

@joshfroze9255 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice!! So cool! I just watched Roy Underhill and Stumpy Nubbs where Roy gave his Stupyness one of these book holders!! I've just ordered my first woodworking books as a beginner and this is a project I definitely want to make as my wife wants to write a book herself!! I just wanted to say I love your channel and I will be getting one of your card scrappers!! I also want to use mostly hand tools because I have neighbors and do not want to make too much noise!! Lol Peace!!

@SPLENDORISTA 4 жыл бұрын

Love the old tools

@David_Flournoy 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent presentation. Beautiful piece of work. Thank you.

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. That means a lot!

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. That means a lot

@MamikeMamike-mw8zc 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful of you

@ziadfawzi 4 жыл бұрын

Nice work. Thank you

@FredMcIntyre 5 жыл бұрын

Nice work James! 👍🏻👊🏻

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Fred!

@michaels.8663 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful doll chair!

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

Lol yup.

@weldabar 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for a great video and great project. I enjoyed this format more.

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks me to. I like this second channel so that I can keep them!

@anigeorge4204 4 жыл бұрын

weldabar James കലക്കിട്ടോ

@stevebettany8778 4 жыл бұрын

I made this from red oak and left the knife marks so some clever chap decided that was where it was all glued together. Oh well. Great project thank you.

@WoodByWrightHowTo 4 жыл бұрын

Lol sounds about right.

@travisreese7229 5 жыл бұрын

I'm inspired. I also prefer this channel since my first draw to you was the learning.

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Travis. I much prefer this format. I just wish most of youtube did too. But I will keep making it.

@travisreese7229 5 жыл бұрын

@@WoodByWrightHowTo James, I am totally following the plan. Do what you must to keep this channel alive and bring the good word on hand tools to the masses. If the question is WBW 1 or WBW 2 thr answer from me is yes. I know it is more work but I appreciate it.

@kakablee 4 жыл бұрын

No machine is heartwarming

@maxdecphoenix 3 жыл бұрын

ever thought to make a bed tray with this design? Bit longer, and with two hinges. might be a fun project. out of my skill range for now though

@espvp95 4 жыл бұрын

It would be cool to have talks with other woodworkers.

@belabedelabed4931 2 жыл бұрын

شكرا لك على هذا الله يعطيك ما تتمنى

@mattf9096 5 жыл бұрын

This kind of thing really impresses me personally. I love the whole idea of moving parts without any fasteners or metal. Could you possibly expand on this technique and make a cabinet where the face and doors are from a single piece? Im not sure if that would be possible but it would be very impressive if you could.

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Matt. I have seen that done before, fut it is not a strong joint as there is no cross grain strength at the kuckel.

@erkeltree 5 жыл бұрын

I think if you research it you will find that the folding bench/ book holder originated in the orient. My great grandfather brought one back from China in the early 1900's that was an antique, many hundreds of years old. It was very intricately carved and made from an extremely hard reddish hard wood from somewhere over there. Not to take anything away from Roubo. It is a great project. There is also one I saw that's a 4 piece stool that had3 separate hinges..

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

they have been spawned several times around the world. there are versions of it in Egypt. Roubo is just the one that documented it, and many of the things in his book bear his name as he was the first to document it in western culture.

@simjeeu 2 жыл бұрын

LOL that darkish-brown bookstand at the beginning of your video - you will find that exact one in almost any middle eastern/south Asian shop you go into in America. And you’ll find it in literally every mosque in America. It’s the classic little stand for putting the Quran on when you’re reading it or even just to hold it. What an intersection of worlds seeing it pop up in your video!

@susanjara9288 4 ай бұрын

I made one of these

@RichardMerrill3Hawk 3 жыл бұрын

Made me buy your card scraper -- I've been using mild steel, looking forward to the real thing. Roubo was 18th century, 1700s. It's confusing. My son, who loves 18th century France, schooled me!

@WoodByWrightHowTo 3 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to seeing what you make with it. I'll get in the mailbox today.

@jasonbailey9139 5 жыл бұрын

Cool adirondack chair for your daughter’s dolls. That’s actually what I thought you were making from the thumbnail.

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

LOL yup. no one uses book stands any more!

@jonnybooks9337 5 жыл бұрын

@@WoodByWrightHowTo what's this book thing you speak of?!?!

@brucewelty7684 5 жыл бұрын

neat little project! My wife and I look "beyond" the obvious (in this case the little stand) and observe background items. TWO so far (5:05) have intrigued us. The first was your rip stand and the second is the coping saw stand. Do you have videos showing the creation of those 2 items?

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

thanks. the Saw bench I have a vide here. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rbZijLx8rt6uaWQ.html and I have one for the birds mouth here. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gc6apdKF27Stm6c.html hope that helps!

@erkeltree 5 жыл бұрын

I see you have researched. Education is the best.

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

So true.

@justincourts8296 5 жыл бұрын

After drilling the holes for the hinge. Why not just cut the lines with the coping/fret saw?

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

I would have to make the holes bigger to get that blade in there. I could use a jewelers saw, but where is the fun in that. and it would probably take longer.

@justincourts8296 5 жыл бұрын

@@WoodByWrightHowTo ah see thank you for answering my questions.

@ryanallthewiser 5 жыл бұрын

What do call the v bench vise (large jewelers vise). I want to make one but can’t get a good look at yours. Any plans or pics you can share ?

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

it is a birds mouth. I do not have a video on it but it is fairly simple it is just a vertical and horizontal board joined with gussets and it clamps in the bench vice to bring the cutting surface up to about shoulder height.

@ryanallthewiser 5 жыл бұрын

Any way you can post a clear picture of the birds mouth?

@WoodByWright 5 жыл бұрын

@@ryanallthewiser I just put them up on the hivemind

@carbonitegamorrean8368 5 жыл бұрын

Ya have a Yankee driver ? A rotary burr and that would do stippling.

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

ha I have one. just never liked it, but that does sound like fun!

@DonsWoodies 5 жыл бұрын

LOL. A viking doll chair.

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

LOL yup!

@MaliytaSkuratoV 3 жыл бұрын

Сильно! Удачи по жизни!

@WoodByWrightHowTo 3 жыл бұрын

Спасибо. Я сделаю это!

@MaliytaSkuratoV 3 жыл бұрын

@@WoodByWrightHowTo Руки золотые, у тебя.

@hassanmian8987 4 жыл бұрын

Hi...can you please do a detail build of your Roubo saw. There is no good video

@WoodByWrightHowTo 4 жыл бұрын

I have two videos on that. here you are. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kJeWeLyU3bOdeZc.html and this was a second build I did later : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iamPm9FkuZ-loYE.html

@bryanfuchs8812 Жыл бұрын

Where can I hide my vape?

@stevebettany8778 5 жыл бұрын

This is frustrating I have several jobs on the go and now have to make at least one of these. The last build was a step box for our ageing cat who can now leap straight over it to get on her chair !

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

LOL sorry that is what I am here for

@bbrachman 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I am scared of resawing. Question: The warped one that you purchased, could you rehydrate it with steam and then set it flat with heavy weights while it dries out to straighten it? Not saying that you should, but could you 'unwarp' it if you wished?

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

theoreticly you might get some of it out, but it would take a LONG time and a LOT of weight. my guess for that would be around 200# and full boiling. but it might be worth the try. just have to set it up some ware so it can dry for a few months like that.

@aliasglilou7914 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing but why masonic signs

@WoodByWrightHowTo 4 жыл бұрын

Masonic signs? The carving at the end is a Celtic Trinity. Not sure if that's what you were referring to?

@aliasglilou7914 4 жыл бұрын

Wood By Wright How 2 And the wings on the smaller one ?

@sean9462 4 жыл бұрын

FYI: your daughter wins, I have a 5yr old so can relate. LOL

@keats182 2 жыл бұрын

Incidentally, if you google pad saw you should be able to find reproductions of the key hole saw.

@Christopher_Gibbons 4 жыл бұрын

Your daughter is correct. It is a chair. Roubo created the design based of a simplifed Chinese Lu Ban (Luban) folding stool.

@WoodByWrightHowTo 4 жыл бұрын

Sun might say that. However the design is much older from the middle East as a book stand. Some of them dating all the way back to 500 or 600 BC.

@YogeshKumar-fq2lf 4 жыл бұрын

Papar ka stande study ka

@beauxhargrove7722 5 жыл бұрын

Next you should try making a rihal, a type of book stand originally intended for the Quran, typically associated with Uzbekistan. I believe in you.

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

That is on my list. there are a lot of fun designs with those!

@deekshasakariya2004 4 жыл бұрын

It is tahvni jains use it

@clydedecker765 5 жыл бұрын

Ooo. Has she found your doll collection??? Rough ... She's old enough to see through your bluff ..and bluster...

@WoodByWrightHowTo 5 жыл бұрын

LOL thanks Clyde!

@ya00007 3 жыл бұрын

That old wobbly stand looks exactly like an Islamic stand for holding a quran. There everywhere in Pakistan and india.

@WoodByWrightHowTo 3 жыл бұрын

Right on.

@sultanansary5773 4 жыл бұрын

Sb theek h pr kaati kyou yr kon smjhaa h angreejo ko..no lik

@darekingel6282 4 жыл бұрын

that is for the book of quran

@WoodByWrightHowTo 4 жыл бұрын

There are many designs for that very purpose.

@darekingel6282 4 жыл бұрын

@@WoodByWrightHowTo yes brother thankes

@ginoasci2876 4 жыл бұрын

you talk way way way way way way way way way way way way too muuuuuch

@WoodByWrightHowTo 4 жыл бұрын

thank you. this is the channel where i talk through every step. I have a whole nother channel where I do the same project and do not talk at all. you may find you like that one more.