Jim Tolpin's Split Top Roubo

It is fun to see other people using the split bench top since Dean and I explored it initially back in December of 2008. Bob Lang adapted aspects of it onto his bench and Jameel from Benchcrafted has really ran with it. Here is Jim Tolpin's version. (Photo from Benchcrafted site.)

here is the split in use on the Nicholson

and the completed bench

You can read more about the bench at http://schoolofwood.com/node/26 Here is a URL to Chris Schwarz's blog about my split top bench http://blog.woodworking-magazine.com/…rkbench.aspx