Shop talk - help me decide how to attach the top

[TEK]

Hi

I’m having a hard time deciding how to attach the legs to the top of my planned split top roubo workbench.
Please help me decide by woting for an option.

Option 1: a simple blind tenon joint from the legs and up intonthe table top. Using drawboring to ensure a tight fit:



Option 2: the traditional roubo joint:

[ergo]

Option 2 looks cooler but in practical aspects the Option 1 is probably what I'd go with. Planing and smoothing the end grain parts will probably differ a lot from finishing the rest of the worktop and would be an extra hassle with bit of extra danger of something going bit wrong.

[Steve Manning]

I went with draw-boring when I built mine .... pulled things together nicely.

[TEK]

My main considerations are:
- will the roubo through tenon make a sturdier connections between the legs and the top?
- the roubo through tenon looks damn cool
- the roubo through tenon is a heck of a lot more work, and -I presume- harder to get right
- will the roubo through tenon give some advantages for the leg vice - as it will clamp directly to the leg and not having the bench inbetween as with a blind tenon
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[Steve Manning]

My main considerations are:

- will the roubo through tenon make a sturdier connections between the legs and the top? Only if done right with a perfect fit. Though the drawbore is very solid.

- the roubo through tenon looks damn cool. Agree.

- the roubo through tenon is a heck of a lot more work, and -I presume- harder to get right. Very much so.

- will the roubo through tenon give some advantages for the leg vice - as it will clamp directly to the leg and not having the bench inbetween as with a blind tenon. None if you make the legs flush with the top face in both versions.

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