Building Roubo workbench, you can only have one…Jointer or planer ?

[jeff vanek]

Looking to build a Roubo, if you could only have one of these power tools (besides a table saw)
what would it be, a jointer or Planer?

[Christopher Charles]

Planer for sure. I built mine with a 6”jointer and lunchbox planer. The jointer was handy but the planer was indispensable.

[Rich Engelhardt]

Hands down the planer.

[Jim Becker]

Planer because you need a planer if you add a jointer. The latter only flattens and straightens. It does not thickness.

[Scott Winners]

Planer. Jointing the edges of 2x4 stock isn't so bad with a Bailey number 4, a breeze with a number 6 and an opportunity for joy with a #8.

[Tom Trees]

I think you have your answer, just incase you don't like the sound of that...
A good bandsaw if you don't have an extractor for the thickness planer, as the Roubo is a hand planers bench.
That's what I would want anyways :)

Good luck with the bench build
Tom

[Jacob Mac]

Depending on the boards, you might be able to get away with simple skip planing.

If not, a planer sled will definitely get you there.

Planer all day

[Richard Coers]

Planer. Jointing the edges of 2x4 stock isn't so bad with a Bailey number 4, a breeze with a number 6 and an opportunity for joy with a #8.
I thought Roubo benches were made of much heavier stock than 2x4.

[Richard Coers]

In my opinion, there is no option of only one. If you intend to be a serious woodworker, you need both for real truing of stock. But, I was trained old school. You know, before there were people telling me to subscribe so I can see some furniture made of torched 2x4s.

[Scott Winners]

In my opinion, there is no option of only one. If you intend to be a serious woodworker, you need both for real truing of stock.

And a dust collector. I got the DC first knowing the planer was coming, but when my own first board came out of my new planer, I knew. The cutterhead was still spinning down in the planer and I was trying to figure out how to shoe horn a jointer in.

[Tom Bender]

In my opinion, there is no option of only one. If you intend to be a serious woodworker, you need both for real truing of stock. But, I was trained old school. You know, before there were people telling me to subscribe so I can see some furniture made of torched 2x4s.

Um,,,there were serious woodworkers before jointers.

[Wojciech Tryc]

Um,,,there were serious woodworkers before jointers.
Haha, I love your reply