Another online source for Roubo *LINK*

Re: Another online source for Roubo

Michael Recchione

>Chris,

Were you able to get much out of your copies? I'd imagine the pictures are nice, but deciphering the several-hundred year old French might be difficult (at least for me). Does it work without the text? I'd love to see an English translation. Or even better, if someone could translate it into American... :-)

Adam???

Being that I'm from Arkansas....

Christopher Schwarz

>....I actually would like to see Roubo translated into Ancient Redneck.

The reason for my post is to merely follow up with some people who were looking for the books earlier. Not endorsing their purchase.

I have three of the volumes and enjoy looking the plates immensely over a beer. There's a lot there to be learned from gazing at the details. What's frustrating is that there are a lot more words that don't mean diddly to this boy with only two years of high school French. We've got a scholar working on translating one of the sections now on the so-called "German" workbench. She's an academic, so I don't know how soon we'll get it.

Is it an essential part of a hand-tool library? Probably not in this form, but they are disappearing from the market it seems. So I'm trying to snatch them up before they become like "Hammer: The King of Tools" or PTAMPIA Vol. 1.

Kinda lost, rare and you know the rest.

Chris

Re: online (as in readable!) source for Diderot

paul womack

>http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/encyc/searchform.html

BugBear

Hmmm *LINK*

Christopher Schwarz

>I've never been able to access it as I'm not a university or school.

Are logins available for individuals?


Subscription information

Hmmm...

Rob Lee

>We have 50 copies of PTAMPIA I .....

Trade ya....

Re: Hmmm *LINK*

Alice Frampton, UK

>Well going that route I can't access it either, but using the bookmarks I have (I think from The Porch?) I can get to individual pages okay. Try the link below; at the very least you can go backwards and forwards through it an article at a time.

Cheers, Alf


�B�NISTERIE - MARQUETERIE

Re: Hmmm...

Christopher Schwarz

>I've got something to trade....

cms

Re: Another online source for Roubo

Bjenk Ellefsen

>One of my project for this year was to start translating Roubo. I may be a viking descendant by I`m a french speaking one.

The only problem is that I will not be able to start working on it for a few months. I am in the process of moving to Australia for a year and our son will be born in march.

I will put a blog up before I leave and I will probably post my translation on it progressively. It all depends on how much free time I will get. Maybe somebody will have done it before I even start.

what are you people talking about?

bill tindall

>Or maybe if you have to ask, you probably aren't interested.

In defense of Roubo

Frank D. in Montreal

>Just kidding, he doesn't need me! But I find Roubo fascinating reading. His text isn't only technical. He talks about working conditions, reasons to do good work (workmanship), why people do shabby work, how styles and fads affect joiners, the effects of the market on the "industry" of joinery, and lots more interresting stuff! I also read some comments that are evidently based on the pictures and not the text.

Maybe I'll help Bjenk translate, eh Bjenk?

Re: In defense of Roubo

Bjenk Ellefsen

>Absolutely Frank! Lets talk about it.

Many thanks! Mine are on the way...

James Watriss

>I had french in High school, and some in college. Enough that I can remember, years later, enough to have written what was apparently a legible letter to the last place I found that had it. It'll be a struggle to push through this, I'm sure, but I think it'll be worth it. I'm becoming quite a geek these days, and trying to soak up as much knowledge as I can.

All right, I'll bite

Doug Littlejohn

>what is "PTAMPIA" ?

Sherwood

Interesting,

Doug Littlejohn

>in figure 70 on plate 9, I believe that is the Roubo bench or at least is sure looks like it. What are items E and F?? located at the left rear of the bench. Everything elese I can ID but I don't see what they are?

Sherwood

Re: All right, I'll bite

Bjenk Ellefsen

>Doug, I believe PTMPIA refers to the 2 books by Roger Smith : Patented Transitional & Metallic Planes In America.

Re: Interesting,

Dean J in MN

>Tool tray and some chisels.....

" E a small board retaining the tools, F them or - tils "

-Dean