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31st March 2018, 09:14 AM #1GOLD MEMBER
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Shave Horse
Hi guys,
I mentioned I started knocking up a Shave Horse a couple of weeks ago. Finished it off yesterday. First use will be to carve some pegs for a timber frame and then hopefully make some windsor chairs. Just need to wait for my drawknife to arrive.
I copied the design from an article by Tim Manning in Finewoodworking. The utilitarian design, while not as pretty as some others, is modular and allows adjustment and easy removal of the seat, clamp height, clamp assembly, foot pedal etc, which also makes it convenient to pack down for storage. Also thinking of making a second main frame and using them as a pair of low saw horses for the timber frame build.
Pretty straightforward, quick build.
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Hope everyone has a great Easter weekend! Hopefully I get time to crack on with another project!
Cheers, Dom
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31st March 2018, 02:58 PM #2China
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That's a good good looking piece of kit I have seen many much more rustic examples, that will end up a heirloom
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4th April 2018, 11:02 PM #3Senior Member
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This is the flashiest shave horse that I have ever seen. There does not seem to be anything that is not adjustable. Very well done. You may need to be a bit careful sitting with that shaping at the front of the seat.
I recently watched an old episode of a Roy Undersell show on youtube that had Brian Boggs as a guest and he had his shave horse that had a quick height change and some great hints on using concave spokeshaves on spindles on the shave horse and about grain orientation. You just have to get past how annoying Underhill can be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2CdKy80EWA This is the link if you wanted to have a look. All the best.
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8th April 2018, 07:59 PM #4
Dom
Several times of late I could have used a shaving horse and some time last century I did have one. Unfortunately it could be disassembled and used as a wide saw horse. So of course that is what happened and along the way it got sawn up .
I will give your design serious consideration. Unfortunately mine will have to be weather proof as out in the weather is where it will have to live: No more room in the shed. In fact I check my trouser belt every morning as I know that if I go up one hole access to the shed will not be possible and one hole down and I won't have to breathe in deeply to squeeze past the gear.
Regards
PaulBushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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14th April 2018, 10:29 PM #5
If you are still waiting for a draw knife do you want a lend of one?
I am learning, slowley.
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14th April 2018, 11:38 PM #6GOLD MEMBER
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19th April 2018, 09:29 PM #7Senior Member
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What China says
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10th March 2019, 08:32 PM #8
Another shave horse. Tim Manney head has a slightly different pin design as per his blog.
Other head is a Dawson Moore (@michigansloyd) spoon mule head.
Thanks to the gentleman woodworker for the hand and use of the shed to get it done
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Thanks to those who answered the post on cracked tenons some time ago.Cracked Tenon
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