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Experienced woodworker Peter Wood shows how to make a shave horse—a versatile vice for woodworking enthusiasts who want precision and comfort.
A shaving horse (shave horse, or shaving bench [1]) is a combination of vice and workbench, used for green woodworking. Typical usage of the shaving horse is to create a round profile along a square piece, such as for a chair leg or to prepare a workpiece for the pole lathe .
A shaving horse is a workbench, vise, and chair all rolled into one. It’s primarily used to work green wood with a drawknife, which cuts on the pull stroke, or a spokeshave, which you can push or pull.
We build a draw-bench—otherwise known as a shaving-horse or shave-horse—from green oak logs. A historic apparatus that ha...
By crossbreeding these two steeds I got a strong, simple-to-build shaving horse that adjusts easily for different-size workpieces and has a very powerful grip. It looks similar to traditional dumbhead-style horses, which grip the work with a block-shaped head rather than a clamping bar, but it offers increased holding power and better ergonomics.
A shaving horse is basically a foot-operated clamp. The lower jaw supports the workpiece while the upper jaw presses down on it in response to foot pressure. This is an ideal arrangement for working with spokeshaves and drawknives because the harder you pull with the tool, the more pressure you naturally exert with your feet to maintain your ...
The Roy Underhill - Shaving Horse build.This is a shaving horse I built based on the basic design from Roy Underhills book “The Woodwright Shop”. I was also ...