40 Fine Woodworking Shaving Horse Plans New

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Fine woodworking shaving horse plans. The first woodworking i ever did was on a shaving horse. This article includes woodworking plans and expert instruction for building a traditional shaving horse as described by kentucky chairmaker brian boggs. Swing arm the simple swing arm is a piece of stock with a single tenon on. Carriage bolts that hold everything together.

Here is a downloadable plan to build this shaving horse. This simple elegant shaving horse is a hybrid of two designs by two of tim manney s mentors curtis buchanan and carl swensson my 15 00 shaving horse august 3 2009. Green woodworking woodworking bench plans woodworking crafts woodworking shop wood carving tools wood tools easy wood projects into the woods. Feb 8 2015 interested in making your own shaving horse.

This is the horse that i built for fine woodworking in issue 262. Shaving horse pdf plan a shaving horse is an old woodworking tool used to hold a workpiece in a place while it is worked by a cutting tool such as spokeshave or drawknife. Our biweekly podcast allows editors authors and special guests to answer your woodworking questions and connect with the online woodworking community. The base comes from chairmaker curtis buchanan s horse and the clamping mechanism is a simplified version of carl swensson s.

Posted on may 2 2012 december 18. Push on the treadle with your foot to grip the stock. This full contact workbench is essentially a foot operated clamp designed to carefully grip a workpiece in a variety of orientations so it can be shaped with hand tools. Basically a giant vise the shaving horse grips the work between its head and body and is operated using a treadle while you are sitting down.

I drilled and countersunk 4 in. International orders are for digital plans as the cost of international shipping is three times the cost of. To match my existing shaving horse i added a bevel to the rails and front spacer block. Take off the pressure to release it.

That article is a useful but not necessary resource for building the shaving horse. While fine woodworking showed plans for the horse they didn t go into great detail about how to actually build the horse and a lot of detailed measurements weren t even given. Holes along the rails that accept the rod that the swing arm pivots on. The rails have eighteen 3 8 in.

So i just eyeballed where i thought edges should be and built the horse as close as possible to brian s. With practice and these tips from curtis buchanan using the shaving horse will become second nature.