On Monday, May 26, 2014 11:26:35 AM UTC-5, Sonny wrote:
On Monday, May 26, 2014 10:37:04 AM UTC-5, Michael wrote:



Did you make that draw knife chair? It looks really good.



Shaving horse. Yes, thanks. I had always wanted to make a shaving horse, by hand, and its lumber is from the same walnut trees we had cleared on the farm, where we torn down that old cypress house and cleared the surrounding area. The trestle table lumber and root ball slabs are from one tree and the shaving horse lumber is from the other (mostly firewood and turning blanks) tree. There are still some scraps, trunk pieces and the root ball, of the "firewood" tree, out there, and I'm still picking and choosing through some of that, for other possible projects and turning blanks.



The shaving horse: Hand splitting the log, for the seat, was a tough job.. The log didn't want to split. It was from a limb of the tree, not from the trunk. Hand planing was okay, but again, it was labor intense, for me.. I wouldn't want to do that too often. The rest of the project was much easier and more fun.



I doubt I'll ever use the shaving horse for anything significant. I just wanted to make and have one. The boys like to play with it, on it, at times, so it's a fun "toy" to mess with. Jonas and the boys are at the farm, now, and I've considered taking the bench, out there, for something more to do, in our idle time, among the other things we mess with. When the boys were cleaning the shop, we tinkered with making log legs (on the shaving horse. I showed them what it was and how it's worked) for a slabbed log bench. Ian claimed the bench for himself and wants it at the farm. I've been wanting to bring it to the farm and we can work on those legs, when convenient.



Sonny

Shaving horse. I guess I knew that. I want to make one, but I'm sure I would use it only once in a blue moon. I used to enjoy using my drawknife for projects that I now do via electricity (saves time and wood). You have to be careful with a drawknife though. That's what happened to my half-brother. ($1 to Roy Underhill.)