If you squint that pile of wood is most of a portable shave horse. Right behind the pile is the current shavehorse that is not portable. The new one will rip off Jason Gallagher's take on Tim Manney's dead head horse. See below.
I have a couple of boards of Honey Locust that have been in the wood pile for several years to use for the rails and table (photo above). Wood for the other parts to be decided later.
Getting ready for four months, maybe as many as six months, living in the motorhome this coming summer. The old shavehorse was a PITA to transport and take apart, put back together, so much so I didn't use it much on last years trip to Oregon.
ken
Do the front and back legs fit between the blots holding the rails together? I still can't come up with a reason to make shave horse besides not having the room for one.
ReplyDeleteRalph,
ReplyDeleteThe front leg is a wedged tenon that fits between two blocks held in place by the bolts. The back leg is held in place by wedges, the bolts reinforces the tendon that holds the back leg.
If you make spindles by hand, chair legs, spoons, or anything than needs a drawknife or shavespoke to make or finish, a shave horse is much better than a bench with a vise. Besides it is a great pleasure to sit and take shavings, turning big hunks of wood into smaller hunks with little thought as to how to hold it.
ken
I have some Osage Orange that I snagged when some local trees were cut down. They are pretty small and gnarly. I didn't know that you could get boards like that out of it. It does seem like something that would be good for mallet heads or plane boxing.
ReplyDeleteThey were along a main road and dropped fruit on one too many Jaguars so they were removed.
You've been so quiet lately considering current events. I could tell you were still with us from your SMC posts. Glad you are back.
Steve,
ReplyDeleteOsage Orange is miserable to work, that is the reason it has been camping out for several years in the wood pile. You are correct, mallet heads and hammer handles are in its wheel house. I've made a couple of panels out of it but it wasn't worth the effort. I figure the rails for a shavehorse would be a near painless way to get it out of the wood pile.
The boss has me doing so much with the house and the motorhome I haven't had time for the shop for the last couple of weeks, the other stuff is so much relief I still haven't got my thoughts sorted out. Still a long way to go with 70 million out there but at least we outnumber them.
Thanks,
ken