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Shaving horse - PEP BB roundwood.straw.shavinghorse

BB round wood woodworking - straw badge
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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the straw badge in round wood woodworking.

This BB is the building of a shaving horse.

A shaving horse (Sometimes called a shavehorse or shaving bench) is a device used to clamp wood tightly in place against a pulling force while working with a spokeshave or draw knife. It allows for quick release and reclamp as you work the greenwood.  It is somewhere between a vice and a bench.






A single-Log version




Roy Underhill explaining the shave horse in the later half of the video.
https://www.pbs.org/video/woodwrights-shop-crotch-and-horse/

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- Your chunks of wood that you are starting with
- Progress about halfway through, with the hand tools you have decided to use for this
- List any power tools you used (Otis would love it if you only used hand tools)
- Final product
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D. Logan wrote:

A single-Log version




Does anybody know what the tool is he's using at the 3:40 mark to smooth off the split log a bit? Is that some kind of long-handled froe? Looks like fun.
 
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I did this one already, so I'm posting the pics I took at the time. Bonus shot of my son feeling like a boss.

I had to replace the original legs, I used wormy citrus wood because I had some on hand. Found out it was wormy when the leg snapped. Replaced with narrow bits of cedar.

I already have plans to modify the finished product. The legs don't splay enough in the back, so it's unsteady. I also want to replace the screws with tusk tenons in the front to make it more easily adjustable.
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D.W. Stratton wrote:Does anybody know what the tool is he's using at the 3:40 mark to smooth off the split log a bit?

 I think that's an adze.
 
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I made a shave horse today!  Not the prettiest and the next one will be much better.  

Hint:  Use a bigger diameter log that doesn't have any twist
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Awesome tool. I first learned about one from the “Little House on the Prairie” books.
 
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D.W. Stratton wrote:

D. Logan wrote:

A single-Log version




Does anybody know what the tool is he's using at the 3:40 mark to smooth off the split log a bit? Is that some kind of long-handled froe? Looks like fun.



It’s called an Adze.
 
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