shaving horse
shaving bench

In America it is known as a shaving horse.

The shaving horse was used by various trades, from farmer to basketmaker and wheelwright.

As the name "horse" suggests, the worker sits astride the shaving horse.

He shaved the spindles with a handmade shaving horse and wedged together most of the 100-plus joints.

Turn a rounders bat, candle stick or garden dibber a pole lathe and shaving horse.

A dumbhead is a clamping fixture on a foot operated shaving horse used to hold unseasoned ("green") wood.

Papa worked with very crude tools; a shaving horse, a draw knife, a crooked knife, a hammer and a piece of railroad track rail.

A shaving horse (shave horse, or shaving bench) is a combination of vice and workbench, used for green woodworking.

Traditionally trunnels and pegs were made by splitting bolts of wood with a froe and shaping them with a drawknife on a shaving horse.

Bill uses traditional hand tools, shaving horse and a foot operated pole lathe to produce hay rakes, pitch forks, trug baskets and besom brooms.

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.

The operator then reverses the piece in the shaving horse or vise and works from near centre to trim the "fatter" end to match the centre and just finished original "skinny" end.

Selleck descendants donated two ladder-back chairs, their ancestor's saw and razor-edge shaving knives, as well as his shaving horse, a teeter-totter-like contraption that was a combination chair and work surface.

The drawknife ideally is used when the operator is in a seated position astride a traditional shaving horse, which safely grips the working stock, and they can also use their legs for additional pulling power.

The shaving horse is used in combination with the drawknife or spokeshave to cut down green or seasoned wood, to accomplish jobs such as handling an ax; creating wooden rakes, hay forks, walking sticks, etc.

Because hand-split shingles were somewhat irregular along the split surface, it was necessary to dress or plane the shingles on a shaving horse with a drawknife or draw-shave to make them fit evenly on the roof.

Richard will teach you how to cleave the timber into billets and shape them on a shaving horse using a draw knife, progressing on to a pole lathe where you will turn all the components of your chair.

The ideal working stock has the grain of the wood running parallel to the shaving horse, and perpendicular to the blade of the drawknife, so that the drawknife shaves away the entire wood fibre and does not cut against it.

In addition to learning about woodcarving from his family growing up, Carpenter apprenticed for eight years with a master cabinetmaker to learn the art of traditional furniture-making, shaping felled trees into finely-crafted furniture using only primitive hand tools, such as the axe, adze, and shaving horse.

A shaving horse (shave horse, or shaving bench) is a combination of vice and workbench, used for green woodworking.