The completed shaving horse. I had a large black walnut fall in my yard, so I wanted to create some spoons from the Greenwood. I needed a shaving horse to hold the limbs for the carving work, hence this project. In a nutshell, you site on one side and push against the bottom bar to hold the work piece. The top where the work piece goes has a sheet of leather to keep the wood from moving around.
  • Here's the complete project.
  • Holes are drilled to fit the adjustable arms.
  • A view of the base in assembly.
  • The block is used as a wedge.
  • Each leg has a recessed mortise to fit the cross bar.
  • Here's what the underside of a leg looks like, attached.
  • A finished leg.
  • The mortise set-up.
  • Each leg, assembled.
  • Cutting the cheeks.
  • The hardest part was probably getting the feet angle correct.
  • Planing with the #7.
  • Preparing the stock.
  • A lot of sawing...
  • The start point.