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.
