The Shaving Horse

Shaving Horse

The Shaving horse is still one of my favorite work stations,,, I have enjoyed countless hours working wood from this bench ,,, making spoons, legs, rungs, dowels, handles, and a flute,,, Working green wood in this manner is such a pleasure,,, Draw knife and spoke shave and knives,,, crafting green wood is quick, easy, quiet, and smells so good,,, It takes me very little time to fashion a spoon using the horse and the tools are simple,,, I can make a spoon without the horse though it is not nearly as fast and i enjoy the process using the horse as my extra hand,,, The sun on my back out side or in the winter, a fire crackling in the stove warming my back a coffee on, the stool beside, me as shavings pileing up around me, music on the box, life is sweet,,,The stool i made some years ago for the shop was the result of a design i found in a magazine of a three leg stool,,, The legs and rungs i made using the shaving horse was such fun much better then using a bench vise and so much quicker.
  Also the best part of all for me is USUALY the wood is FREE,,, I can salvage wood from the bush the beach the orchard the friends who save their trees and trimmings it's awesome,,, I scavenged the seat from left over 2x4's from a construction site and the legs from a cherry tree that was destined for the firewood pile,,, I also made a whack of spoons and spatulas and a couple of bowls from the rest of the tree,,, all the shavings made great fire starter for the shop stove,,, Yuppers totaly enjoy these projects,,,

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Three Leg Stool