I enjoyed your video. I made my shaving horse about twenty years ago and have used it a lot. As a matter of fact my back to legs have since broken off. I just place the stump that I rive and ax hew and trim with under the back at the seat end. Works great!
Love this video, Dan. Please grind away the steel that has mushroomed passed the edge of that splitting edge. From personal experience, they will break away and lodge in hands, arms, legs and eyes.
I'd even suggest to use wooden mauls for some of the wedge work to limit mushrooming. The wedges are less effective that way. My brother used a 16 lb sledge on one my dad had and that wedge was almost useless it was out of shape so bad.
Awesome! I have some rock hard old telephone poles in the yard and want to make a shave horse and a carving bench from them. Possibly a pole lathe too. Projects, projects...always another project waiting! 😃👍
Great vid. Love the hand tool tutorials. I made a few of these in the past. Started with four legs but found three work better and stand most anywhere. Two in back, one in front. Give the foot lever enough room up front. Just a suggestion.
Great build, Dan. Now if I can only find a source for a drawknife and spokeshave. Oh, and learn to sharpen them. I will have to show my wife your video so she knows what I mean by shavehorse.
May I suggest that you make the footplate about a foot longer. It would allow you to keep your legs in a much more comfortable position, as well as give you more pressure on the piece of wood that you are working on. It will also allow you to open and close the jaws easier and with more control. I used one of these for decades.
Had to comment in the middle. Dan ive been watching ya a long time now and gotta say that this vid is sofar the best you put on the "Tube"..the soundtrack just somehow fit.
Amazing ! Great video ! Might I suggest you grind off the ragged edges of your metal wedges. I was in a shop one time & the mechanic was pounding on a punch w/ragged edges and a piece flew off & became embedded in his cheek. Merry Xmas !!
DAN THIS VIDEO BROUGHT BACK FOND MEMORIES OF BACK WHEN I WAS IN MY PRIME. YOU SHOULD HAVE ADDED SOME VERBAGE OF HOW THIS WAS A NO SWEAT TASK. HA! IT TAKES VERY HARD WORK TO MAKE ONE USING OLD SCHOOL TOOLS . WHEN I BUILT MINE I EVEN HAD A FOOT ADZE AND A BROARD AXE TO SMOOTH THINGS OUT A BIT. I COMMEND YOU ON YOUR HARD WORK AND MAKING A EXCELLENT VIDEO.
Nice looking horse. I usually use a crotch to make the dumb head. A lot less work. I also do my best to do a 3 legged bench using another crotch for the legs. Like a giant slingshot with the "handle" fitted into the bench. I am probably not describing it well but anyone who has spent time watching The Woodright's Shop on PBS has probably seen the episodes that covers the genuine versions of the colonial shaving horses that go back to Germany.
That was very cool to see. I want to build one of these for my dad to use. Splitting that log into a more or less plank for the bench was really impressive. I didn't know it was possible to get a log to split that cleanly. Sure saves a lot of time with the hatchet or adze. Well done!
Good work so quickly to provide yourself with a working piece of equipment. I wasn't aware that you could split a green log that easily. Wouldn't a lot of poor woods people had wood wedges for their primary wedge but what wood would they have used? Now if only we could see back through t... what did our Forebears and Ancestors use to drive their equipment, make heat, seeing from above to locate land and layout a homestead, and to have grow houses. I just don't believe that they hadn't contemplated other technology and we're limited to what stories we have now. The stories vary so drastically from one area to the next and one publisher to the next certainly it proves they are liars complicit to inhibit us from the technology our ancestors and Forebears discovered/ rediscovered. If the Red Man indigenous had created sign language and smoke signals which is purely mind abstract thinking then certainly there are many missing physical technologies stolen from them and the White Man how to harness energies from the earth. Look how far technology went in the colonial period and how little of it is reported. Explain how the besslar wheel came into existence?! What if there are many stories that are selectively blocked-out and worse miscredited to lientists and their obfuscating, mystifying, obscuring, and murdering science with their inquisitors and md and dds doctors. I told people back in my first grade class the pyramids were machines not burials and they were not built by anyone who is their now and perhaps as old as the planet is because you can't date stone. The very word pyramid tells in itself that it is a maschine. Everyone of you who does hand work knows that no pyramid was built by hand that it is a complete lie. The few people putting out presentations showing the saw cuts and machining marks proves that a pyramid was built with equipment and is a maschine not a stupid funery mound. Don't believe their damned stories and reactivate your foresight and receiving abilities. It is aggravating to thinknon one side to hear what Nicholas Tesla, "I created nothing, my brain is a receiver", because it sure feels like no free will. But I guess that it doesn't mean we have to be limited to just some alpha mode hypnotized programmed slave as long as we learn how to not be overtaken by that mode or capacity. You must reactivate your consciousness ability to open the door for the Forebears and Ancestors to come back into the life plane who like me were murdered by the current cartel controllers to hide these truths and dumb us down plus rob us from the planet and Natural Order and force us into this toxic system game at a high price only suiting their benefit.
Love this video. Im an engineer and this is is beautiful. This is what our country was founded on.
Now this is what youtube is all about in my book. Watch people make things and proud of there accomplishments. Thumbs Up. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Superb shaving horse. Nicely build without industrial lumber.
Thanks, will attempt next week.
Heartfelt appreciation for creation and upload.
Again thanks,
from Cornwall.
(next to England.)
Your a remarkable guy! My son and I made an English style this fall so We know it’s harder then it looks to build one. Thank you.
Nice build. I did bookmark it for future referance. Happy Holidays to you, your family, Dan and everyone else who has been watching this video.
I enjoyed your video. I made my shaving horse about twenty years ago and have used it a lot. As a matter of fact my back to legs have since broken off. I just place the stump that I rive and ax hew and trim with under the back at the seat end. Works great!
Look at the cute little hatchet- love it.
Love this video, Dan. Please grind away the steel that has mushroomed passed the edge of that splitting edge. From personal experience, they will break away and lodge in hands, arms, legs and eyes.
Amen! I would have mentioned the same.
Yeah, had one sharp edge/flake just poke thru glove and at first it didn't register that my palm is bleeding.
I'd even suggest to use wooden mauls for some of the wedge work to limit mushrooming. The wedges are less effective that way. My brother used a 16 lb sledge on one my dad had and that wedge was almost useless it was out of shape so bad.
i got a nice scar on my belly precisely because of this.
True!
Fun fact after watching a few of you videos i started at your first video and am determined to watch all the way to presemt.
Very nice video Dan, thank you for sharing.
Love the video Dan, so relaxing watching the build, absolutely love the music! Really chilled out.
Simply beautiful
Nice job!
Great job nice !!
That was excellent. Very masterfully done! Thanks for taking the time to demonstrate this!
Now to finish that canoe paddle for this springs canoeing season. Fun project.
Great job! That looked like a ton of work
Very nice horse..beautiful legs. Good work
So much character. I love it
Great Build, Pap would be so proud of you
very well done !!!! besides the shave horse you got yourself alot of tinder for starting fires from all the shavings and off cuts from the project
So cool missed your videos
Great video, Dan!
Awesome! I have some rock hard old telephone poles in the yard and want to make a shave horse and a carving bench from them. Possibly a pole lathe too. Projects, projects...always another project waiting! 😃👍
Best one I have ever seen.!
Very cool. I am going to make one.
Awesome video. Wanted to make a shave horse for a long time. Great job
Thank you very much Sir 🎉
excellent work my friend. invaluable in the woods.
Great tutorial, Dan! Dick Proenneke is giving a thumbs up for sure!
Great job. Very helpful.
Great vid. Love the hand tool tutorials. I made a few of these in the past. Started with four legs but found three work better and stand most anywhere. Two in back, one in front. Give the foot lever enough room up front. Just a suggestion.
YES! now THAT is CoalCracker Bushcraft! Thank you Dan.
Well done
Awesome vid! Simple is always elegant. Thanks for video
Awesome video Dan! I want to do this too. Great build!
Nice Work Looks better than one u can buy in a store 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Great build, Dan. Now if I can only find a source for a drawknife and spokeshave. Oh, and learn to sharpen them. I will have to show my wife your video so she knows what I mean by shavehorse.
That's a great shave horse!
great job!
May I suggest that you make the footplate about a foot longer. It would allow you to keep your legs in a much more comfortable position, as well as give you more pressure on the piece of wood that you are working on. It will also allow you to open and close the jaws easier and with more control. I used one of these for decades.
Thank you.
Dude that kicks ass.
Great job ! Beautiful work
Fantastic video really enjoyed it thank you
Nice job . Good video.
This is awesome dude! Excellent craftmanship!
Awesome build brother and something to be proud of!
Nice video, thanks for sharing
Nice work
Excellent vid, good to see another Maine hunting shoe wearer
How many times do I have to come back and thumbs up this awesome video??
This is the third time !
UA-cam stop 🛑 being so lame
Good video, thanks. Job well done!
Cool video format with the music playing as you worked...I like it.
Had to comment in the middle.
Dan ive been watching ya a long time now and gotta say that this vid is sofar the best you put on the "Tube"..the soundtrack just somehow fit.
I’ve always wanted to try making one of these. I’ll need more tools haha
Top job....👍
KCB/ UK 🇬🇧
Awesome video
Once again another awsome video.
I really enjoyed this video, Dan!
Holy crap, Dan! I love all your videos, but this one is by far my favorite. Love the music and style of the video. Great one!!
Great job !
Great video Dan. Thanks and take care. Merry Christmas.
Amazing ! Great video ! Might I suggest you grind off the ragged edges of your metal wedges. I was in a shop one time & the mechanic was pounding on a punch w/ragged edges and a piece flew off & became embedded in his cheek. Merry Xmas !!
Maybe he ain't got grinder
Красавчик мужик всё в ручную изготовил
Good build Dan
As soon as I've made a froe I'm onto the maul and gluts then this 👍
Yo the mini axe is awesome!!!! Your work in All your videos is great, I'm glad I've found your channel.
Good video! Makes me want to make another bow!
great job, Thanks for sharing
Dan, that was a cool video and build. Season's Greetings to you and your family and Dan. Marry Christmas to every one!
Well done 👍🏻👍🏻. 🇺🇸😎
Cool video
Impressive as hell!!
Nicely done. I need to get a set of gouges.
Good build and great video. Thanks for posting it. Now I’m eyeballing an ideal tree on my back property line.
I was thinking about using my draw knife!
Merci pour ce moment, un réel plaisir a te regarder faire avec si peu de moyen. Reposant et instructif a la foi, bravo et merci encore.
Cool!!
Real handy for u!!
Dude, this is awesome...you 've got gold in your hands ;)
Exactly like Roy Underhill build for his book, the Woodwrights shop.
inspirational,thanks for sharing
excellent
Greetings, good video. Thanks for the share. pax,
DAN THIS VIDEO BROUGHT BACK FOND MEMORIES OF BACK WHEN I WAS IN MY PRIME. YOU SHOULD HAVE ADDED SOME VERBAGE OF HOW THIS WAS A NO SWEAT TASK. HA! IT TAKES VERY HARD WORK TO MAKE ONE USING OLD SCHOOL TOOLS . WHEN I BUILT MINE I EVEN HAD A FOOT ADZE AND A BROARD AXE TO SMOOTH THINGS OUT A BIT. I COMMEND YOU ON YOUR HARD WORK AND MAKING A EXCELLENT VIDEO.
Awesome job on the horse, loving these style vids 🐻👍🏼
3:56 music syncs to the work. That was awesome!
Excellent!
Great job with the shave horse Dan. 😊 Hope ya'll are enjoying the beautiful weather. It's been nice here in SW North Dakota too. ☀️🌬
muy pero ke muy practico. esto es para gente sin recursos como yo. lo voy a hacer.
Pretty snifty pal ! Yessir 🙂
I've looked at many videos on shaving horse, this by far the best. What type of tree was this?
Nice!
Nice looking horse. I usually use a crotch to make the dumb head. A lot less work. I also do my best to do a 3 legged bench using another crotch for the legs. Like a giant slingshot with the "handle" fitted into the bench. I am probably not describing it well but anyone who has spent time watching The Woodright's Shop on PBS has probably seen the episodes that covers the genuine versions of the colonial shaving horses that go back to Germany.
Nice one sir! Did the build take an entire day? Thanks for sharing . Merry Christmas !
Man, right on time!
That was very cool to see. I want to build one of these for my dad to use. Splitting that log into a more or less plank for the bench was really impressive. I didn't know it was possible to get a log to split that cleanly. Sure saves a lot of time with the hatchet or adze. Well done!
More videos like this one!
Wow brother! Amazing build sir. Great music choice too. Merry Christmas!
Good work so quickly to provide yourself with a working piece of equipment.
I wasn't aware that you could split a green log that easily.
Wouldn't a lot of poor woods people had wood wedges for their primary wedge but what wood would they have used?
Now if only we could see back through t... what did our Forebears and Ancestors use to drive their equipment, make heat, seeing from above to locate land and layout a homestead, and to have grow houses. I just don't believe that they hadn't contemplated other technology and we're limited to what stories we have now. The stories vary so drastically from one area to the next and one publisher to the next certainly it proves they are liars complicit to inhibit us from the technology our ancestors and Forebears discovered/ rediscovered.
If the Red Man indigenous had created sign language and smoke signals which is purely mind abstract thinking then certainly there are many missing physical technologies stolen from them and the White Man how to harness energies from the earth. Look how far technology went in the colonial period and how little of it is reported.
Explain how the besslar wheel came into existence?! What if there are many stories that are selectively blocked-out and worse miscredited to lientists and their obfuscating, mystifying, obscuring, and murdering science with their inquisitors and md and dds doctors.
I told people back in my first grade class the pyramids were machines not burials and they were not built by anyone who is their now and perhaps as old as the planet is because you can't date stone. The very word pyramid tells in itself that it is a maschine. Everyone of you who does hand work knows that no pyramid was built by hand that it is a complete lie. The few people putting out presentations showing the saw cuts and machining marks proves that a pyramid was built with equipment and is a maschine not a stupid funery mound. Don't believe their damned stories and reactivate your foresight and receiving abilities.
It is aggravating to thinknon one side to hear what Nicholas Tesla, "I created nothing, my brain is a receiver", because it sure feels like no free will. But I guess that it doesn't mean we have to be limited to just some alpha mode hypnotized programmed slave as long as we learn how to not be overtaken by that mode or capacity.
You must reactivate your consciousness ability to open the door for the Forebears and Ancestors to come back into the life plane who like me were murdered by the current cartel controllers to hide these truths and dumb us down plus rob us from the planet and Natural Order and force us into this toxic system game at a high price only suiting their benefit.