A gift for the eyes, those tools and sunlight. Thank you for this! I have been an admirer of shavehorses for some time now.

 

Sheer bliss. One man and his hand tools under a warm sun working with nature to the sounds of nature. It doesn't get any better Mads. Looking forward to the next part.

 

Good looking and usefull shaving horse. They were used to make all kinds of stuff over on this side of the pond too. I remember seeing them in use when I was a little kid and my grandfather would take me places with him.

 

Looks like your making good progress. I want to build something smaller to shave spoons… Still working it out in my head…. Looks like your due a project to make a couple of saw benches or at least one to go with your horse.

 

is that burgers on the barbi? Cool project and it looks like you really enjoyed this one.

 

While reading and looking at your drawings, it came to me that it would be "cool" to make the horse's head with big teeth to hold down the work and also carve the bottom part with matching teeth as well! Just a thought? Like your post and drawings.

 

True woodworking poetry!
Thanks!!!

 

great work Mads and thanks for the drawings and pictures

now to part two for me

Dennis

 

That's a fine horse Mads. I know from my chevalet build the feeling of linkage with the past that fills you as you work on this.

On another matter, every time my espresso maker malfunctions I just take it apart and put it back together. I never find anything wrong and it always returns eagerly to service. I suspect they just have a natural need for attention…...........like the rest of us.

 

It's always wonderful to see your mind and your hands at work.

I will be building a shaving horse next year. I hope My steed is a valiant as yours.

Happy shavings from across the globe.

 

Ah, the Rancilio Silvia. Mine is on the fritz, too. It must be an epidemic!

 

Nice horse. Thanks for sharing.

 

way to go Mads

 

Mads, I like this one; I'm just gonna go ahead and make it a favorite - thanks.

 

That's a cool horse, I like the head salvaged from the forest.
Here's a picture of a Royal woodworker using a horse.
http://bit.ly/oFa1iL

 

Great project, description and blog Mads. I'm a few weeks away from building my own shaving horse, something I've been meaning to do for a few years. Need to power up the chainsaw and slab some boards of elm from some of the dead trees in storage.

I've favored this, as you may have some solutions to problems I don't know of yet.

Thanks for posting.

 

I don't bother favorite'ing Mad's projects anymore, I just know it's all of them. When I run into an issue, I go find the Mad's project that I think will have a solution.

 

Enjoyed the read and following along on this build… Good stuff….

 

Ok, you've inspired me. A duck headed shaving horse is now in my future. Thanks for the good ideas. And making it multipurpose by adding the holdfast holes and saw bench variations, the sawdust muses must have been whispering to you in your sleep.

 

Thanks to you I'm trying to figure out a spoon horse now….lol Something to attach to my carving bench. I'm not sure I want to commit to building full shave horse at this time…

 

Hey Mafe, Thanks for the comment on "my" shave horse and I read and studied this "blog" of yours before I did mine. Thanks again…...J

 

Ahhh, thank you, I was thinking you could have pleasure from the info before you start the next one.

And thank you all for the comments, I do not know why I never came back to comment here, but now I do.
i think this one was one of my favorite projects since I started this woodworking travel.
Big size timber, vintage tools, summer, garden, smell of wood and nature and ofcourse BBQ.
Best thoughts,
Mads

 

One thing, Paul. The way I learned that old adage about the bird and the worm goes a little differently.

The early bird catches the worm; which only goes to show the worm should have stayed in bed longer.

As for the shaving horse, I can just imagine the time spent communing with Nature, and with the wood. What a functional, and beautiful, piece of work!

 

Thank yo a lot.
You just took me down memory lane.
&
Ha ha ha, big smile here. - I like to sleep late. ;-)

It was the first tool, that moved into my workshop, back in 2012.

It's become a signature for the workshop, a basket of flowers and the shaving horse, when I meet people from the area, they often say; ahhh it's the place with the beautiful bench and the flowers.

Winter.

Summer with my Vespa.

Many meals, beers and coffees have been enjoyed there.

Most of the time, I look from inside and some days the view is better than other.
Here my dream car had parked in front of my workshop one day.

But of all times, this is my favorite image of it, to old people took a break on it and I was lucky to be there.

 

Today at the workshop, little Sonja came by with her mother (they live in the building), to borrow the shaving horse for a short break. Sonja come every day and sit at it, to see if I'm there and sometimes have a chat or an ice cream.
That shaving horse could tell many stories, if it could talk. <3