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.
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!
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.
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! 😃👍
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 !!
How did you learn to do all this stuff like this? Did you take classes on it and read books as well or did you solely learn from your father/grandfather/uncles?
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. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks, will attempt next week.
Heartfelt appreciation for creation and upload.
Again thanks,
from Cornwall.
(next to England.)
Superb shaving horse. Nicely build without industrial lumber.
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.
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.
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!
Look at the cute little hatchet- love it.
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.
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
Love the video Dan, so relaxing watching the build, absolutely love the music! Really chilled out.
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!
Now to finish that canoe paddle for this springs canoeing season. Fun project.
That was excellent. Very masterfully done! Thanks for taking the time to demonstrate this!
YES! now THAT is CoalCracker Bushcraft! Thank you Dan.
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.
Great Build, Pap would be so proud of you
Nice Work Looks better than one u can buy in a store 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Simply beautiful
Great tutorial, Dan! Dick Proenneke is giving a thumbs up for sure!
excellent work my friend. invaluable in the woods.
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! 😃👍
Very nice video Dan, thank you for sharing.
Excellent vid, good to see another Maine hunting shoe wearer
So much character. I love 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.
How many times do I have to come back and thumbs up this awesome video??
This is the third time !
TH-cam stop 🛑 being so lame
Nice job!
Best one I have ever seen.!
This is awesome dude! Excellent craftmanship!
Great video, Dan!
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.
Awesome video. Wanted to make a shave horse for a long time. Great job
Very nice horse..beautiful legs. Good work
Great job! That looked like a ton of work
So cool missed your videos
Awesome vid! Simple is always elegant. Thanks for video
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!!
Awesome build brother and something to be proud of!
Well done
Cool video format with the music playing as you worked...I like it.
Dude that kicks ass.
That's a great shave horse!
Once again another awsome video.
3:56 music syncs to the work. That was awesome!
Thank you very much Sir 🎉
Great job nice !!
As soon as I've made a froe I'm onto the maul and gluts then this 👍
Awesome video Dan! I want to do this too. Great build!
Great job ! Beautiful work
Dude, this is awesome...you 've got gold in your hands ;)
I really enjoyed this video, Dan!
Very cool. I am going to make one.
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.
Dan, that was a cool video and build. Season's Greetings to you and your family and Dan. Marry Christmas to every one!
Yo the mini axe is awesome!!!! Your work in All your videos is great, I'm glad I've found your channel.
Top job....👍
KCB/ UK 🇬🇧
Great job. Very helpful.
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.
Exactly like Roy Underhill build for his book, the Woodwrights shop.
I’ve always wanted to try making one of these. I’ll need more tools haha
Great video Dan. Thanks and take care. Merry Christmas.
Fantastic video really enjoyed it thank you
Красавчик мужик всё в ручную изготовил
Nice job . Good video.
great job!
Awesome video
muy pero ke muy practico. esto es para gente sin recursos como yo. lo voy a hacer.
Nice work
Good video, thanks. Job well done!
Great job !
Well done 👍🏻👍🏻. 🇺🇸😎
Nicely done. I need to get a set of gouges.
6:55 TINY AXE! so cute :3
AYellowPepper I want one. Where on earth did he get that.
Good build Dan
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
Awesome job on the horse, loving these style vids 🐻👍🏼
Impressive as hell!!
Nice video, thanks for sharing
excellent
Interesting felling technique...I think traditionally the notch was chopped out and the backcut was sawn.
I need to re-haft and resharpen my adze...
great job, Thanks for sharing
Cool video
Pretty snifty pal ! Yessir 🙂
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. ☀️🌬
Good build and great video. Thanks for posting it. Now I’m eyeballing an ideal tree on my back property line.
Good video! Makes me want to make another bow!
Greetings, good video. Thanks for the share. pax,
I was thinking about using my draw knife!
inspirational,thanks for sharing
Excellent!
Cool!!
Real handy for u!!
Nice!
Damn, SIR that was perfect 👍🏻👍🏻
Wow brother! Amazing build sir. Great music choice too. Merry Christmas!
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.
How did you learn to do all this stuff like this? Did you take classes on it and read books as well or did you solely learn from your father/grandfather/uncles?
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.
More videos like this one!