From standing trees to shaving horse. Hand tools only!

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From standing trees to shaving horse. Hand tools only!

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In this video I fall a couple Green Ash ( Fraxinus pennsylvanica ) that were killed by Emerald Ash Borer and use them to build a shave horse using only hand tools for the entire process. This video is long but you can jump to specific spots using the timestamps/chapter outline below. (This is not the longest shave horse build on KZfaq; this very cool ‪@Zedoutdoors‬ video showing traditional bodger’s shave horse build from greenwood is 3.25 hrs).
A shave horse is a traditional woodworking tool used to clamp wood for shaving with a drawknife. Other names are shaving horse, draw bench, banc d'âne, selle à planer, banc à planer, chevalet à planer, Schnitzbank, Schnitzelbank. There's lots of different styles and designs, and they range in complexity and finishing from #bushcraft grade, to practical homestead, to finely made with complex features.
Most shave horse designs can be categorized as two types, the English/bodger's (chairmaker's) type with two arms on the outside of the bench, and the continental/dumbhead type with one arm passing up through the bench. They each have pros and cons that I discuss in video.
I roughly followed the method popularized by Roy Underhill for the dumbhead design in his first book, The Woodwright’s Shop books.google.ca/books?id=oMB9... and his TV show of the same name (some episodes are free on PBS but the first season Shaving Horse episodes (S1E2 and S1E3 are for sale at Popular Woodworking videos.popularwoodworking.com... ) This one is a simple, traditional design similar to one that would be used by a German farmer or North American homesteader.
I worked off the book and other KZfaq videos. My favourite is this one by • Making a Shave Horse f... ‪@AxeAndAnvil‬ The video I found that most closely follows the Roy Underhill design and methods is this one • Manual Foot-Powered Vi... from ‪@townsends‬
A few other videos of inspiration/information:
Learn about Green Ash in this Tree of the Week episode from @UKForestryExtension (University of Kentucky Forestry and Natural Resources Extension) • Tree of the Week: Gree...
My previous shave horse is based on this one • Video from‪@traditionaltools5080‬
There's great refinement and modification ideas in this video • Learn all about the Sc... by ‪@well-versedman9583‬, especially making the two sides of the dumbhead different heights. I will probably try that out later.
‪@KentSurvival‬ Does a bushcraft-y take on the bodger's type • Making A Rustic Shave ...
‪@coalcracker‬ has a bushcraft version of the dumbhead design, but he puts the pivot in the bench instead of the riser • A Shave Horse from One...
‪@TrustinTimber‬ has a nicely produced take on the Roy Underhill design using Eastern White Cedar and chainsaw mill • The Roy Underhill - DI...
‪@royleonard1963‬ has a refined, take-down version of the bodger's type made out of an ash log
‪@RexKrueger‬ makes a nice one out of lumber • Build a Shavehorse fro... and there are plans available.
A slick one from ‪@AnneofAllTrades‬ • Build a Shavehorse fro...
This vintage shave horse www.pbs.org/video/woodwrights... from a later episode of the Woodwright's Shop (The Crotch and the Horse, which is free online) is just really cool and different.
Here's another really different antique example • Ross Farm Museum - Sha... from the Ross Farm Museum via ‪@NovaScotiaMuseum‬
Finally, ‪@TheudBaldM‬ just using his banc à planer for it's most divine purpose, making axe handles • Comment faire un manch...
00:00 Intro
SECTION 1: RAW MATERIALS
04:00 Felling and processing tree #1
05:23 Splitting log #1
07:53 Hewing planks for the bench
13:55 Digression, another shave horse design.
15:56 Making pegs
18:34 Felling and processing tree #2
23:33 Rough splitting the dumbhead
27:03 Splitting and hewing a plank for the riser
28:02 Wood for the legs
SECTION 2: MAKING THE LEGS, BENCH, RISER AND DUMBHEAD
28:42 Rough carving the legs
29:12 Shaving the legs
30:11 Leg mortices
32:00 Installing legs
34:05 Carving the dumbhead
36:28 Shaping the riser and spacing block
38:28 Planning the bench and riser mortices
39:31 Fighting the big auger
40:25 Morticing the bench and riser
SECTION 3: ASSEMBLY
42:39 Pegging the riser
46:14 Boring the pivot
46:59 Dumbhead test fit, adjustments needed
48:31 Chiselling the neck of the dumbhead
49:30 Making the treadle
50:54 Brace drill breaks down, time for power tools?
54:21 Enlarging the bench mortise
54:43 Putting it all together.
56:05 Trying it out!
#ShaveHorse #DrawBench #DrawHorse #Schnitzbank #BancÀPlaner #BancAPlaner # BancDÂne #BancDAne #GreenWoodWorking #Axe

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@Brian2bears Жыл бұрын

Mr. Matt this project and the documentation of it are most professional. Very well done with no loose ends, thorough and well explained. I would covet you as a next-door neighbor...I too am a Mr. Chickadee viewer...

@MattKeevil Жыл бұрын

Very kind of you to say! A couple hiccups but that’s part of the process

@chriswasta7765 Жыл бұрын

I've had a shaving horse for 30 years in my shop. They are continually useful and fun to use. Thanks for the video. Best regards, Chris

@MattKeevil Жыл бұрын

So much fun, thanks!

@boywonder6659 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. I am going to have a go at making one.

@MattKeevil Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it. Have fun!

@williefick Жыл бұрын

Your hewingskills with a normal axe is good. You will make nice planks with a proper hewing axe.

@MattKeevil Жыл бұрын

Thanks and I hope so. I am slowly working on rehabilitating and rehandling an adze, which I hope will also help with hewing.

@williefick Жыл бұрын

I have the Gransfors Broadaxe, but I still hit my knuckels with it. I am looking now for an offset handle one.

@ItalskeSekery Жыл бұрын

Wow, great job! It must have taken a lot of work, but the final result is absolutely fantastic! I'm inspired to build one too. Thanks for sharing the video!

@MattKeevil Жыл бұрын

Do it! I was just using it last night and it was definitely worth the effort.

@emmanuel.belanger 7 ай бұрын

I think I’ll made one too! Amazing work Matt!

@urbanlumberjack Жыл бұрын

This is awesome, great project! Really enjoyed it

@MattKeevil Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@royleonard1963 Жыл бұрын

You've made a great job of that shave horse, I've just made another shave horse with hand tools, very rewarding. Thanks for linking my channel and I've subscribe 😀

@MattKeevil Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

@fisshayemezgebu8858 Жыл бұрын

Very well done .I injoyed it.!!!!!! Mr .Matt.

@MattKeevil Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@brettbrown9814 Жыл бұрын

Nice work Matt! Great skills and historical documentation. I skipped around on the first watch and look forward to a second watch soon.

@MattKeevil Жыл бұрын

Thanks brett! An hour is pretty long video and I thought about breaking it up but I figured it's better to keep it all in one place and people could also just check out the parts they're interested in with the time stamps.

@neild735 2 ай бұрын

Well done, Matt! I made this style shaving horse and like you followed Roy's book (The Woodwright's Shop). That was forty years ago (!) when I was living in southern Oregon, and I used an Oregon White Oak (Quercus garryana) which I felled on our property. I cheated and used a chainsaw. :-) As I'm sure you'd agree, it's a big job but well worth it. It worked wonderfully and I got a great deal of use from it. I made some 10 foot wide gates from Douglas fir poles and used the horse to carve round tenons on the ends of the poles. It would have been very awkward indeed to try to thread poles of that length through the bodger style frame. Thanks for a great video, and best wishes ...

@MattKeevil 2 ай бұрын

Thanks! I definitely agree, I've gotten a ton of use out of it already. It's my favourite project so far. I think that oak would be known as Garry Oak in Canada but I can only go by what the books I have call it, not being on the West Coast.

@neild735 2 ай бұрын

@@MattKeevil Yes, Garry Oak is the Canadian common name, same tree. My daughter lives on Vancouver Island near Sooke in what is considered part of the Garry Oak eco-system.

@stevekelley1179 Жыл бұрын

Nice job 👏

@MattKeevil Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@Joey-L Жыл бұрын

Very impressive. I really like these start-to-finish project videos.

@MattKeevil Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@ethicalaxe Жыл бұрын

I've had a battle riving green ash. The handles that came from it seem really good. Better than other ash I've felt and it's not even perfect lumber.

@MattKeevil Жыл бұрын

Ash is so variable not just species but also the soil drainage is apparently critical (dry soil = bats and tool handles; soggy soil = musical instruments)

@ethicalaxe Жыл бұрын

@@MattKeevil Interesting. I personally have had a lot of light and brittle seeming ash but the stuff I harvested feels much more dense. Seems better for abrasion resistance.

@organogold8 11 ай бұрын

Wow thank you for sharing!! Such a great video. Can't wait to try to make one 😊

@MattKeevil 11 ай бұрын

Glad it sparked your interest, good luck!

@ethicalaxe Жыл бұрын

I was going to make one until I attached a vise to a low bench. Man I wish I hadn't because i know I'd love to use a shavehorse. Can leave them outside. But the low bench with a vise is awesome haha I can't complain. Sitting on the bench of your clamp/vise is truly ingenious. Very small footprint and your own body weight is what keeps you in place. No more rocking table. Making a workbench can be a lot of money, time and effort. I suggest someone making a shavehorse/low bench before that.

@MattKeevil Жыл бұрын

Yeah when you mentioned your low bench with a vice I just thought “of course!” I inherited an little bench vice recently 🤔 Maybe that’s what I will build with that ash plank I have left over!

@ethicalaxe Жыл бұрын

@@MattKeevil So I don't use my vise bench for banging on much because of the wooden nails I attached it with. I love using it for shaping handles and filing. I use the jawhorse to drift a handle out of a head. I think the coolest part about a low bench is one end can be a shave horse and the other can be for fine wood working. I mean it can be 10 feet long if you want! Mine is only 36 inches long. Could put a wood vise at the end. Mine has a modern metal vise I just plopped on top.

@rwdyeriii 7 ай бұрын

I appreciate your commitment to traditional woodworking. However if i was doing this, i think i would have to use a chainsaw because this takes so much time to split everything out.

@jenkins1979 Жыл бұрын

How long is your shave horse?

@MattKeevil Жыл бұрын

I just measured it and it is 54 inches (137 cm). Roy Underhill suggests starting with a 6 foot log but mine was cut shorter and I trimmed the bench ends to square it up. I would go closer to 6 foot if I were to do it again

@jenkins1979 Жыл бұрын

@@MattKeevil thank you