Don,
A close up of the head and ratchet installed to go along with Mike's photo:
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I hope it helps. If interested do a google on shave horse and the PWW article with plans will be near the top.
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Don,
A close up of the head and ratchet installed to go along with Mike's photo:
Attachment 373017
I hope it helps. If interested do a google on shave horse and the PWW article with plans will be near the top.
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Joel,
That was one of the reasons I've just made one. When I cleaned up my wood storage and opened up the floor under the wood rack (put all inside wood on the rack) it opened up a storage spot. If you think about it and move enough "stuff" sometimes you can improve on the ten pounds of stuff in the five pound space.
I went from this:
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To this:
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The shave horse just fits where the vac is with the head in the open space to the left.
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Mike,
Your memory is good. That is my understanding as well, Tom did a little reverse engineering of a shave horse Boggs had with him when he taught a workshop at Tom's place.
Skill makes up for a lot of LN tools :), if you spend any time in places other than our western world you will still see how little it takes to make things.
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Thanks for all the follow-up info. Nice work all around.