LOML went to the first flea market of the year and came back with this for me
I actually do know what it's called but just thought I'd throw a couple of pics up and see if anyone else knew.
Dean
LOML went to the first flea market of the year and came back with this for me
I actually do know what it's called but just thought I'd throw a couple of pics up and see if anyone else knew.
Dean
a draw bench....................what do i win?
The Country Toad Workshop Rogersville, Al
Got yourself a pretty doggone nice shaving horse there.
A dumb head, a shaving bench, etc, Many names used around the country and at different times.
What you do today determines what you can do tomorrow.
The name that I have for it is a "Schnitzelbank". Of course LOML was shopping with the owner of our local German Restaurant so that might have something to do with it.
Dean
The name I've seen for this is a shaving horse...Roy Underhill uses one on his show if you are lucky enought to get it on PBS. (I don't, unfortunately)Originally Posted by Don Henthorn Smithville, TX
The idea is that the bench not only supports your tush, but it also acts as a quick release clamp for the workpiece as you work it with a drawknive or similar tool. You can very quckly release the pressure, reposition the workpiece, grasp it again and start working with the knife from a different perspective.
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The most expensive tool is the one you buy "cheaply" and often...
Heck....I thought it was the original Weider weight lifting bench......
DonnieR
It's a fine looking, light-looking but strong, I'm sure, shaving horse that been used for ages, was made with a deft hand and with nice proportion, and has recently been severely abused by an ignorant antqiue dealer with some gloss polyurethane.
Originally Posted by Donnie Raines
LOL, Donnie.
I swear a saw one of those on a tour of the dungeon at "Medieval Times", right next to the thumbscrews!
Very good observation. Ouch! There would never be any kind of finish on something like this outside the patina of time and use.Originally Posted by Todd Burch
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The most expensive tool is the one you buy "cheaply" and often...
Yes, I am very familiar with that. It is a snow mobile propped up on legs.
If it were mine, I'd just call it Dog. I'm sure it'd come 'a runnin!
Originally Posted by Jim Becker
I mentioned that to LOML that now that I had this Neander bench I'd have to acquire a whole new set of tools to use it with. Just got "that" look.
I don't know why not though, she started it.
Originally Posted by Todd Burch
I agree about the poly on it. I think the antique dealer was thinking somebody would set it in their house as a decoration. What a waste of a fine bench.
Originally Posted by Stefan Antwarg
No, I've got the antique snowmobile out in the yard left for me by the previous owner of my house. Also had a Jawa motorcycle but that I sold.