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...
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!
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 ...
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.
@@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.
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 😀
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.
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)
@@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.
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.
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!
@@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.
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.
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
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...
Very kind of you to say! A couple hiccups but that’s part of the process
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
So much fun, thanks!
Your hewingskills with a normal axe is good. You will make nice planks with a proper hewing axe.
Thanks and I hope so. I am slowly working on rehabilitating and rehandling an adze, which I hope will also help with hewing.
I have the Gransfors Broadaxe, but I still hit my knuckels with it. I am looking now for an offset handle one.
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!
Do it! I was just using it last night and it was definitely worth the effort.
I think I’ll made one too! Amazing work Matt!
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 ...
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.
@@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.
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 😀
Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks for the video.
I am going to have a go at making one.
Glad you liked it. Have fun!
Nice work Matt! Great skills and historical documentation. I skipped around on the first watch and look forward to a second watch soon.
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.
This is awesome, great project! Really enjoyed it
Thanks!
Very well done .I injoyed it.!!!!!! Mr .Matt.
Thanks!
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.
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)
@@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.
Nice job 👏
Thank you! Cheers!
Very impressive. I really like these start-to-finish project videos.
Thanks!
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.
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!
@@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.
Wow thank you for sharing!! Such a great video. Can't wait to try to make one 😊
Glad it sparked your interest, good luck!
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.
How long is your shave horse?
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
@@MattKeevil thank you
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