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My poor man’s shave horse

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For anyone who would like/need a shavehorse but doesn’t have the time/space/money for a full size shavehorse, thought some may appreciate my poor man’s version. Its basically my Chris Schwarz plan Saw Bench with a hole for a holdfast in the top i use for sawing. But also use a holdfast to hold down my Peter Hersted travel shave horse which i crudely cobbled together from scrap pine. My intention is to rebuild the travel horse from a more ridgid wood like oak, and use a better pin than the timberscrew i had laying around. But have to say it has let me do everything i have needed to do for drawknife and spokeshave work on chairs and now a hammer handle:

Travel horse:

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Ingenious! And much easier to store.

I notice that you have made it so that only your left foot is pushing and your right foot stays on the floor. Is that a deliberate design choice? Do you end a session with one leg more tired than the other one?
 
AndyT said:
Ingenious! And much easier to store.

I notice that you have made it so that only your left foot is pushing and your right foot stays on the floor. Is that a deliberate design choice? Do you end a session with one leg more tired than the other one?
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Good catch. I simply followed the plans in Peter's video I posted, but could easily make a longer foot bar (his is one foot as he uses it on a stump, park bench etc). You say left foot, which is how I put the pin in, but it can fully reverse to use either leg and stores super compact (kind of reverses and nests into itself). I haven't noticed one leg tiring. Nothing like the old 1965 Mustang with a stick shift and racing clutch I used to drive! Watch this short video, its the video that made me want one!
 
Ah, now I get it. That makes the design even better!

I've only ever used a full-sized one, made in the woods from a log or two, sturdier but much much heavier, and was thinking too conventionally.
 
AndyT said:
Ah, now I get it. That makes the design even better!

I've only ever used a full-sized one, made in the woods from a log or two, sturdier but much much heavier, and was thinking too conventionally.
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I wouldn't mind having a full size one, and have thought about it. But my wife would probably question why i need another thing taking up room in the garage that to her probably looks the same as my benches and sawbench and sawhorses etc. Plus this portable one I can throw in the car for a camping trip and just sit on it on the picnic bench or a rock etc.
 
Cabinetman said:
That’s a good useful bit of kit, which I’ve added to my shavehorse photo file thanks.
One day!
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The travel horse itself is pretty quick to knock up and made mine out of scraps from around the shop(theres even still paint on parts as i I think it was an old shelf at some point in its former life. Probably spent 2 hours tops on it.
 
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