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Shaving Horse
Next weekend I start taking an introduction to old English longbow making. I had a free day last week and decided to cobble together a simple, semi portable shaving horse. It's essentially a manually controlled clamp to hold materials while you use a spokeshave tool. The project could have been done more quickly and neatly had I not lost my jigsaw so I had to make due with a rougher cutting spiral cut saw that I couldn't be neat or precise with. However, the end result seems to work and it's actually great for whip making. Whether it is robust enough for bow making, well, I guess we'll have to see.
UPDATE: Construction details HERE.