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the cover of shaving horses lap shaves and other woodland vices

Buy Shaving Horses, Lap Shaves and Other Woodland Vices: A Book of Plans and Techniques for the Green Woodworker by Sean Hellman, Lucy Lepchani from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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an image of a woodworking project with instructions on how to build the frame and seat

Few woodworking experiences are as sweet as working wood that’s just been split from a recently felled tree. Green wood is much easier to shape with hand tools than wood that’s been dried.

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a wooden bench made out of wood with the top section cut off to show how it's built

Jenny and Ian Make a Shave Horse: My wife Jenny has been getting into green woodworking and bushcraft type skills. This started with some training to become a forest schools teacher (an initiative in the UK to gets kids outside and learning so basic bushcraft skills, like shelter bu…

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a wooden bench sitting in front of a tv

The first woodworking I ever did was on a shaving horse. I had just turned twenty and a twelve year old sat me down at a shaving horse and taught me how to make a spatula from a piece of red maple firewood with a drawknife. I was hooked. The simple elegance and intuitive feel of the shaving horse and drawknife completely drew me in. The shaving horse. I've had the good fortune since that day to spend many hours and days on an array of shaving horses and work with a few other shaving horse…

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a wooden stool sitting on top of a green mat

Since the first time I saw a “shaving horse” I have wanted one. Although it is somewhat specialized in its use, there is nothing better for the work that it allows you to do to wood. I could even see this device a very helpful tool if you are into macramé. You could use it to hold tight the woven area and allow you to work about 12 to 20 inches at a time before you shift and continue. Here is my finished horse. I have always called it a “draw horse” since the common tool is a “draw knife”…

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the parts of a wooden rocking horse

Few woodworking experiences are as sweet as working wood that’s just been split from a recently felled tree. Green wood is much easier to shape with hand tools than wood that’s been dried.

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a piece of wood that is being worked on by someone using a vise tool

Poker-face warning: this is not an April Fool's gag (weren't quite clever enough this year!) A couple of years ago I built a very large dining table for my home. It will seat ten comfortably, and several more if needed. But I've held off on building chairs due to my inexperience with this furniture genre. The past couple years I've done a lot of research on chair types, or more accurately, chair-construction methods. I've spent a lot of my shop time making tree trunks into precise…

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