Been looking at plans for a shaving horse and like the look of this one. I like the idea of an adjustable height workpiece holder.

Anyone see an issue with these plans to use for bow staves?
https://www.popularwoodworking.com/techniques/hybrid-shaving-horse/

I tried use one of those, I don't like them at all.

A 4" vice on your work bench works better

Shaving horses are nice, but like Max I found it was not optimum for bow work. You could only work a small section at a time and had to constantly reposition the stave. Its hard to work anything if its very far out from the fulcrum.

This works much better, it's 6' long with a 4" vice
4" because Handles are 4" on selfbows
I'm going to make 3 of these with Juniper


18" tall where you set

I build a shaving horse years ago from plans in Primitive Archer Magazine. I used it for many years until I bought a Stave Master from Keenan Howard(google it). I prefer the Stave Master now because it is fully adjustable and quite comfortable for my old body.
You can adjust the shaving horse in your link by lengthening the vertical arms with the "knucklehead" and adding a few more holes to lengthen the throat. 

Did Crazy Horse use a shaving horse?

I am pretty sure he did not wear jeans either. 

Quote from: Buemaker on October 21, 2021, 12:24:32 PM
Did Crazy Horse use a shaving horse?

I'll bet his horse got him out of some close shaves

 

Prolly used shaving cream for no chatting. 

Here is the one I made around 15 years ago, use it all the time.

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That's similar to the one I built years ago, Walt. The good, old fashioned kind. 

This is the Stave Master I got from Keenan Howard...

I made one years ago when I was really cutting a ton of osage and needed a platform to debark and remove the sapwood from it. I liked it for a while but like was mentioned it takes a lot of stave repositioning, and doesn't always put you in the optimum for working a stave.

I put a support post on the end of my workbench to keep my staves from shifting, after using this set-up for just a little while I gave my stave horse away.

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I like this

That is a good idea, you can move it up and back as needed.

I've got a bow horse and 4 different kinds of vices in the shop. Which one I use may depend on the kind of bow I'm working on and what specifically I'm doing to it.

In case you guys saved them, my bow horse is the one we used to do the how-to article in The Bowyer's Journal Fall 2005 issue.

Here is my shaving horse. Turns out it has more than one use. I like that.
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I prefer a setup like Bue and Eric. Makes it easy for me to work the whole limb at once.
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I also like that these clamps work well for different hobbies. They make a great improvised stitching pony for leather
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Nice setup, Flem.