In this video I fall a couple Green Ash ( _Fraxinus pennsylvanica_ ) that were killed by Emerald Ash Borer and use them to build a shave horse using only hand tools for the entire process. This video is long but you can jump to specific spots using the timestamps/chapter outline below. (This is not the longest shave horse build on YouTube; this very cool @Zedoutdoors video showing traditional bodger’s shave horse build from greenwood is 3.25 hrs).

A shave horse is a traditional woodworking tool used to clamp wood for shaving with a drawknife. Other names are shaving horse, draw bench, banc d'âne, selle à planer, banc à planer, chevalet à planer, Schnitzbank, Schnitzelbank. There's lots of different styles and designs, and they range in complexity and finishing from #bushcraft grade, to practical homestead, to finely made with complex features.

Most shave horse designs can be categorized as two types, the English/bodger's (chairmaker's) type with two arms on the outside of the bench, and the continental/dumbhead type with one arm passing up through the bench. They each have pros and cons that I discuss in video.

I roughly followed the method popularized by Roy Underhill for the dumbhead design in his first book, The Woodwright’s Shop [ Ссылка ] and his TV show of the same name (some episodes are free on PBS but the first season Shaving Horse episodes (S1E2 and S1E3 are for sale at Popular Woodworking [ Ссылка ] ) This one is a simple, traditional design similar to one that would be used by a German farmer or North American homesteader.

I worked off the book and other YouTube videos. My favourite is this one by [ Ссылка ] @AxeAndAnvil The video I found that most closely follows the Roy Underhill design and methods is this one [ Ссылка ] from @townsends

A few other videos of inspiration/information:

Learn about Green Ash in this Tree of the Week episode from @UKForestryExtension (University of Kentucky Forestry and Natural Resources Extension) [ Ссылка ]

My previous shave horse is based on this one [ Ссылка ] from@traditionaltools5080

There's great refinement and modification ideas in this video [ Ссылка ] by @well-versedman9583, especially making the two sides of the dumbhead different heights. I will probably try that out later.

@KentSurvival Does a bushcraft-y take on the bodger's type [ Ссылка ]

@coalcracker has a bushcraft version of the dumbhead design, but he puts the pivot in the bench instead of the riser [ Ссылка ]

@TrustinTimber has a nicely produced take on the Roy Underhill design using Eastern White Cedar and chainsaw mill [ Ссылка ]

@royleonard1963 has a refined, take-down version of the bodger's type made out of an ash log

@RexKrueger makes a nice one out of lumber [ Ссылка ] and there are plans available.

A slick one from @AnneofAllTrades [ Ссылка ]

This vintage shave horse [ Ссылка ] from a later episode of the Woodwright's Shop (The Crotch and the Horse, which is free online) is just really cool and different.

Here's another really different antique example [ Ссылка ] from the Ross Farm Museum via @NovaScotiaMuseum

Finally, @TheudBaldM just using his _banc à planer_ for it's most divine purpose, making axe handles [ Ссылка ]

00:00 Intro
SECTION 1: RAW MATERIALS
04:00 Felling and processing tree #1
05:23 Splitting log #1
07:53 Hewing planks for the bench
13:55 Digression, another shave horse design.
15:56 Making pegs
18:34 Felling and processing tree #2
23:33 Rough splitting the dumbhead
27:03 Splitting and hewing a plank for the riser
28:02 Wood for the legs
SECTION 2: MAKING THE LEGS, BENCH, RISER AND DUMBHEAD
28:42 Rough carving the legs
29:12 Shaving the legs
30:11 Leg mortices
32:00 Installing legs
34:05 Carving the dumbhead
36:28 Shaping the riser and spacing block
38:28 Planning the bench and riser mortices
39:31 Fighting the big auger
40:25 Morticing the bench and riser
SECTION 3: ASSEMBLY
42:39 Pegging the riser
46:14 Boring the pivot
46:59 Dumbhead test fit, adjustments needed
48:31 Chiselling the neck of the dumbhead
49:30 Making the treadle
50:54 Brace drill breaks down, time for power tools?
54:21 Enlarging the bench mortise
54:43 Putting it all together.
56:05 Trying it out!

#ShaveHorse #DrawBench #DrawHorse #Schnitzbank #BancÀPlaner #BancAPlaner # BancDÂne #BancDAne #GreenWoodWorking #Axe

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