Shaving horses

[Christophe]

Hi Everyone,

Just a internet one:

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Sorry for the poor quality picture
Made by a french guy....

[81stBRAT]

Just made this horse for my grandson who is 2 next birthday all timber home grown (thinking ahead) it is fully adjustable, hopefully still around when he is big enough, plan for him is to get him on Blue Peter when 8 making a Sussex trug, like his father did at that age, but refused to go TV. My own horse for comparison
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Long time since I tried to put images on fingers crossed
Richard

[81stBRAT]

Here is the birthday boy sitting on his horse
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[SeanHellman]

Brilliant, training cannot start early enough. I find a spokeshave works better than a cloth wrapped drawknife

[81stBRAT]

Thanks Sean, will start him off with a spoke shave, will be a slow job 4 years to six then the horse will fit with a few modifications. lets hope we last.
Richard

[redsquirrel]

Just made this horse for my grandson who is 2 next birthday all timber home grown (thinking ahead) it is fully adjustable, hopefully still around when he is big enough, plan for him is to get him on Blue Peter when 8 making a Sussex trug, like his father did at that age, but refused to go TV.

Sorry to ask, but doesn't the first refusal tell you something? This is supposed to be something to enjoy, not to bear the weight of misguided forebears.

[81stBRAT]

My son only refused to go on Blue Peter, he used his skills to produce enough Trugs to sell, at £3 each to enable him to buy his own computer,next modle after ZX 81 there was no pressure on him at all. He still uses his hand to make a living.

[muesli]

Zed has a really good video about building a shaving horse on his channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjOeKgOirNo
It's quite long, but worth watching every minute.

[Billman]

Looking through this thread as an archive source, I am most disappointed to see that most of the images are no longer available...

If you have posted a link from a web hosting site, e.g. Photo Bucket, the image appears to be lost...

It is important to a) save images to your own computer and b) upload them to your message - just pasting the link to a 3rd party host appears not to work long term...

This image, from Roubo (L'Art de Menusier) from the 18th century had to be edited several times to obtain a format size suitable for posting here, but hopefully it will now remain on view for as long as this site exists...