I am looking for plans to build a shave horse. Does anyone know of a book or on line site with a set of plans. thanks, John.
Posted By: dstrecker
Re: shave horse - 12/07/01 07:32 PM
There is a good (if rather rustic) set of plans in a book called "Homebuilding and Woodworking in Colonial America" by c. Keith Wilbur. You can find it on amazon.com. The book itself is kinda interesting, including not only "pure" timber frame stuff but also period details (like why oxen were preferred over horses fo hauling timbers, diagrams of a water powered sawmill, etc), but it looks and reads a little like a kids book in places, and all the text is handwritten, which gets hard on the eyes after a while. Still, a decent book with some good info.
Posted By: Will Truax
Re: shave horse - 12/10/01 12:44 AM
Roy Underhills first book, which I believe is titled the same as his longrunning PBS show has a chapter on building shaving horses.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: shave horse - 12/22/01 02:36 AM
Hello John:
I have a set of good plans for a shaving horse that was constructed and used, and is still being used and reproduced at Upper Canada Village near Morrisburg Ontario. The plans were drew from one that I stumbled across quite a few years ago during a course I attended at Eastfield near Albany NY.
The Northern Hewer