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I need to make a shaving horse ..

This post means I’m starting to Think about making one and starting to collect information.  Tim Manney has a great one that I’ll be using as a go by.

Shaving Horse Base

Build a Better Shaving Horse

Shaving Horse – The Business End

shave horse

Roy Underhill video: 

THE WOODWRIGHT’S SHOP

Brian Boggs, Chairmaker

http://video.unctv.org/video/1427698750/

AW Extra – Hybrid Shaving Horse

Hybrid-Shaving-Horse_lead

 

Coffee Table for a Friend

A friend asked me to make a small coffee table for her.  The table is loosely based on Gregory Palolini’s design but smaller an no bread board ends.  The table will be all cherry with a clear finish which will allow it to darken in their sun filled living room. 

Here are a few progress shots.

Laying out with story stick
Book match mark up complete .
Laying out stretchers.
Dry fit of ends.
Festool joinery in action.
Dry fit with slats.

spoons and spoons

Some help on spoon carving.

pfollansbee's avatarPETER FOLLANSBEE: JOINER’S NOTES

As you might have noticed, I haven’t written much lately. well, not here anyway. Been finishing some articles, one for American Furniture and some for Popular Woodworking Magazine. That, plus the awful heat here have conspired to keep me from the blog. It’s not cooler yet, but I did get a few pictures of this and that.

As some of you know, I am looking forward to carving Swedish-style spoons this summer in Jogge Sundqvist’s class at Country Workshops (www.countryworkshops.org) –

 

but sometimes in my day job I need to carve spoons that represent those used by English settlers in Plymouth c. 1627. I know just about nothing of the spoons used then, other than having seen a few at the Mary Rose years ago ( http://www.maryrose.org/)  

I carve them from maple usually, having riven out radial blanks. This way I can get a lot of spoons from one small…

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