Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: mspink on March 11, 2012, 09:38:28 pm
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Hey guys made this contraption today to make more bows in the early stages without giving myself a hernia. Its ugly but does the trick, plus, had a couple 2X's layin round anyway. Enjoy
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Got a footrest and everything haha, very nice
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That would make for an awesome buildalong
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That would make for an awesome buildalong
i agree good job looks like it works great sure beats the heck out of clamping the stave to a work bench and jerking the bench all over lol
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Looks like it works. I would need a 2x12 for a seat though ;D
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i think you did a awesome job on that.very impressed.thanks for the look.
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That's awesome! I'm calling it a bow horse, and I too want more details. That's definitely something I'd like to build for myself.
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Awesome doohicky! Besides Keenan"s Stave Master, that's one of the more original shaving horses I've seen (and I've looked at a lot of them). And it uses readily available materials that almost any workshop would have in their scrap pile. I need to make one for myself (while I'm savin up for one of the "Masters") because I'm ruining my right shoulder by doing all my chopping, scraping and filing work with my right arm while holding with my left. Something like that would even out the work. Nice job. Thanks for sharing.
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That's nice!!! it beats my tuffbox, with a vice bolted to the lid!!
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"Looks like it works. I would need a 2x12 for a seat though"
Thanks for the comments. An I couldnt believe it either but it does work. Got less than ten dollars worth of material in it. An the seat could be a bit better. But I am proud of it. Still dont know what I want to call it yet. Doohicky will work for now..
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Very nice...if I wasn't so lazy I'd one a try :)
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Looks good i would like to have one but no room.
There is nothing like looking down on your work at a different angle while shapping a bow, much better way to go rather than using a work bench.
That's my 2 bits worth. :D
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Nice doohickey! Now make you a thingamabober !! ;)
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Buildalong PLEASE
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DUDE THAT'S AWESOME!!! I guess PRIMITIVE is using what you have! Now I'm gonna have to make me one!
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Very well thought out,I have several of them similar to that one,little differences here and there. They work great. :)
Pappy
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way to improvise with what you got. I need to make myself one one of these days.
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I built a similar one a few years back. I copied mine off an amish furniture maker's shop bench. Mine has a giant head that holds the piece of wood you're working on down tightly against the stave cradle. The legs on mine are getting weak and wobbly though and I need to re-build it.
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thanks for the comments pretty proud of it. if i make another i will do a buildalong.
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Very nice there. You gotta do a build along on that.
Cipriano
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That is really cool, I may have to try that. Thanks for sharing
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Every time imlook at this I want 2 make one more and more, I
Can only spend weekends at a proper shop and the thing I set up in my basement doesn't have anything good for holding bows,
One question though, can you assemble and disassemble it easily, say for storage in the winter?
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Youngboyer, I didnt make it to be disassembled but you could easily make a modification to it so it is. I just keep it under back porch in good weather and move it to garage otherwise. It weighs around thirty pounds or so. Not too heavy but could be lighter.
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mspink: While a build-a-long might take some time together, can you post some more details on its construction? I have a pretty good idea of how it works from studying your pictures, but some more details would really help. I'd really like to build this thing so I can stop clamping my bows to my folding chairs and then sitting on them to scrape them! (Really wish I had a proper shop, but alas, not for some time)
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At last! A shave horse that really looks like a horse... ;D
The clamp arrangement really looks like a horse head.. or is it just me? :-[
Del