Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Badger on July 12, 2015, 12:36:08 pm
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I have made a lot of bows over this shaving mule but I think it needs a few design changes I have been putting off. Going to miss you old girl! The 4 staves I roughed out in the picture I decided to weigh so I could keep track of the moisture loss. Every single one of the weighed exactly 36 oz. I got a kick out of that.
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I'm in about the same boat with my shave horse. You going to use the same design or use a different plan? Like to see what you come up with, Thanks Chuck
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I'm in about the same boat with my shave horse. You going to use the same design or use a different plan? Like to see what you come up with, Thanks Chuck
This is actually called a shaving mule because of the type of adjustment it uses where the stave rests. I am going to slightly change the height and the angles of the legs and the angle on the stave holding block. Very close to indentical with only very minor changes.
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It served you well, Badger!
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Hope you post it when finished, Chuck
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Looks nice, I'll take it haha. Is there a tutorial on how to make one of those? It would save my back, which has been getting very sore for shaping my staves.
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looks like its got a few more bows in it :)
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looks like its got a few more bows in it :)
It would probably out last me. I want the new one about 8" longer, about 1/2 the angle you see not on the bow sitting in it. A little higher so I can use a longer foot petal. The seat slides and with another 8 inches I could work an entire limb without moving the bow. I am also considering just working in a vice and standing. As a retiree my legs need the exercise, amazing the workout you can give your legs hogging wood off of a stave while standing. Sitting on the horse almost makes it too easy.
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I must say I prefer the precision of a vice and solid bench. I've used shave horses a few times and never really got on with them, what I do like is the fact that you aren't tied into a workshop with a shave horse especially when the sun is shining :)
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I get a lot of people asking me for 'plans' for my one... Plans??? I didn't use no steenking plans ::)
Fitting the seat at an angle worked for me so that I can let the stave pass by my left side... handy with some of those V long warbows.
When I'm doing fetes/fairs etc I tell the kids it's called a shave horse 'cos it's got the 3 legs like a horse ::)... maybe a kid will laugh one day? :laugh:
Del
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I also use a vice and standing but on occasionally I just want to set and use mine, a good vice set up or bench is like an old friend, you get use to them and them to you. ;) :) Mine got more use when you was in Tennessee than it has in a long while. ;) :)
Pappy
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I guess they can be useful down South but up here in the North they are not very practical so I stopped using mine some 20 years ago. Do all of my tillering indoors, don't have to fight with the bugs in the Summer and I don't freeze my a** in the Winter
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I guess they can be useful down South but up here in the North they are not very practical so I stopped using mine some 20 years ago. Do all of my tillering indoors, don't have to fight with the bugs in the Summer and I don't freeze my a** in the Winter
I always wondered about that Mark. I live on the coast, seldom ever hot, never cold and no bugs. I actually envy the guys with 4 seasons but might change my mind if I lived in it.