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Offline Pappy

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Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #15 on: March 12, 2012, 11:57:41 am »
Very well thought out,I have several of them similar to that one,little differences here and there. They work great. :)
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Offline ErictheViking

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Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #16 on: March 12, 2012, 01:24:19 pm »
way to improvise with what you got. I need to make myself one one of these days.
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Offline Onebowonder

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Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #17 on: March 12, 2012, 01:34:11 pm »
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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Offline mspink

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Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #18 on: March 13, 2012, 12:09:32 am »
thanks for the comments pretty proud of  it.  if i make another i will do a buildalong.
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Offline criveraville

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Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #19 on: March 13, 2012, 12:29:54 am »
Very nice there. You gotta do a build along on that.

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Offline 97dend

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Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #20 on: March 13, 2012, 09:17:46 am »
That is really cool, I may have to try that. Thanks for sharing
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Offline Youngboyer2(billyf)

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Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #21 on: March 13, 2012, 08:16:27 pm »
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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Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #22 on: March 14, 2012, 12:47:14 am »
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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Offline NruJaC

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Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #23 on: March 14, 2012, 05:36:40 am »
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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Re: made a doohicky
« Reply #24 on: March 14, 2012, 06:54:20 am »
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? :-[
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