How to Build a Shave Horse. Bowyers Woodworking Dream. Traditional Handmade Vice for Wood Carving

How to Build a Shave Horse. A Bowyer's Woodworking Dream. Perfect home made vice for wood carving and draw knife work. I've been hand making bows for over two years and have always struggled to hold my bow staves steady whilst working on them with spoke shave and draw knife. Enough's enough! So I handmade a shave horse - an ancient type of foot operated vice perfect for wood carving, spoon making and - my interest - bow making. Traditionally used to prepare wood for the pole lathe, the shave horse has numerous other woodland and homesteading uses and is a perfect homemade companion when making bows. Using foot power alone, the stave is gripped tightly allowing the hands to work the tools. In this video I show how I make a shave horse for free - all the wood I use is scrap or found in the fields and hedgerows. Watch me as build this most wonderful aid to building bows. Dimensions included.

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I'm Mick Grewcock, retired from business and now self-learning the arts of longbow- and film-making. Join me in my light-hearted quest for knowledge as I learn to combine the ancient woodworking craft of bow-making with digital videography and film making - I'd be delighted to have you for company on this bizarre journey combining digital and primitive technology.

I have a deep passion for the medieval English longbow, the great warbow - the powerful version of the English longbow that earned its fearsome reputation during the Middle Ages, notably the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries on the ferocious battle fields of France and England during the One Hundred Years War (and in the hands of Robin Hood too!). It is an iconic weapon - and to this day, exudes heritage and awesome power.

Lots of bow making on my channel - do browse, view, like comment and subscribe. I have videos on making yew, hazel, elm and blackthorn longbows as well as many others related to primitive and instinctive archery, target archery arrow and bow making. In my videos you will see and hear what it is like to self learn bow making. I am self-taught as a bowyer - learning the hard way to work wood to make a bow - and still discovering every day. Sometimes I fail, sometimes I succeed; but I'm always learning. I also explore the UK's rural landscape, sometimes in search of bow making woods, discovering survival skills, sometimes in search of the glories of this landscape.

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