[Regia-NA] Shave Horses

[Linda Rice]

Great, thanks! Draw knives are easy enough to find at antique shops or
on eBay. Yes, we went ahead and made a horse, very crudely to say the
least. It is the companion piece to the bow lathe, and they draw a lot
of attention. It's made of rough-cut oak, and weighs a ton. I think DH
would be heartbroken if I had to tell him that he can't use it in Viking
camp. (He's um, "mechanically challenged", so when he found that he
liked coopering I was quite happy)

Pax,

Linda


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On Behalf Of Carolyn Priest-Dorman
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] Shave Horses

Linda wrote:

>I was wondering if anyone could tell me a bit more about shave horses
in
>the AS/Viking period.

I'd like to know a great deal more about this too, because my husband
has=20
been researching this tool for years without being able to put it into
the=20
period.  (The earliest certain depiction of one is late 16th century, if
I=20
remember correctly.)  A discussion of the sources would be *very*=20
useful.  He's been so frustrated by it that at this point he's
researching=20
similar technologies such as tanners' scraping benches.

>Were the draw knives basically the
>same, or was there any significant difference in style/design?

There are draw knives in a number of configurations from Norway and
Jorvik,=20
at the very least.  They seem a great deal like what ours would look
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if we buried them for 1000 years. ;>


Carolyn Priest-Dorman              =DE=F3ra Sharptooth
  http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/thora.html