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[victor meldrew]

One for Hive Maker perhaps
No, I have no idea myself
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[VEG]

its a vice used for holding timber while shaping in the woods

Or is it R2D2

 

[BeeJayBee]

It looks a bit like a "bodger's" pole lathe. http://www.bodgers.org.uk/index.php

Pictures here
http://www.bodgers.org.uk/gallery/main.php

And an article here
http://hants-woodturners-hwa.co.uk/2009/09/11/september-7th-pole-lathe-turning-steve-read/

 

[yeogi75]

i think by the size of jaws possibly for hazel stripping for basket making

 

[Luminos]

It looks a bit like a "bodger's" pole lathe. http://www.bodgers.org.uk/index.php

Pictures here
http://www.bodgers.org.uk/gallery/main.php

And an article here
http://hants-woodturners-hwa.co.uk/2009/09/11/september-7th-pole-lathe-turning-steve-read/

 

[beeboybee]

sorry to bee a bore...... but its actually a a shave horse used by bodgers to hold billets of wood and use a draw knife to roughy round the wood before using a pole lathe to make chair legs and similar.

 

[BeeJayBee]

Happy to be corrected

 

[Luminos]

? but there's a picture of one in Beejoyfuls link - for making rakes ?

 

[beeboybee]

The shaving horse would be used to clamp any wood to work it with a Drawknife, they are incredibly easy to use the pressure from you legs pivots to clamp the wood you wont to hold the only odd thing is the feeling of pulling a very large sharp knife towards you chest with both hands!!!!!!!

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

? but there's a picture of one in Beejoyfuls link - for making rakes ?

Why let facts get in the way of opinion?

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[VEG]

thats what i said

 

[victor meldrew]

i think by the size of jaws possibly for hazel stripping for basket making

Further down the Garden/field were some hazel hurdles ! My money is with you Can't rule out vice for draw knifing split timber prior to bodging (Multi tasking I suppose)
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