In a lot of pain ... working long hours on my shaving horse

[Bobby Slack]

Location, Pitkin, Colorado at about 9,800 ft of elevation.

Physical preparation: did P90X & P90X2 for a year and felt fantastic.

Discovery: Sitting on my Peeling Bench / Shaving Horse day after day, non stop, beat up my body. When I work out, my body has time to recover between different workouts.

I have been humbled

Last year I peeled logs cut from the forest service for fire prevention. These logs grew in a style callled "Dog Hair". These are ideal for deck rails because the lodge pole pine grew tall and relatively thin (between 2 and 3-1/4" in diameter ... the ones I picked up). When looking at the growth rings and saw that a piece under 3" had over 70 growth rings ....

So with the help of Shannon I got some plans from Peter Galbert http://www.petergalbertchairmaker.com/index.html and started working on my shaving horse.

I got the base done and sometimes my desire to create interesting ballisters hurt me. I ended up shaping some of the thick ones and that is what beat up my boddy.

OK so there is the long story of pain. Using a shaving horse is almost like rowing using legs, core and arms ...

Wh at I am doing different from the log builders is that after I get the tenon sized with my draw knife http://www.lie-nielsen.com/catalog.php?sku=dknife I take some more material using my Lie Nielsen /Brian Boggs spoke shave http://www.lie-nielsen.com/catalog.php?grp=1222 and take a few extra shavings.

The idea is to pre-finish before assembly.

My left lats are hurting a day to recover appreciating the fall colors from my front window.

[BuilderBill]

No pain, no gain! Just wait 'til you've almost run out of 50's .... Ibuprofen is your friend. They don't call it woodWORKING for nothing.

New tasks can exercise different muscles and groups, do it for a month or two and you'll never notice, you'll have developed the muscles needed for that routine. Until then it hurts, no getting around it.

Enjoy your day off!

Best,

Bill

[Onboard]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovTuxRbGcMg? No child was harmed in the shooting of this video (44 seconds).

Bobby, I guess your finished stripping bark. I didn’t know if you looked into something like a barking spade from Muller, or not. The URL for this page is not specific, so you’ll have to click on the Product Survey on the left, then scroll down to Bark Strippers, click on All Available Articles and then click on the Bark Strippers link (sorry). If you scroll down a ways you’ll see a spade with a long handle and a steel ball on the end of the handle. You can purchase any spade you want in the weight that you want and mount a handle on it of whatever length you want. They also sell the steel ball separately to attach to the end of the handle for extra momentum.

I have no idea as to how well these work with the small diameter logs you have been working with. Just a thought if you haven’t looked into this already, or still have any reason to.

[Bobby Slack]

No pain, no gain! Just wait 'til you've almost run out of 50's .... Ibuprofen is your friend. They don't call it woodWORKING for nothing.

Thanks. I did nothing yesterday ... nothing and today I feel great. Need to find a couple of long rails (lodgepole pines .. I prefer standing dead), peel them and keep them in the garage for next year.

New tasks can exercise different muscles and groups, do it for a month or two and you'll never notice, you'll have developed the muscles needed for that routine. Until then it hurts, no getting around it.

Enjoy your day off!

Best,

Bill

[Bobby Slack]

I peeled the logs last year and stored them in the garage. What I am doing this year is the tenons (ballisters).

Tenon fit. There are three ways as far as I know.

1. tenon with a hand drill and mortise with a drill. I don't like this look because it looks like a sharpened pencil. Ballister is rough and joint is smoot.

2. Tenon with a router jig (logman X) and mortise with a drill. Don't like because same reason as above.

3. Tenon with a drawknife and mortise with a drill. I like this finish

4 ... I said three but If I have a ballisterthat is very thick I take most of the extra material with a router and leave it oversize, then finish it on the shaving horse.

I used the same drawknife for everything and so far worked well. When I finish with my cabin I will probably play with real log construction but ... so many things to do.

Would like to marry both stiles of woodworking in Colorado, partly nice wood done with my jointer, planer, etc ... and create a log accent. Time will tell. So little time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovTuxRbGcMg? No child was harmed in the shooting of this video (44 seconds).

Bobby, I guess your finished stripping bark. I didn’t know if you looked into something like a barking spade from Muller, or not. The URL for this page is not specific, so you’ll have to click on the Product Survey on the left, then scroll down to Bark Strippers, click on All Available Articles and then click on the Bark Strippers link (sorry). If you scroll down a ways you’ll see a spade with a long handle and a steel ball on the end of the handle. You can purchase any spade you want in the weight that you want and mount a handle on it of whatever length you want. They also sell the steel ball separately to attach to the end of the handle for extra momentum.

I have no idea as to how well these work with the small diameter logs you have been working with. Just a thought if you haven’t looked into this already, or still have any reason to.