David Tuttle wrote:
>>I just got in from making another shave. I made one last year from
>>Our brother's kit. And while it was a splendid working tool, it was
>>uglier than a certain call taping civil servant in DC.  I mean this tool
>>produced wispy shavings and very smooth surfaces, but I finally
>>got tired of looking at it. Three hours and the replacement is done.
>>Not an objet d'art ( wasn't meant to be ) but is does not cause one to
>>barf., and it cuts just like the first one.
>
>Now I seemed to have missed that thread, Who started it and what is the
>evolution of the spoke shave come to... I don't care for my steel ones and
>I have one fairly good old one but would not mind input on how to make a
>real good useful spoke shave and retire the others which are a pain (mind
>you I have not added Ron's blades to my spoke shaves but I assume there has
>to be some level of cooperation with the tool and worker before I spend
>money on good blades).

Check the August '98 issue of American Woodworker, pages 42-45, for an
article on making a wooden spokeshave by none other than the "Shah of
Shaves" (Dave Wachnicki...he teaches shave making at Mike Dunbar's shop).
The article includes the templates for shaping the handles and body and
everything else you need short of a live teacher.

Dave's got a newly created web site as well (but of course I don't have the
URL handy...that'd be wayyyy too easy).  :-)

Tim S.