Gentle Galoots,

I had been wanting to make a shaving horse for a long time, but did
not really have room for one. However my nephew wanted to make an axe
handle so I started looking for plans. After some interweb searching I
settled on a folding design that Drew Langsner has been using for his
country woodcraft classes.
I picked up the plans from the Japanese green woodworking site and
started building.
After some struggles (I figured out that it is almost impossible for
me to drill a hole even close to perpendicular to a surface without a
drill press) I got it to a pretty usable state so I gave it a tryout
and almost split my kneecap trying to use it.
 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zQxr0r-PqXj6sgVn_6if72OrcXef4mf4/view?usp=driv
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Then I realized when watching the accompanying video that the
demonstrator was a petite 5 foot tall Japanese lady. I probably have
14 inches on her and probably weigh twice what she does.
So now I am planning on reworking the shaving horse so it is taller
and longer. Does anyone know what a good length to the foot rest would
be for a horse for someone 6 foot 2? I think I have a good idea of the
height since I have been putting spacers under the legs, but I would
like to only have to build this one more time.

 Thank you everyone for any help or suggestions,

Gary Maze

waiting for the second round of thunderstorms coming through tonight