Gary,

The driver's seat adjustment of your automobile could provide insights.
Everyone adjusts the seat to their preferred distance from the pedals.

Measure off from the seat back to the brake pedal.  That, and some experiments
with an armless dining chair, will give you a starting point.

YMMV
John Ruth
Metuchen, NJ
Wearing shorts for the first time this year
> On Mar 14, 2024, at 3:23 PM, Gary Maze  wrote:
> 
> 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=dri
ve_link
> 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
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