The Shaving Horse

Describe the most ambitious DIY project you’ve ever taken on.

Contrary to what people may believe it to be, a shaving horse is not what its name implies.

A shaving horse is a wood working bench used by bowyers to make a wood stave into a longbow.

Or better said, to make a length of wood into a longbow.

I like longbows. I don’t know why. Perhaps it has something to do with my sign. I’ll let you figure that puzzle out on your own. But I don’t know.

There’s something about making a piece of wood into a longbow and another into arrows that uplifts my soul.

Transforming wood on Vangelis’ songs is cathartic.

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