re: My Chevalets

I have built a chevalet from Paul’s (Shipwright’s) plans Here and it works perfectly, so you really don’t need to spend a lot of money for plans or hardware. I used Paul’s Sketchup drawings. They have all the dimensions and they are accurate. I had a bit of a hard time seeing them because my eyesight isn’t the best so where I couldn’t see the included dimensions clearly I just used the Sketchup tape tool to measure them. The chevy looks complicated, but it was not difficult to build from a technical standpoint. It is just a series of simple smaller projects that are assembled together, although I have to say that building one from scratch that actually works with just a photo or two like Paul did was quite a feat. My chevy cost me about $300 all together, and almost all of that was for the maple materials which are pretty costly here in Norway. I do not find the Chevy difficult to use and it is capable of some extremely accurate work with a little practice.