Shaving horse

The cutting-board (also called " Heinzel Bank" in the Ore Mountains, " Hoanzlbank " im Pinzgau and Lower Austria ) is a working unit in the peasant woodworking, is carved on the wood.

The cutting-board is a device for detecting wood workpieces during their processing. It stands on four wooden legs. On the longitudinal side of the clamping device ( jaw ) is mounted. The worker sits on the bench as a donkey or horse, where the terms " cutting donkey " and " Schnitzpferd " may come. Donkey is also otherwise in handicraft and agricultural sector was used expression for entertaining or carrying utensils, also known as the Bock ( and servant ). In an opening there is a pedicle clamp, which can be fixed with one foot on a pedal. Thus, it is possible, with the frost knife, a carving knife with a handle on either side to peel round wood, or smooth. This also tool shafts and other wooden poles or shingles can be produced, which is why it is also called " shingle bank." The advantage of cutting- is, inter alia, that the worker has both hands free for carving, since not he, but the cutting- holds the workpiece, the clamping device.