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  2. Shaving horse - Wikipedia

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    Shaving horse. A shaving horse ( shave horse, or shaving bench[ 1]) is a combination of vice and workbench, used for green woodworking. Typical usage of the shaving horse is to create a round profile along a square piece, such as for a chair leg or to prepare a workpiece for the pole lathe. They are used in crafts such as coopering and bowyery .

  3. Modesty panel - Wikipedia

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    A modesty panel is a partition often attached to a news desk to cover a news anchor's legs. [4] Early modesty panels were often used in Quaker meeting houses and other churches of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, growing in popularity during the Victorian era. Modesty panels might be found running up the sides of stairways to discourage ...

  4. Resolute desk - Wikipedia

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    48 in (120 cm) The Resolute desk, also known as the Hayes desk, is a nineteenth-century partners desk used by several presidents of the United States in the White House as the Oval Office desk, including the five most recent presidents. The desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the oak ...

  5. Sawhorse - Wikipedia

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    Sawhorse. Diagram of a sawhorse. A folding sawhorse. In woodworking, a saw-horse or sawhorse (saw-buck, trestle, buck) [ 1] is a trestle structure used to support a board or plank for sawing. A pair of sawhorses can support a plank, forming a scaffold. [ 2] In certain circles, it is also known as a mule and a short sawhorse is known as a pony ...

  6. Wooden horse (device) - Wikipedia

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    A wooden horse, Chevalet (as it was called in Spain), Spanish donkey or cavalletto squarciapalle is a torture device, of which there exist two variations; both inflict pain by using the subject's own weight by keeping the legs open, tied with ropes from above, while lowering down the subject. [ 1] The French called this instrument the chevalet ...

  7. Sawbuck - Wikipedia

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    Sawbuck. In woodworking, a sawbuck is a structure for holding wood so that it may be cut into pieces. [ 1] Easily made in the field from rough material, it consists of an "X" form at each end which are joined by cross bars below the intersections of the X's. The wood to be cut is placed in the V's formed above the intersections of the X's.

  8. IKEA effect - Wikipedia

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    The IKEA effect was identified and named by Michael I. Norton of Harvard Business School, Daniel Mochon of Yale, and Dan Ariely of Duke, who published the results of three studies in 2011. They described the IKEA effect as "labor alone can be sufficient to induce greater liking for the fruits of one's labor: even constructing a standardized ...

  9. Cabriole leg - Wikipedia

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    A cabriole leg is one of (usually) four vertical supports of a piece of furniture shaped in two curves; the upper arc is convex, while lower is concave; the upper curve always bows outward, while the lower curve bows inward; with the axes of the two curves in the same plane. This design was used by the ancient Chinese and Greeks, but emerged in ...

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