Hanging a saw from the front of your bench
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30 April 2016 at 1:06 am #136821
Does anyone know how Paul hangs his saws from his apron? Are there any pictures that shoe it? I would like to make one and I am not sure how it is attached. Surely, it just isn’t hanging off a peg?
30 April 2016 at 1:13 am #136822I’ve seen a picture somewhere but there’s no videos on workbench mods from Paul as of yet. At some point they were talking of doing a new, refactored workbench build. I don’t recall where I saw the picture but I’ll look around later. It definitely was not a peg.
30 April 2016 at 4:18 am #136824If it is just a screw, how do you keep it from coming off accidentally?
Angle the screw down a few degrees, the saw will drift towards the bench with vibration and gravity. Use a screw with a decent sized head and it will be like a knob at the end. A tapered screw head shouldn’t dig into the handle with the 45° bevel on the thread side of the head.
Here you go:
https://paulsellers.com/2015/01/closing-out-on-my-bench-fitments/The screw is wrapped in masking tape to prevent the screw from scratching then handle.
David
30 April 2016 at 11:58 am #136833If I did that, I would cut my legs every time I turned around. I hang mine from a nail from the rafters….
I’ve used a 3 or 3.5″ construction screw to hang mine without them ever falling off. Just insert the screw at an angle. The real problem is that the screw threads *will* chew up your saw handle if left exposed. I marred one handle before realizing this, and then added some plastic tubing (a spacer for hanging gutters that covers the gutter nail). I wouldn’t want to use tape. In what I did, the screw head pulled inside the tubing. Just about anything will work, just protect the handle from the threads and set the screw at an angle.
4 May 2016 at 4:57 am #136956@jotato – Hey Joe, in another post of yours about holes in the benchtop, Peter mentioned an old Sellers blog post (https://paulsellers.com/2015/11/great-holdfasting-system/). Look at the last photo in the post and you can see his saws hanging off the bench. You can’t really see the screws too well, but you can see the handle-shaped pieces of wood that keep the saws firmly in place.
4 May 2016 at 5:00 am #136957Awesome! thanks That is what I was looking for. Yeah, they hang just fine from a screw but those pieces of wood look like they stop it from moving around
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