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14 September 2014 at 6:46 am #83797
Does anyone know what is the best design for making sturdy saw horses/saw stools?
Looking at Mr Sellers building his workbench, I noticed that he was using some saw horses that looked sturdy.
I don’t have room in the garage and I am planning to build a work shed; however, at present I work in the garden using some rickety old saw horses.
There is plenty of videos on how to make them, but they are all a bit crude. They all seem to want to use lots of wood and lots of screws.
The most interesting one is show in the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Uzg7kUMeQ14 September 2014 at 3:45 pm #84170I built mine following Mr. Sellers blog. They are very sturdy.
http://paulsellers.com/2013/09/saw-horses-cutting-list-get-wood/
Hope this helps.
15 September 2014 at 3:49 am #85185Thank you John,
That is great help. I missed that post.
I’ll give it a try. That compound angle still has me miffed and I think I’ll waste a few bits of wood before I get it right.
I’ll post some pictures when I get it finished.Thanks again!
15 September 2014 at 3:10 pm #85564Allso look under the heading Saw Bench…
You will geg a lot better unit and more versital.15 September 2014 at 3:10 pm #85565Allso look under the heading Saw Bench…
You will geg a lot better unit and more versital.17 September 2014 at 2:11 am #89031Hi Frank,
Thank you for your suggestion. I have never seen anyone in Australia use a saw bench, but it looks useful and I might make that as another project as it looks a lot easier to make (albeit more wood) without those complicated compound angles.
The thing that surprises me is that most saw horse videos omit the compound angle of the legs which splay both backwards and sideways giving the saw horse prodigious stability on any surface.I hope to get time to finish my first prototype saw horse this weekend and I’ll post some photos.
Cheers,
Maurice17 September 2014 at 2:29 am #89045If you want a challenge, have a look at this one.
http://thecarpentryway.blogspot.com/2013/02/french-connection-9.html17 September 2014 at 7:58 am #89307Hi Greg,
Very interesting design for a skilled craftsman with the time and inclination. I’m not a craftsman, just a plodder trying to get my dexterity to a level where I can make a mortice and tenon that I don’t have to be ashamed of.
I am usually good for a challenge, but to coin an American expression “holy guacamole”. That would be a great exercise in woodworking, but it would take me ages to complete. I’ll wait till I’m retired (who knows when, as they keep raising the retirement age here in Australia).
Thank you for the link, it is very interesting reading.Regards,
Maurice18 September 2014 at 1:02 am #90809Yep, that thing is way above my head. It’s a pretty interesting system of joinery and drawing to arrive at how to cut each piece.
18 September 2014 at 4:23 pm #91841Only the Franch would make that. Boy its a maze but I bet its strong and worked from all sides if I had the room I would build it.
Frankj18 September 2014 at 4:44 pm #91852The angel is not a fixed rule. Take a 2×4 set the end on the floor move it in and out till you find a angel that looks good for you. I took a rule to mine the top bar is a 2×6 notched for the 2x
4 the legs are 31 long. At the bottom its 22″ wide the angel at the top is 10 deg. Some fokes let the legs drop at 90 on one side. This gets the legs out of the way for sawing. Most saw benches are made this way.19 September 2014 at 5:40 am #92646Hi Frank,
Thank you for your suggestions. I will try a few methods for getting the angles right, yours sounds very practical and I’m sure going to try it.
On the question of straight legs, I have a couple of straight legged sawhorses, but I’ve found that they are not as stable on uneven ground. That is why I cannot use them on my garden project.
I have watched Paul Sellers video on making sawhorses and it is almost identical to traditional sawhorses used in the building trade here in Australia. The only difference I can see is that Mr Sellers beam is recessed with the same angle, whilst the Australian type has the outside edge angled and the inside edge at 90 degrees.
I’ll try it this weekend and report back. -
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