877 days ago
by Sailor |
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Here are some folding sawhorses that I built a few months back and added them as a project. I had recorded the building process but was unable to get the files off of my camera to edit them due to a lost software, but I bought a new software so here is the video!
You can find some more information like the cutting layout, dimensions, hardware and some more detailed photos on my blog, The Woodworking Trip.
I really like these sawhorses and I have built myself two sets. One that I use...
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373 days ago
by steliart |
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Check out this sawhorse design video. I think you will find it at least very interestingCLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO
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1368 days ago
by Innovator |
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I have always cut my green logs either on the ground or on top of other logs. Well a few weeks ago I was cutting a log and it decided it wanted to dance a little bit. Now I don’t care if a log dances or not I just don’t want it to move while I have a moving 20” chainsaw in it.
This got me thinking there has to be a way to hold the work safely for cutting. So I took to the internet looking for sawhorses for chainsaws. I did find a few commercial units but they were all listed in E...
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434 days ago
by danzaland |
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Okay so it wasn’t 72 degrees, but it was close. Early March and a 60degree plus day in Rochester, NY, you want to be outside. SO I was. I squared up a round log.Video
Log Overview
I used my Logosol Timber Jig and a 2×6 rail I built (seen here).
Close Up 1
Close Up 2
So now with my circular saw and a hand saw I plan on cutting this 8×8 down to 4×6’s and trying to make sawhorses.
BTW: Can anyone name the movie this entry is quoting?
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962 days ago
by JamieH |
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Well, I began day two of building a pair of sawhorses from the Matthew Teague “Projects for your Shop” book. I posted day 1’s progress under the Woodworking Skill Share forum yesterday. Just realized this might be better in blog form.
I got the legs cut to length with proper angles cut for top assembly, assembled the top, and screwed the legs in before I ran out of daylight. I still have end braces, stretchers, and a shelf to add. I still am having wood screw joinery issu...
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971 days ago
by EMVarona |
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When ideas come to mind, I find it imperative that I should try to work it out. The least I can do is to make a sketch or visualization of what that idea is all about, lest it goes to waste. The lowly saw horse is an example. There are many versions, from simple to complex. Some are easy to build the others require more advance skills. My version I would think is fairly easy.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edurink/sets/72157624855604149/detail/
The illustrations were done with “Wing...
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1020 days ago
by AnnaEA |
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Headed down stairs after dinner this evening to start building my sawhorses.
I started by sorting out the lumber and selecting which faces I wanted on top of the I-beams. Oops the first – I need to finish the cuts on two of the legs – they should be 30” and they measure 36” – I forgot to cut trim the ends. Well, I need more practice handsawing anyways.
With the very bored help of my daughter, I built the I-beams.
Next up, nailing on the legs. I ...
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1705 days ago
by lethentymill |
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In some ways I would be proud to have “Bodger” on my CV. The gentlemen who made chair spindles in the beech woods in and around Buckinghamshire when Charles Dickens was writing were called Bodgers. It’s hard to see where the connection with “botching a job” comes from but there probably isn’t one, apart from the fact that they come from the same, older, root. Bodgers were not “botchers” or “butchers” or “cowboys” even, they were skilled woodsmen who cleaved beech wood and then turned the...
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1019 days ago
by AnnaEA |
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I finished my sawhorses this afternoon—I have to say that having a sawhorse to use made building the second sawhorse much easier. It was also educational. I learned not to nail the sawhorse to the floor, and that the stringers should be nailed on the outside so that when you put your foot up on them to saw something they stay attached to the sawhorse and don’t pop off.
This one was nice – I was in the zone. It went together like a dream, in very close to the titular...
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