Bench Hook for Japanese Saw

Nice bench!

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

Thanks. It is a commercial bench. One of these days I will build my own.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Bingo! Nice job,
Phil

Nice job Wayne.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Shoot Wayne, I thought I was finished!
Nice job!
I am wondering if I should run a recess in mine to allow for the saw to break through without touching the hook? ( less wear and tear on the unsharpenable blade)
What do you think Wayne?

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Great Idea, Wayne.” Concave or convex it would fit either sex, My gosh, what a wonderful thing!”

-- Thos. Angle, Jordan Valley, Oregon

Ah, this refined guys from the city that need all the luxuries available to them… tsch tsch! ;o)

Jokes apart, nice job Wayne. Now, I work with the ”dozuki” in the traditional way the ”daikusan” do: sitting on the tatami or on a low stool and holding the workpiece within my feet most of the time…

OK, it could be very romantic and fancy seen from across the pond but I don’t like at all to work in such a way. Alas, I don’t have a dedicated workshop space so you got to do what you got to do.

Those dowels add some nice refinement to a utility piece. Nice job! Anyone that works with smaller pieces should make one of these. They make life, oh so much, easier.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

this is great!!!

-- wood is good

Thanks a lot for posting this great too, Wayne!

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

Looks good, Wayne!

-- Jim, Sacramento, Calif.

Pretty smart project! But no wonder-I see the IAMS bag, and practical as a COSTCO shopper it looks like.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://americancraftsmanworkshop.com

Great, thanks for posting this. I’ve got a ryoba that I use all the time, but I haven’t gotten around to building a bench hook for it yet. (Don’t tell anyone, but I’ve been using my shooting board rotated 180 degrees as a bench hook!)

-- Eric at http://adventuresinwoodworking.com

Whats that thing in the back that looks like a home made chisel with no handle? If it is a home made chisel how did you make it?

-- Mauricio - Woodstock, GA - "Confusion is the Womb of Learning, with utter conviction being it's Tomb" Prof. T.O. Nitsch

Mauricio, it is an antique marking knife. I have a couple of them in different sizes. I believe that I found them on the UK eBay site 3-4 years ago…

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov