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Added photos + 15 new plans! See just the updates here >>It’s often the woodworker’s first project. You often inherit them from woodworkers who’ve passed. No matter where they come from they are the unsung heroes of many woodworking projects. I found a great thread over at woodnet (show me your saw horses) that got me hunting down all the sawhorses I could find. I’ve corralled a good mess of them here for you – 25 (now 37) different plans. If you’ve built any of these I’d appreciate your thoughts. If you prefer the metal/plastic collapsible kind let me know what brand and why. The sections are as follows: 1) Celebrity Saw Horses 3) Best Sawhorse Idea I Couldn’t Find Plans For 4) Sometimes You Need a Mobile Carpenter Bench, Not a Sawhorse 5) Your Basic and Free Sawhorse Plans 6) Space Saving Sawhorses 7) Sawhorses for Sheet Goods 1) Celebrity Saw Horses: If a woodworking celebrity designed it or uses it… it has to be good, right?
Well, you’ll have to be the judge of that. I just thought it would be fun to break them out of the pack :) Norm Abram’s Picnic Table and Saw Horses Why did they put the sawhorse and picnic table together? Who’s gonna pay 6 bucks for sawhorse plans? That’s more than the cost of materials! Anyways, there are folks who have built this style of sawhorse and love it. This is the only non-free plan I link to. Roy Underhill’s Sawhorse Design (PDF) Underhill’s one of the original galoots. His sawhorse is solid and suitable for corded tool users too – it’s based on a sawhorse he found in his parents’ basement. Chris Schwarz is the editor of Woodworking Magazine. He’s a big handtool aficionado too, a galoot if I understand correctly :) His Sawbench is well suited for hand tool users: Free Construction Drawings for the 2008 Sawbench. Schwarz’s sawbench is similar to this Sawing Trestle plan from the 1900s. This is just a patent, so don’t take the idea and make millions from it.
That said, it might be a good influence on your design if you’re crafty enough to figure out how to build one. 3) Best Sawhorse Idea I Couldn’t Find Plans For: SawPony – shorter saw horses for when you want to put a foot or a leg up on the work you’re cutting to help hold it down. I guess you could just make shorter saw horse legs… Here’s where I read about them: show me your saw horses 4) Sometimes You Need a Mobile Carpenter Bench, Not a Sawhorse: Are you using your sawhorses as mobile carpenter benches… setting up your chop saw on them, etc… It might be that you really need a mobile carpenter bench. Mobile Carpenter’s Bench from Tim Carter Or… maybe you just want to store more tools on your sawhorses. Check out these sweet sawhorses: Tool Tote Sawhorses. 5) Your Basic and Free Sawhorse Plans: Sometimes vanilla is the best flavor. These sawhorses are straight ahead, no nonsense sawhorses that you will have for the next 25 years.
So pick your plan carefully ;) The Cheapest, Easiest, Ugliest, Most Functional Saw Horse Known to Mankind I’ll give it easiest, but I’m not so sure about ugliest… a functional, strong and elegant sawhorse The World’s Best $6 Sawhorse? Scrapwood Saw Horse Plans – Metric Vintage, 1991 Sawhorse Plans from Popular Mechanics Sawhorse Classic from Fine Woodworking 6) Space Saving Sawhorses: Sometimes space is at a premium. These sawhorses will politely fold up or stack up and get out of the way when they’re not in use. The “Richard”: The Ultimate Knock-Down Sawhorse Foldaway Vise Table & Sawhorse (PDF) Sawhorse – Knockdown Workstation Accessories Simon Shea Stackable Sawhorse Plans Light Folding, Medium Folding, Heavy Fixed Sawhorse Plans 7) Sawhorses for Sheet Goods: Sometimes you need a little extra help with those sheet goods. These sawhorses will gladly and ably pull more than their own weight. I didn’t know which category to put these sawhorses in, but I knew I needed to include them.
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