Back Saw storage

[Mr_P]

OK I'll admit I have too many saws and I've decided I need to contain my problem. In an ideal world I'd make a proper saw till but hoping to move this year or next so a proper till isn't going to happen. I do however have big drawers under my bench and I'm planning on converting two of them for saws.

Daft question but what is the ideal way for them to sit ?

Should the weight be on the teeth or on the brass backs ? Some of the proper saw tills I've seen have a slope and it looks like the weight is on the un-toothed part of the blade under the handle.

Thanks,
Carl

 

[undergroundhunter]

All my says are on hooks and dowels, this looks simple but effective http://www.sawmillcreek.org/picture.php?albumid=264&pictureid=3753. I'm intending to put something like this https://overthewireless.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/dsc_0270.jpg into the tool chest I'm building, the only difference will be that I would cut the kerfs deeper so the saw sits on the back instead of the teeth.

Matt

 

[DTR]

My backsaws live in a Schwarz-style saw till in a chest, like Undergroundhunter's above.

I also have a till on the wall:

 

[Trafalgar]

OK I'll admit I have too many saws and I've decided I need to contain my problem. In an ideal world I'd make a proper saw till but hoping to move this year or next so a proper till isn't going to happen. I do however have big drawers under my bench and I'm planning on converting two of them for saws.

Daft question but what is the ideal way for them to sit ?

Should the weight be on the teeth or on the brass backs ? Some of the proper saw tills I've seen have a slope and it looks like the weight is on the un-toothed part of the blade under the handle.

Thanks,
Carl

They should not be stored lying flat in a drawer. They'd be better off hanging on a nail, by the handle, with the blade not touching the wall.

 

[Vann]

I knocked up this saw till (mostly out of scraps) when my accumulation of backsaws, awaiting reviving, got out of hand.

Due to the presence of the light tubes and garage door runner, I couldn't put a hinged door on the front. Instead the door slides down to open (a bit of a pain, but one of very few options).

The saw handles rest on a piece of dowel (a broken broom handle IIRC). The saw blades rest on their teeth in slots cut in a piece of 4"x2" (or 2"x4" as you would say over there).

Cheers, Vann.

 

[RogerP]

............. They'd be better off hanging on a nail, by the handle, with the blade not touching the wall.

... and that's how I keep mine. :shock:

 

[AndyT]

If you make something like Vann's till, but horizontal in a drawer, if the drawer is big enough you could fit a second row of saws, the other way round. Not that I have any sympathy with anyone who has too many saws... :-"

 

[Mr_P]

Thanks all, plenty of food for thought.

Will try and stay clear of ebay but its so hard to resist.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111694798722? ... EBIDX%3AIT

Tuner, Mathieson and Lloyd Davies.

Prepped some timber yesterday and think I'll try and make a dowel today, thanks Vann.