Simple Sawhorse

[stubtoe]

Hi,

I had the idea this weekend of building a couple of sawhorses thinking that this would be a relatively simple exercise...

Now either I'm being a bit of a dunce or making a sawhorse isn't quite as simple as I first thought! :?

I found this old post on the forum https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/post522279.html?hilit=sawhorse#p522279 but that just links to the following page http://owdman.co.uk/howto/howto2.htm with the most complicated diagram I think I have ever seen describing the various angles needed to get the splay of the legs correct.

Can anyone help with a simpler plan for a sawhorse?

Thanks,

Jonny

 

[9fingers]

You don't have to use the projection method. Jacob gives two other methods in that link.
Just use either of those instead.
If you can't follow the trigonometry approach then use similar triangles to go from dimensions to marking the cut lines.
if you want a novel approach but not quite saw horses, search posts by "the tiddles" in this forum for a knock down design made from sheet materials.
He gives full plans here sore-hoarses-mkii-now-with-added-plans-t44761.html
Bob

 

[Jacob]

The method I quote is particularly difficult, but a useful exercise if you want to go down that route.
Plenty of alternatives here
Simplest of all is four holes drilled in a top piece, with four legs hammered in.

 

[hanser]

Hi Jonny

One of the first 'projects' I made was a sawhorse. A few pieces of 2x2 ,3x2 and a few screws. Now, some 32 years later it still gets pulled out of the garage for all sorts.

Anyhow, the moral is don't make it too complicated. *** packet design to meet the requirement, budget and your skillset. Then crack on. It doesn't have to be too pretty it's a .....sawhorse.

Good luck with the project.

 

[stubtoe]

Cheers chaps. You're right, I just need to get on and build it! Watch this space...

 

[Benchwayze]

Cheers chaps. You're right, I just need to get on and build it! Watch this space...

Stub,

I'd build a matching pair while I was at it.
Make 'em stackable keep 'em indoors and they should see you out.

John

 

[lanemaux]

If you go to the Woodwrights shop home page at PBS and go to projects, (I believe ) you will find Roys plans. Very basic and doable.

 

[knappers]

Here :

http://www.pbs.org/woodwrightsshop/howto/images/e2101sawhorse.pdf

Si.

 

[lanemaux]

Danke Knappers. Did not have the link just at hand and the dinner bell was sounding. When I came back you had served it up already. Thnx again.

 

[Alf]

I made a couple of these some years ago with the intention of making something "better" down the road - and still haven't bothered. Very easy to make, and imo the wide top is heaps more useful than the traditional variety. fwiw.

 

[xy mosian]

At a time when I was cutting quite a lot of sheet stuff, without table saw, I made a horse with a slot down the middle to support both edges of the cut. Just over 4ft long, it worked a treat.
xy

 

[EddieJ]

Just be lazy and use these. http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-sa ... prod20298/

 

[Mr Ed]

Some detail in an old post here that may help

saw-bench-t38914.html

Ed