How to build Awesome Sawhorses
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Building strong, lightweight, customizable, knockdown saw horses. These are excellent sawhorses that can adapt to many different tasks and knockdown into a small footprint. You can design your own patterns and accessories making them fit your specific needs.
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Very nice build. Also, congratulations on a great video where you actually demonstrate what is being made up front without having to wade through 15 minutes of sawing, drilling and gluing before we find out what it is. Held my attention all the way through and will definitely have a go at making these in future. 👍 👍 👍
Perfect! I need a break down model and this is the first one that came up. Thanks!
Glad you like it, Thanks for watching!😁
Nice design!
As you mentioned, you can put other stretchers on this to suit your needs so I would modify the stretcher in these ways. Take the off-cuts from the legs and once the sawhorse is assembled, screw and glue them to the stretcher on either side of the slots to tighten up and reinforce the connection to the legs. Since you could push them tighter against the leg, you could cure any slop that occurred in cutting the slot or any that might develop over time.
Take the other off-cuts, cut them to size, double them up and screw them to another length of plywood that could drop down over the stretcher like the top of an I-beam.
I would also make a lower shelf that hooks into the bottom two holes in the legs and works against their tendency to splay.
A bit thicker and heavier but maybe worth it?
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Yeah, My Fam had internet and cell phones in the 90's....
Pagers were the size of garage door openers, phones were like suitcases, and modems gave landline callers a busy signal....
Good times!
Thank you I'm a carpenter and have been looking for a nice collapsible setup for my daily arsenal
Haha. Nice entry for the strength test. Definitley going to use this design and adapt it for a portable mitre stand. Thanks.
Some acrobatics at the very end.
I like the circle templates. I think I should Aquire some of them.
I got some fish tank stands made from steel from my grandfathers house..
I guess when you contract and carry equipment it builds up and you are always changing things to make room.
And doesn't matter what you always carry a set amount. The times you think you don't need something and leave it home are the times you do need them.
I love these saw horses, so practical and good looking too! The best part of the vid is your James Bond / parkour move at the end. That was unexpected and awesome. I appreciate you posting this and your other useful vids too. You seem like a good dude.
Thank you!! Appreciate the kind words, glad you like the saw horses!!😁
thumbs up for the rolling over the table
Awesome saw horse idea with very little foot print, going to build for out-feed supports coming off my table saw with a couple of slight changes to suit my needs, thanks for the inspiration!! Hahaha loved the woodworkers ninja moves at the end, I won’t be doing that 👍🏻
I like them, nice straight forward design!
I built a set over the Easter weekend. All went well except that the notches were a bit loose, so it was a little shaky. I guess the notches have to be snug for better/best stability.
Great idea though. THANKS!!
Awesome!! Glad you built them!! Yes a tight fit is better!😁👍🏻
Now this is a great concept. Definitely plan to make ASAP
@@thebuilditchannel8609 I dunno where to do that but you'll have to take my word for it - I finished a simplified version today. Big newbie here so it's real rough but it was able to support my body weight and doesn't wobble at all!
Simple and sweet, good job!
Very nice, thanks for sharing
Very nice video..... Nice to see what we're building up front.
I think though if I build these I'd put a removeable stretcher of a 2x4 across the middle ... Legs looked like they wanted to splay when weight put on
excellent video friend. do you have the video of the table manufacture? looks fantastic!!!
Great design. A while back I played around with an idea that a old boss had told me about. He new a design where you could use one full sheet of 3/4" plywood and cut out the parts for a two person table. He said it was great for lunch and all else to provide a place to sit down. He also said you could hold the all the scrap generated in one hand. It was a knockdown design with no fasteners. I never could figure it out.
Thanks!! That sounds interesting!
I build it! design is nice! My initial idea was a portable and light workbench. And it is portable and light. Just with few hours of sawing, planing and sanding... I noticed the legs bend under light pressure. A bit anoying, so I will reinforce them.
Great design and awesome video tutorial. Thanks!
Thank you, glad you liked it!!😁👍🏻
Excellent
Excelente, adorei o trabalho.
Parabéns.
Eng Anderson Martins
Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
Awesome I’m going to have a go and make a set
Nice!! They work really well!!
If you don't need to break it down often, like once every few months, can I just leave the pieces as rectangles and just cut out a hole for gripping them? Would it be stronger too and have more surface area on side supports for supporting a small tabletop. Also, would planing flat the top and bottom of the side pieces make it more secure or attaching strips of solid wood and flatten their corners so the side pieces rest flat on the floor and the tabletop would rest flat too or it doesn't matter?
Great idea and great work!
i'd put pocket screws holes going up on the stretcher so I could screw a flat 2x4 as the top work surface
i like everything you did here and half way through building my own. I need to know your legal representative before i try your acrobatic ending. i may be too old and heavy........
Congratulations very good project and Thanks for sharing. I have a question, what is the function of the hollow cutouts? Is it just aesthetic? or what use will it give them? Thanks and regards from Monterrey Mexico.
Building Guru Many thanks.
Looks like it is both aesthetic and for reducing weight. Incredible design, I'm gonna build one for my new shop.
I really like the design. How about making and cutting out the first 1 like you did then drop a template bit in your router and use it to cut the 2nd 1 out? Exact match and should be a little faster.
Darn! You beat me to the comment. Good to show the version for limited experience, though it is a good case for teaching pattern routing. I use 1/4” MDF, sand all the edges true and smooth, and then seal and toughen it with a couple of coats of 1 lb. cut shellac to make my patterns. I love your design and will knock out a couple directly. Great video. Thanks.
Very nice design and build. Gives me some ideas on some possible add-ons, as well. What is the brand of the trammel setup you used for the radius lines? I WANT one.
@@thebuilditchannel8609 Thanks. I will check it out. My existing pieces are much too wimpy to yield accurate results
Nice work.
Amazing!!!
I invented these saw horses back in 1989 while working as a remodeler in San Manuel, az.
Also as the inventor of these saw horses mine were not this fancy but they had the same configuration.
I'm really loving this design. I'm putting together my own Paulk bench in the next few weeks and might go with these over his original horses. I do, however, worry about side-to-side racking with these in comparison to other designs. Do you feel these are little weaker in that area? Do you think combining the bottom cutouts into one large cutout and adding another notch for a 2nd spanner piece would be a feasible solution without hurting the integrity of the side piece? It looks like the horses used on your bench have a much larger top spanner and extends further down the sides, which probably provides more racking protection. Maybe that's the way to go...
@@thebuilditchannel8609 Hey, thanks for the insight! I completely missed the bench horses being shorter, which makes sense given the height of the Paulk tops. I guess I need to look at those plans and figure out how much shorter they should be compared to the 30in shown in the video. You're a good dude. So many other channels rush through their instructional videos without showing the real details, while you took the time to explain with measurements and methods. I hope you stick around.
@@thebuilditchannel8609 I spent the day making these sawhorses, and man you undersold these things. I copied the legs as shown and made two sets of tops with some slight deviations from yours (taller with deeper leg slots, 1 set for a paulk bench, and 1 set to accept 2x4s for a quick n dirty bench). What's really awesome about this design is that it's better than Paulk's in nearly every way. Two complete horses require just 1 sheet of 3/4 while Paulk's takes 2 sheets of 1/2. Paulk's horses require screws and straps while these don't. I can't say for sure, but I'd bet these are stronger as well. Just awesome. Thank you. I got a couple pictures on imgur if you care to see. imgur.com/a/pzRA7GQ
Design bonito, funcional e facil de fazer. parabéns. mais um inscrito no canal.
Nice
Best saw horse. Is there a way to lock the joinery together when in use?
Thanks! In the video it shows how they lock together.
Awesome, lite weight, movable. How about the build for your workbench. That looks great also. Perfect for apartment or condo living. Thanks
hey man, i'm planning to make sawhorse like this in my next video. can i use this idea? of course i will mention your channel and this video!
Those look really nice. I like the collapsing idea. Wouldn’t they be stronger if you went with the plywood grain in the opposite direction?
Building Guru strength axis is with the grain .Just trying to be helpful🙂👍
Awesome video. Plan to make a couple of sets at different heights. Can you provide specs/dimensions on the workbench top? I don't have a lot of room and this workbench top on these sawhorses is ideal; interested in building one. Thanks!
@@thebuilditchannel8609 Thank you
Vc teria o projeto em PDF?
It needs slots in it to lay a 2x4 in flat or up and down
Very nice - do you have a plan/PDF for the cut-outs available by any chance?
@@thebuilditchannel8609 I just made one if you want I can email it to you and you can distribute it as you wish.
@@thebuilditchannel8609 I have it in .ai, .pdf, and .svg. Let me see what I can post.
@@CJMorin can i have the template as well? I have looked for ages for a good saw horse template and this one makes most sense
@@milenkadiyski6662 I was not able to upload it and share it with Building Guru . I would prefer to have him share it however he wishes since this is his design.
Also I made it to be a full size multi page print out, you would need to cut and paste them together. I could go back and add annotations with sizes and distances but I would still want it to be distributed by Building Guru.
Building Guru are you willing to share what @CJ Morin has made?
What the hell is that gonna hold. My coffee ?
You're a coffee
@@thebuilditchannel8609 That comment gave me the best laugh I've had in days! also, I love the design... building four of them this weekend.
Muy buen trabajo gracias 👌👌👌
I'll give you an A for effort. But thats all.
Pencil hard to see, a black "sharpie" would have been better to use for your video. Like your idea though.
That's not a sawhorse. A sawhorse as the name suggests is used to support wood or timber whilst you saw or cut it. What you've constructed are trestle's. There's a distinct difference!
There pretty.... But I'd rather save time spend £20 in screw fix and buy ones that fold up I'm literally 1 second. Great job though
Did anyone get pdf plans?
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Dude! Early on AOL and it's competitors like Prodigy, CompuServe, GEnie and even MSN were singular dial-up services that were not interconnected. You logged on to your chosen provider's network and you stayed there.
Those did not look strong at all.
Hi there i built these and they work great. I drilled 22 mm holes each piece so they line up and i can hang them from a couple of pegs on side of my work bench