I have had hand saws hanging in a variety of locations. When I added three Veritas saws I decided to throw together a saw till for easy access storage near the work bench. The Veritas saws had a handle grip shape that did not allow for simple pegboard hanging.
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I started by looking on the Internet for some ideas. Then I took each saw that I wanted to store and looked at how that might be accomplished for each individual saw. I came up with a design that would store the Veritas saws
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| The basic unit was put togeter with 3/4 inch Baltic birch plywood with 1/2 inch MDF rear supports. On the right side, for the Veritas saws, I used mahogany for the saw spacing rack. I cut the slots on the bandsaw with a chisel making the deep cut. An old oak tool handle was used for the saw hilt rest .
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For the left side I need variable spacing so I used 1/2 inch x 1/2 inch oak stock and assembled a grid. I ripped all of the thin pieces using a rockler cutoff jig on the table saw. This allows you to cut thin pieces off on the left side of the blade to reduce kick back issues. |
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The two parallel edges had to fit snugly
between the side panels. To make sure that the fit was tight I cut these
two pieces overly long and then I used the shooting board to plane the
ends until they were perfect fits. |
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I mass cut the cross pieces
on the chop saw with a quick block setup to speed the cuts. |
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Then I glued the oak spacers together using a 23 gauge pin nailer. I varied the spaces at 1/8, 1/2, and one inches using brass bars and 1/2/3 blocks.
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Then I installed the oak grid into the left
side of the till and glued it with pins and screws. |
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After putting oak banding on all of the
veneer ply edges I sanded all corners to ease them and the unit was
ready to hang. |
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I screwed the till to the wall in the southeast corner of the shop in a location that has room for the saws on the left to hang freely. In the left section: In the right section:
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This corner is predominately hand tools. The woodworking bench and plane till are directly to the left.
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| Update: 2014
Left side: 2 japanese saws, 2 Western panel, 2 flush cut, Gramercy sash, Bad Axe large tenon Right side: Veritas crosscut, 2 Veritas rip cut dovetails, Lie Nielsen tapered dovetail and progress cut dovetail saws |
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