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    Default Post your saw tills!

    My house is full of tools again due to the lockdown in WA and with some forced leave coming up I'm going to start building some stuff to store them. I'm going to start with a saw till as I feel it should be pretty simple and will get me ready for building my plane storage.

    My idea is pretty simple right now. It will be mostly open back apart from a few stretchers between the two sides of the till, then a piece of thick dowel at the bottom front for the saw handles to rest on. I have a few Japanese saws as well but figure they can hang on hooks off to the side or epoxy some magnets into the stretchers.

    If you want to share photos or designs it would be much appreciated, I need some inspiration. Picked up some Black Walnut for everything but the dowel saw rest which will be Tasmanian oak. Mortise and tenon joinery all round, saw rest will be wedged. Only got power tools and my hand tools for this one so excited to start pushing some planes over timber!

    Edit: it will store the following if that helps!

    1 x 26" Rip saw
    1 x Tenon saw
    2 x Carcass saws
    1 x Japanese Ryoba
    1 x Japanese Dozuki
    + room for more saws.

    I'm a realist, this will probably need to house three times the number of saws eventually [emoji1]

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    Well it's probably not a saw till in the manner that you are thinking but I got this idea from the net and it works a treat and very space efficient.
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    Thanks for sharing! How do they stay up there? My eyes aren't what they used to be. Only 34 too [emoji23]

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    Quote Originally Posted by bueller View Post
    Thanks for sharing! How do they stay up there? My eyes aren't what they used to be. Only 34 too [emoji23]
    Your eyes would have to be pretty good to work it out from my picture! Believe it or not just a piece of dowel. Here is a link to where I got the idea from.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6txqZBMC0U

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    Be careful when planning capacity. Murphy says that hand tools, particularly saws and planes, expand to fit available space!

    I have two tills, one for backsaws and one for larger saws.





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    If you need a 'temporary' holder, these hooks do the job for closed grip saws. I say 'temporary' because making a saw till has been on the cards... for about a year now. 2020 could be the year it gets done!

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    OK here is mine. Think I had posted on it some years back but could not remember what thread it was in.
    You are right that you need to have some space for more saws later.
    The till is made from recycled pine and hung on the wall with a french cleat. That got me thinking so I built in a french cleat to hang the small saws rack in the till. I can then alter the layout a bit. I put a few planes in the lower shelf as the till is close by the bench and of course it manages to collect other bits and pieces.
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    fast and loose

    just shoved under the bench


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    Huon I made one of those saw tills this afternoon. Not as neat as yours but it works.60802355735__99357566-D146-4B32-A7B4-0F398CB236F8.jpg
    I am learning, slowley.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pagie View Post
    Huon I made one of those saw tills this afternoon. Not as neat as yours but it works.60802355735__99357566-D146-4B32-A7B4-0F398CB236F8.jpg
    Paige, the main thing is that it works. I used my brad nailer to put the fronts on

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    Great design. I will make a neater one. Brad nailer is a good idea. The screws were splitting the timber.
    I am learning, slowley.

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    Okay I've got some black walnut squared up.



    Some sapwood reared its ugly head which meant I had to switch up my plans but I think I'll be able to salvage the side panels. The stretchers may become white oak or alternatively I may attempt to include some of the sapwood as an accent. I've got some more black walnut but wanted to keep it for another project especially considering the stretchers will be mostly hidden.

    Absolutely in love with black walnut right now. Always wanted to work with it and it has not disappointed.

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    You are ahead of the game once you acknowledge that it is highly likely the complement of saws will increase over time. Then you have to decide whether you want an "open" saw till or a "closed" saw till. Open is quick and east to build such as HPFs version, just to select the first one up. They have a more limited ability to increase in size to meet demand. The incorporation of sides (preferably square sides) to the till allows the till to be closed in at some stage in the future even if you don't want to do it right at this moment. Immediately the addition of doors allows more space. If the doors have some depth this allows even more storage.

    As you can see I have almost immediately moved towards a closed in till. This style has two more advantages apart from increased capacity. It offers more protection from the elements, if that is an issue, and it can also offer storage for other tools too. I have two saw tills. One is very utilitarian, made up from scrap (and warped) packing case plywood and the other is from recycled cypress pine lining boards and only a little better in quality of build. Both came about by absolute necessity rather than the desire to have a beautiful piece of furniture. Consequently they are functional more than aesthetic. This one is 500mm wide, but holds quite a few saws.

    Saw Till in Cypress Pine.JPG

    The full list of pix can be seen in this thread (post #188):

    A Crazy Saw Service


    Since the pix in that thread were taken I think I have added another four saws! I think there could be about seventeen saws in it now.

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    Taken several years ago ...



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    I couldn't rememberwhere I had stored the pix of the other saw till, but in a moment of inspiration(epiphany ?) I remembered. The object as I mentioned before was purely storage (at minimal cost) so I scrounged up material from scrap heaps. The only purchases were the piano hinges and the magnets incorporating a screw hole. The only vague pretension to glamour is the 1" stainless steel rod on which the saws sit.

    The main section. I no longer have the small saw sitting on the back wall (It is in the other cabinet). Two large mitre saws sit on either side of the side walls.
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    The left hand door. One more small backsaw has been added since this shot was taken

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    The right hand door with more mitre saws and one larger backsaw. The saw on the left has a non standard replacement handle so that will get moved. All these saws are bona fide Simonds.

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    If you go down the door path, make sure there is sufficient room to open the door and there isn't a large structural metal beam in the way.

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    The magnets are very handy in conjunction with a timber button at the handle end.

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    Did I mention it is not a thing of beauty?

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