Thread: Saw Storage

Paul

Just thinking we might have to get you to put up a show and tell thread of the favourite saws .

If I get time later today I will post some of my storage "solutions." Don't be concerned, you won't feel awkward.

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by seanz

You got me Derek. "Ooh, what's that? Oh, it's a poster."

WRONG

It's his next project

some excellent storage ideas gents.

I have to make one asap

I stress that all these methods are temporary until I make up a smart saw till. Originally the new till was going to have a tambour front. I even purchased a special router bit set to fashion the slats. Then I twigged it was going to seriously reduce the amount of space I would have to stow saws.

For example, with conventional doors there is space to store saws in that they become a fourth wall, but not with a roll top.

Anyhow, here is the main, albeit tempoarary, till made from recycled plas ply (concrete form ply) and old gal pipe. I have not got around to putting the doors on yet.

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There is also a small door (make that an opening as I that is another door I have to put in place. it's sitting on the floor of the till) on the RHS, which gives access to the saws (Docking saw and two back saws) at the back which sit of the floor of the till

The till is normally full but some saws have been removed for an exhibition I have coming up in November in the local Millmerran library. The sides of the till have a couple of large mitre saws. The saw at the bottom is a 30" docking saw and was too long to stand upright so it has it's very own spot. The back wall normally houses four back saws, but again two have been removed in preparation for the exhibition.

Some of the exhibition saws ready for cataloguing in a sophisticated box:


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Some of my saws to be sorted in another exquisite box:
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Some also-rans in their own purpose made box:

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Saws to be restored sharpened and resold ( to help pay for the saws above ). They sit four and five deep on 150mm batten screws with a piece of old hose pipe for protection of the handle.

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I also am storing three of my son's saws while he is off travelling and the Simonds mitre saw was too big to fit in the boxes.

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There are a few others floating around the place, like the two I found I had left outside in the rain after using them on the house yesterday before I went in to work . Not very smart at all!

Regards
Paul

I quite like the boxes. My current storage for most is in the big cardboard boxes they've shipped in, with more cardboard after the first layer to allow a second in the same box.

I had come to the conclusion that a drawer system that would hold saws vertically (well, axially horizontal) like your boxes will be the best idea for a "saw library".

The chest is very nice for a few. The grey "saw suitcase" I have has it's own charm - but only fits ten I think.

The set of drawers with them lying flat is very inconvenient as far as access goes.

So much to doooo.

Cheers,
Paul

Paul

Storage is a perennial problem. The "specialised" storage boxes were made from timber (pine) recycled packing crates at work. They were happy for somebody to take it away. I originally put the vertical corner pieces on the outside, thinking they would get in the way on the inside, but I would have been better off placing them inside and making sure a 26" saw would fit btween. That maximises how many saws placed head to toe will fit in the box and this would be very important in your case.

One good point apart from being extremely cheap is that they stack on top of each other fairly well. However they do weigh quite a bit when full.

I like your suitcase storage. Good for transporting saws to show them off.

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

Paul

Storage is a perennial problem. The "specialised" storage boxes were made from timber (pine) recycled packing crates at work. They were happy for somebody to take it away. I originally put the vertical corner pieces on the outside, thinking they would get in the way on the inside, but I would have been better off placing them inside and making sure a 26" saw would fit btween. That maximises how many saws placed head to toe will fit in the box and this would be very important in your case.

One good point apart from being extremely cheap is that they stack on top of each other fairly well. However they do weigh quite a bit when full.

I like your suitcase storage. Good for transporting saws to show them off.

Regards
Paul

I try to restrict my saws to just users so my storage needs are pretty simple. Interestingly despite being only a couple of hundred meters from the ocean I don't have a big rust issue in my little garage.

Paul

can i ask how many saws you have?

Cheers
Stewart

Originally Posted by bunya pine

Paul

can i ask how many saws you have?

Cheers
Stewart

Over to you McGee .

Regards
Paul

I'm sure you were the particular looney in question

... but ... putting the last two inbound boxes together to rearrange storage came to 75 saws.

There's been 16 boxes ... which would make a rough estimate at say 500.

Ummm ... wh ... why do you ask?

Paul

Originally Posted by pmcgee

I'm sure you were the particular looney in question


Paul

Hey, who are you calling a looney? .

Actually, I don't think I can in any way compete with you and I don't know how many saws. Probably about 100. I plan to keep about 50.

What I can say is that when sorting through them earlier this evening (I put up some more pegs for hanging saws realising I could use one of the doors of my shipping container as a wall), I came across two or three saws and thought "Holly farmers (or a vernacular suggesting the same) I didn't know that was there. What a find!" If the saws were not on the walls, I would be knee deep in them.

I still have to finalise a realistic, restoration plan, (something like two a week for the next three hundred years to allow for further acquisitions) and clearly I have to pay a little more attention to what I have got.


Does that help you Stewart? I suspected you meant me and not the other bloke, but I wasn't counting on him deflecting the request so successfully or so quickly. I think he has had more practice: About five times more practice.

Regards
Paul

Paul and Paul

I asked because based on your photos of the suggested storage techniques I figured you had a couple? Are they all sharp and ready to use? It sounds like you could make a "Game of Thrones" style throne with saws rather than with swords!

Cheers
Stewart

Stewart

In my case the intention is that all my "keepers" will be restored and in principle be users. At the moment, probably less than a fifth of the saws have been restored and sharpened: Around about half have been restored, but have not yet been sharpened.

The problem is time and the fact that the saws for resale tend to take priority. Unfortunately life doesn't exactly revolve around the restoration of handsaws and many other aspects of life insist on precedence!

Restoration is a long term project as are the storage cabinets as is the new shed and so it goes on. In the meantime the saws languish in their purpose built, but extraordinarily cheap, crates.

Also I had a quick count up of saws the other day after your inquiry. I may have misled you and I certainly made an error of judgement in my estimate. I lost count after I got to 160 as I had to troop around the place a bit ticking off the odds and sods. In addition I have about 25 bare saw plates, for which I am really looking forward to making up handles. I have been acquiring timbers and saw nuts for this purpose.

Regards
Paul

I like lots of tools (a) to use to the poor extent I have learnt up to this point, but also (b) for the effort and skill and accumulated practicality that went into their production and design. I like wickedly smart new things too, but often the old things are cheaper - and sometimes dirt cheap.


I've bought stanley planes and japanese planes and infill planes and transitional planes and moulding planes and many chisels (who hasn't) but the first really nice handsaw I got was from Australia, it was a Disston thumbhole ripsaw, it had pitting and rust on the toothline ... and it was $20.
It was also so beautiful ... I had it near my desk for a week or more just to pick it up ... and it cut really well. !!???
The rust around the toothline basically flaked off with some test usage and the metal under was sharp.

That was my push down the slippery slope ... I started off just wanting to get some D8s and more examples of the thumbhole model.

It may have gotten a little out of hand, from there ... perhaps ...

But I will always have an upper bound on my habit that I have not exceeded ... thanks for that Mike Stemple.
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I often say that for a fair number of saws, there aren't many repeats. I think I have less than 20 D-8 saws ... but many in the "D-8-style" of course.

I started getting interested in Atkins and Simonds precisely because they weren't talked about that much.
And GH Bishop, Richardson, Harvey Peace, Woodrough & McParlin, Wheeler Madden & Clemson, Sheffield Saw Co, Columbia Saw Co, ...
And english saws, although they were often harder to purchase (from the UK) than the US ones. But the handles!!! Oh my.
And I've bumped into a few of the early quite special American saw makers like Bakewell, Holyroyd, ...
And then there's technically interesting saws from Andrews, and Holden patent handles ...

But I don't have a backsaw-collecting itch, much, fortunately

And of course all that is aside from the practical side of learning to use them ... and effectively to sharpen them.

Medication time... heh heh ... hee hee hee ... ha ha ho ...

Paul