Thread: WIP - Sawbench

Thanks for that. Sorry if I seem nit-picketty ... just seeing if I might be missing something.

I was thinking about the legs and the ?rebate? that they fit into, trying to imagine each way. (There must be a more proper word than 'rebate'?)

If you could cut the rebate correctly, then you could glue in the leg uncut at the top, then saw and plane it down level afterwards - eliminating one angle set-out.

You could cut the rebate with a vertical inside face (three really), position the leg at the required angle and scribe the vertical onto the top area of your leg ... but I guess that would leave you with a slightly less meaty leg than keeping it the full profile.

And of course you could use a bevel gauge, mark out the angles, saw accurately and whack it all together perfectly.

I'm thinking this through because I taught at a local trade college for a short time (maths not cabinet-making ) and the students each had to make a saw-horse with legs that angled out both sideways and lengthways ... maybe 15 degrees each.

I'd been shown their working diagrams and asked if I had another way of explaining the process. Well I tried to think about it, but I had no woodworking experience at all then, so it kinda slipped back into the dark recesses and had lodged there until now.

Hmmmm ...

Cya
Paul McGee