{"id":198,"date":"2018-10-13T23:25:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T22:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2025-09-28T09:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:46:36","slug":"workshop-one-day-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Workshop: One-Day Project – Saw Rack"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a midday trip to Kings Lynn, with Teresa, to visit three antiques shops, I decided I wanted to build a one-day workshop project.<\/p>\n

I considered doing a saw bench. But I think that’ll be next, and it’ll be a two-day (or more) project, I reckon. Instead I settled on a saw-rack. I was inspired by James Wright, but made mine smaller, simpler, and rougher, knowing I’d be painting it, not leaving it in raw wood form.<\/p>\n

\"Saw
Gluing up my one-day saw-rack.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is one of my many ‘jazz’ style workshop\/DIY projects, inasmuch as I didn’t really plan too much or at all, really – I just grabbed what was to hand, and improvised. So nothing was set to a certain length, and then measured, etc.<\/p>\n

Of course I did measure and reference parts relative to each other, e.g. when finding the width for the grooved saw-rest beam. And the overall size was determined first by the length of my longest saw, giving an approx. height of the frame, and second by a guess-timate of what width I might want, based on currently having  five or six saws that’ll probably wind up in here.<\/p>\n

\"Saw-rack
Adding the blade-rest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As it is, there’s room for nine saws of a similar size to most of the ones I currently have. I may need to add a second blade-rest beam, lower down, for shorter saws. I only have one such at present, and it’s still mid-restoration, awaiting sharpening, and possibly even further handle strengthening.<\/p>\n

The top and sides are plywood, the bottom is chipboard, and the beam and dowel are soft white woods, probably pine. As mentioned above, I just worked with whatever scrap wood I had on hand. And I had very little choice, since not much of my available wood was appropriately sized or shaped.<\/p>\n

\"Dowel
The large diameter dowel handle rail, 20mm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As can be seen from pictures at the top of this post, I didn’t have long enough clamps (another future project!), so had to ‘clamp’ this using ratcheting straps or belts.<\/p>\n

The top and bottom panels are currently just glued to the sides using routed out dado joints. The dowel handle-rail is set in circular holes. And the blade-rest beam is butt-joints glued up, with two additional thin custom wooden dowels in each end, also glued in, to strengthen the joints.<\/p>\n

\"Saw
Painting the saw-rack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And finally, whilst Teresa watched The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring, I glued up, drilled holes for and inserted dowels, did a little sanding, and then painted the thing in a Valspar off-white called, rather nicely I think, Elk Antler.<\/p>\n

\"Saw
Blade-rest channels cleaned out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had to clean out the paint from the blade-rest channels, which was fiddly and time consuming, and will possibly need doing again, if I apply a second coat of paint. Actually they’re only the width of the recently restored rip-saw’s kerf, and will likely need opening up a bit more anyway.<\/p>\n

Mounting this and getting some saws into it will have to wait till tomorrow. But I’m pretty chuffed, as I did actually build (and even paint) a project from start to finish, in just one day. Indeed, really in just the latter half of the day.<\/p>\n

\"Saw
The unit up-ended, so I can paint the bottom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Admittedly it’s a bit rough and rustic. But hey, it’s just a box for storing saws. And besides, I learn something – often quite a bit, thanks to my many mistakes! – on each new project, so it’s all good. Pictured above is how it looks now, at 23:24, or close of play for today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a midday trip to Kings Lynn, with Teresa, to visit three antiques shops, I decided I wanted to build a one-day workshop project. I considered doing a saw bench. But I think that’ll be next, and it’ll be a two-day (or more) project, I reckon. Instead I settled on a saw-rack. I was inspired … <\/p>\n

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