how do you build a sawbuck?

Question

it does not have to be pretty-diagrams or pictures would really help

Answer 1

I don't know how to build a $10.00 bill, but if your talking about the other kind of sawbuck (sometimes called a sawhorse) you can buy the metal strong points at Home Depot. Once you buy the metal frame all you have to do is install 2X4 wood into the slots on the metal strong points.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

screws, plywood (or pine), 2 x 4's. I wil look for a diagam
Here are some good images of finished product, so you know what to aim for:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=picture+of+a+sawbuck&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8

Here is a great job of building one, picture by picture:
http://www.ericsprojects.com/gallery/nfpicturepro/displayimage.php?album=6&pos=1

Here is a sawbuck packsaddle!
http://www.packsaddleshop.com/ProSawbuck%20PS.htm

Or, how about a sawbuck table:?
http://www.furnituredesigns.com/127128.htm

Just what kind of sawbuck? And I hope you do not mean a sawhorse.

Answer 4

This happens to the best of us. Once I was making a sandwhich when all of a sudden, just like The Shining, I saw two shelves staring at me from down the hall. When I went to see all there was only two nails and a piece of wet driftwood. Anyway I made my sandwhich on my paper shelf, then cut it in fourths (as is my wont) with my best silvershelf. Then I sat down to eat my shelf-on-shelf action. Then I heard a noise up the stairs. As I climb the shelf, I realize that a precariously balanced shelf had fallen down and rolled down the shelf. I put it back on the shelf with the other shelves. Then I went to Ikea because I needed a new shelf. I then discovered that all employees there are prisoners. They each had once been another lonely customer trapped in the store after closing time, stuck wandering the shelves until the employees (formerly customers) came in the night and enslaved them to sell fancy shelves to very poor orphans. However, the process changed with me and they made me into a shelf, before feeding me to the shelf-powered firepit. Soon I shall escape and turn the world into shelves. Our plan is almost completed. And when our shelf supply finally runs out, we shall open an extremely aggressively advertised buffet called Haloo Snackbar. IKEA WILL REIN SUPREME ALL HAIL THE PENULTIMATE POWER OF THE SHELF!!!!!!!

Answer 5

The easiest way (because you don't have to make any precision cuts) is to buy the two metal brackets that form a saw horse kit.

You cut four 2x6 to the lengh you want (probably about 30 " long). Then you nail or screw a pair of them to each of the brackets to form the legs.

Then you cut another 2x6 for the top making it about 3 feet long. Fasten it to the top of the brackets with nails or screws.

When you stand it up you have a sawhorse without much effort. If it is too high shorten the 4 legs till you like its height.

Answer 6

I know what you're talking about, and have been in the trades forever, but seeing your Q I have to offer this silly answer... Forgive me.

"Willie", my grandfather quoted, though perhaps not originally,,, "If you want to double your money, fold it up and put it back in your pocket."
As a child I was never blessed to have a 'sawbuck" (a $10 bill) BUT I like the idea of doubling,,,many things.

Thanks for the recalled memory.

Rev. Steven

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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