Buck saw

Red oak and para cord. Attachment 9825

Very cool. You did a great job on it!

Thank you!

Very nice work....have seen guys carry the blade, then bush craft a frame on site.....

Nicely done Reb.

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Originally Posted by hunter63

...have seen guys carry the blade, then bush craft a frame on site.....

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That's how I had my blades, in a bag ready to go. Then, I went to a general store museum. They all kinds of tools displayed. I saw a buck saw and thought I'd try to make one. Now, I'm making another one. Something to do besides shovel snow.

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Originally Posted by rebel

That's how I had my blades, in a bag ready to go. Then, I went to a general store museum. They all kinds of tools displayed. I saw a buck saw and thought I'd try to make one. Now, I'm making another one. Something to do besides shovel snow.

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Those repetitive chores sure can get tedious. I might have to make one as well --- getting tired of smearing on sun screen.

Do you employ more of a tenon for the stabilizer or is it notched? The first one I made had shallow notches and didnt work well

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Originally Posted by rebel

That's how I had my blades, in a bag ready to go. Then, I went to a general store museum. They all kinds of tools displayed. I saw a buck saw and thought I'd try to make one. Now, I'm making another one. Something to do besides shovel snow.

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I hear ya, good use of time.....

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Originally Posted by JT Handcraft

Do you employ more of a tenon for the stabilizer or is it notched? The first one I made had shallow notches and didnt work well

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Just a notch on this one. It worked fine on some birch. My second one has a tenon.

Added some stain: Attachment 9830

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Originally Posted by crashdive123

...smearing on sun screen.

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Sounds slippery.

Got some dimensions on that? I'm mainly curious as to blade length and distance from blade to crossbar.

Looks to me like a 21" blade and about 8"-9" to from the back of the blade to the cross bar.

Attachment 9833 This one is made from maple with the cross support using mortise and tenon joints. It's a better and sturdier set-up. I still need to make the spinner thingy. These have a twelve inch saw blade.

Rebel, you might consider a book called Ancient Carpenter's Tools by Henry Mercer. 0-486-40958-9. It's a great book and I've made more than one tool just from pictures in it. It's a great resource for forging as well. It has a lot of different jigs and forging tools. The old guys were pretty darn clever. Necessity, invention and all.

http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Carpen.../dp/0486409589

Thanks for the link Rick. I'll check it out. When I went to Williamsburg I found a similar book and made a shaving horse from the plans. Unfortunately, it didn't make the move. I've been thinking about making another one.

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Originally Posted by crashdive123

Looks to me like a 21" blade and about 8"-9" to from the back of the blade to the cross bar.

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The size of the teeth in relation to the length of the blade itself was what started me wondering: the teeth seemed kinda big for anything larger than one of the 12" hacksaw-compatible buck saw blades. I made a take-down style buck saw a while back but it dont compare anywhere in looks to rebel's saw. Maybe in cutting power ( I used a 21" blade) but not appearance. Nice work, rebel.

Thanks. I definitely want to do larger saws. I had these blades and thought it would be a place to start and learn.

Here's my first try at a take down buck saw. I used a 21" blade and a piece of all-thread for the tightener:http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/...psab2c61b5.jpg

It all fit's in a chair bag:
http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6c32349e.jpg

I split a piece of rubber tubing to cover the blade during storage.