>Gentle galoots,
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>My current saw storage system is 3 huge nails that hold several saws each.
>I want to build a sawtill, and have a design in mind but would like to see
>what is out there.
I haven't built mine yet, but I did get a blueprint from a guy who made one
that I really like. I used his when I was in his shop one day and I really
liked it. It was printed up in a woodworking magazine years ago. This
rack will NOT work for people like Bruce VS who has more saws than Paul
Bunyan's legions. But for the AVERAGE galoot who manages to get by with 10
or less this is a sweet design.
I'll TRY to do a little ascii art here, but without TAAK at my side,
...well, it won't be pretty.
The basic idea is to create a rack with slots in it, and each slot has a
gravity driven plunger placed at an angle so that when it drops down it
penetrates the slot where the saw hangs. YOu remove the saw by pushing up
and out. YOu replace the saw by pushing up until the plunger drops back
into the handhole in the saw handle, and then just let go. OK, here
goes.........
3/4 X 6" board mounted on wall plunger
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Of course the fine points of the design involve making it work smoothly and
having a plunger design of suficient mass, while not having something that
will mar the handle with repeated use. I only drew the one plunger, but
obviously there would be one in every block. Sufficiently confusing?
Cheers
Tom
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