How To Make A Classic Carpenter's Sawhorse (By: Herrick Kimball)

I am not a very good carpenter, but watching your videos will help me improve, thanks

Very nice! I'm old enough to remember when building a pair of sawhorses was a job application on the jobsite.

I found you by accident, but I'm glad I did! It's very rare for me to run across people that think like me. You explain things clear and concisely. I will learn much. Thank you!

Bravo! I'm enjoying learning from your videos. I've been building a long time, and like to call what i do scrapentry rather than carpentry. Using lots of salvage/found wood and materials, and employing lil tricks to make it faster. I love you methods, video presentation and these sawhorses are a beautiful introduction to compound angles that I will be recommending to anyone interested in the future. Thanks Herrick!

Your outdoor table saw is exactly like mine.

Brilliant helper block.

Thanks, great tutorial

You're very good at this. I appreciate you taking the time to make the video. Well done. Darren

Your video was flawless just like your sawhorses...Thank you for sharing...Charles

Excellent presentation.

Been building 42” PT horses with bull nose legs gusseted square at the end and collared with PT plywood with no lower stretchers. With the last pair I built I made one shorter and narrower so they nest tight top rail to top rail. Longer horses make handling plywood easier. Gorilla glue has too short a shelf life.

A marvelous sawhorse and perhaps the best one, I saw till date. Thanks for sharing your ideas.

Thank you! How can I get a specification package or pdf mentioned in the video?

I am a new subscriber. Where is the PDF file? Good job

Hedrick, I grew up in Newark Valley, and went to Alfred State - class of ‘87. I studied engineering science and went on to RIT for mechanical engineering. Brother went to ASC (class of ‘77) as did my father when he got back from WWII (class of ‘48). And my roommate studied building trades and drove to wellsville every day. Love the saw horses. I make one longer so they nest cleaner. Thanks for clear instructions. Scott, Vass, NC.

A friend made me a similar horse years ago. He learned that style while in the union school in Chicago. One difference, his style has 1/4" plywood to make the middle braces into a tray.

Really enjoyed watching this and plan to build a couple. Thanks!

Very nice!

Most enjoyable. Excellent crafstmanship with an explicit explanation. Thank you.

Hey: I watched your video, and I really liked the content, detail, and description documenting how to build carpenter's sawhorses...very well done. I am in need of a pair of extra heavy duty sawhorses. Do you have any construction plans for supersizing these sawhorses? Many thanks.

What the angle on the helper block? A and b please

New sub, excellent presentation, very thorough.

I like the video and appreciate the length and detail.
Sawhorses may very well be the first thing many build.

For a tray I prefer hardware cloth as it doesn't collect sawdust.
I only use a tray on one for better stacking.
To stack I make hoses differently
from video and each other. Bottom horse has shorter flush ends, top horse is longer, braces and gussets inboard on
bottom horse, outboard on top horse.
Top horse is longer.
This all makes them nest nicely.

Also I don't rip the entire edges to get the angle just what I need, with a handsaw at ends.

Very nice job😊👍

These were always my preferred horses, if I had a little extra time. Otherwise, if you need to “hit the ground running”, just go with the standard upside down T-top style (not an I-beam). These will take an extra ~20 minutes with the ripping and notching. Unless the horses were going to need to support a ton of weight, I would always go with a single stretcher, instead of both sides. It just makes them a little more comfortable to carry, when moving your set-up (especially if you’re wearing shorts.) The leg splay (A), is 15°. The leg angle (B), relative to the top, is 10°. I know you’re not supposed to do it, but they do make a handy (and relatively comfortable) short scaffold. Just don’t use them for that when the safety director or OSHA is on site 😜.

Good video, I didn't think I would see anyone using that table saw ever. I have one I purchased at a garage sale 40 years ago for $100. It's been a great table saw, still use it.

Fantastic video. Thank you for all of the detail and advice.

Fantastic video. New subscriber. Looking forward to learning from you. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge.

Hello Herrick from the other side of ‘the pond’. Well done in explaining so beautifully slowly and clearly. You make me want to make this just for the joy of making it even though I don’t need one! Just one question if I may, how did you decide 29” is good for you? Is it a proportion of your personal height, perfect for working on you ceiling or something? Many thanks and. Best wishes from 🇬🇧.

Thank you. I learnt a lot

Excellent video, with very concise instructions. I bought the plans and have my A-B block all set, thank you for the miter angles. As the other comments mention, I made one wider so they stack perfectly. Jim

Great video, clearly explained and presented producing an outstanding saw horse.

You don’t tell us the angles to make the little template

Awsome Video . Thx so much

Built 4 of these today only I didn't read carefully before I started. Thought the top 2x6 was 36 inches long. It is 33" in your plans so when I got to the long side braces, mine were cut too short. I could have moved the pieces up 3.5" but I decided to cut long side braces 34-9/16" and then used the scraps to make the end pieces for another 5 saw horses. I made all my angle cuts and mortises on a table saw and a cross cut sled. I screwed a strip of wood to the B angle and cut my legs and long side braces and mortices then repositioned the strip to the A angle and cut all my end pieces. The only other trick I use is to make screw hole layout tools by making one extra piece of all the pieces and screw in screws so they stick through by 1/16" or so and I can just line up my tool against the piece to be marked and I press the tool on and voila my next piece is instantly marked and center punched for drilling.

This is a great video. My only nit-picking comment is that there is no "th" in height. I don't know why, but that drives me nuts. In all seriousness, though, I loved this video.

Does the pdf include modification & best cuts of wood?

Im wondering if i could make this slightly larger

Vielen Dank aus Deutschland. Wir in Deutschland, sagen dazu Böcke. Aber solch gute Qualität, wie in Deinem Video, gibt es die nicht zu kaufen. Also mache ich diesen mir jetzt selbst. In verschiedenen Höhen. in verschiedenen Stärken. Nochmals, vielen Dank.

Thank you.

Thank you very much, I learned wonderful things from you.

Can't see the classic horse plan advertised. How do I get it?

Yes, that is a proper sawhorse!
I shake my head when i see videos of how to build saw horses that don't have compound legs which are less strong and tippy, potentially dangerous.

This man is so confident in building sawhorse. He has gained that confident by building planty sawhorses over the years...so I trust him when it comes to building sawhorses...
Thanks Herrick

This will be a good project

Where is the PDF for this project

Impressive
Would you mind showing the pdf 3d sketch

Really interesting..

My dad received a beautiful set of horses crafted by the cabinet shop at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island several decades ago. Remarkably, they still stand today, having withstood the test of time and frequent use. Inspired by their exceptional quality and durability, I've decided to create my own set for personal projects. My home, built in 1946, is currently undergoing renovation, and I'm proudly restoring it to its original 1940s charm with the tools and ways of that time,