How to Locate Simple Woodworking Plans for a Sawhorse

Series Summary

There are few greater feelings for a man than taking a high-powered table saw and slicing a defenseless piece of wood in half--which is why knowing how to build a sawhorse is so important. Sawhorses can be found on large commercial construction sites as well as at a Dad's workbench in the garage. They are a must for anyone doing any type of building and construction.

In this free instructional video, Expert Village construction specialist Jon Olson teaches how to build a sawhorse. He teaches how to find the building plans, tools and materials needed; how to cut and attach the I Beam, legs, sides and end; and finally how to use a sawhorse. If you are a carpenter, construction worker, handyman, or if you just like cutting pieces of wood in half with power tools, then watch this series and start building a sawhorse today!

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Jon on behalf of Expert Village. In this video clip I will be showing you how to find plans for sawhorses. What I am looking for is simple woodworking plans. I like to turn to the Internet and I will type in sawhorse plans and this will bring up different sawhorse plans websites. If I click on the first one, it should bring up a plan for a sawhorse here and if I scroll down it gives me my lengths and my measurements in addition to my directions. If I keep going through some other plans, I will come across some websites that have the plans but you have to either pay or become a member. I typically don't look at these unless there is a plan that I really like. One website that I recommend is about.com. They have a lot of good informational resources and I came across this set of ultimate wood sawhorses. Once you find the website, you will come up with the designs and if you scroll down it will give you a brief description of it as well as all the directions. Now our completed sawhorses are actually going to be two separate sawhorses that stack on top of each other and I think this is a real unique design because when using sawhorses you always have to have two and to be abkle to stack them to be able to save space. "