Buck Saw
Guy Radford May 1st, 2011
This weekend was a making weekend, yesterday I made a steel to use with flint for making fire and today I made a Buck Saw.
I have been planning my Buck Saw for several months. My main requirement was that the blade had to be protected and it would needed very little assembly. I did not want it to fiddly or to many little bits that could get dropped or lost. The blade needed to stay part of the saw at all times even when packed away. So after a few hours of fettling in the garage I has myself a Buck Saw.
I am still looking at the design and works and already have a few minor adjustments. In the photo you will see that the tensioning cord ends are both hooked over the same end, this makes it easier to use the same cord to tie up the folded saw. Also the tensioning bar needs a hole for the cord to pass though so that it cant be lost.
I have used dowels to hold the middle bar in place, next time I intend to make it out of one piece and carve it to shape.
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