The simple Saw Horse (Sawhorse?)

Step 6 Drilling the Counterbores in the top rail.

We want to recess the screws that hold the braces below the top rail. Why? Because there are fewer things that can ruin your relaxing day of woodworking then destroying a blade on your saw by hitting a screw with it.

So we are going to counterbore the holes for the screws on the top rail. If this sounds complicated, its really not. The first picture shows a cut-away version of the top rail. All we are doing is drilling some holes about halfway through the top rail that are larger then the screw heads, which allows them to sit far below the top, and away from things like saw blades. If it looks a little diffrent then the top rail used in the other pictures, its because I built it out of scraps and all I had was 2x6 instead of 2x8.

Comments

[recycleking]

 I'm not old enough to have had to build a sawhorse for my first job interview, but my shop teacher had each student build a sawhorse for the schools' industrial arts wing using only hand tools. A completed sawhorse graduated a person to using power tools. Nice instructable, excellent detail pictures, thanks for returning fond memories.

[lasersage]

this step illustrates your countersink beautifully. Thanks for bothering to chop it up to show us.