Bucksaw made in the woods

[Tank]

Todays project was to make a buck saw

I wanted to use only the knife and the blade to make the buck saw, but i have to admit due to time i did cheat an use the saw on my SAK to speed up the process as i found using the bucksaw blade very slow as i was unable to really put any pressure on the cuts. It would have been possible to do all the cuts with the blade though.

Cutting to length

Cutting a grove in the end for the blade to sit

Cutting the notches with the EnZo

And shaping the crossbar

After that it was the simple part of putting it together

Time for a quick test, sorry for the bad angle but i forgot my stand for the camera, so had to rest the camera on the log I was cutting
[video=youtube;g8Jb-nrm-XQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Jb-nrm-XQ&list=UU5JhzP_2xrfy7FkLwYiaowQ&index=1&feature=plcp[/video]

 

[Peteo]

Looks good! Thank you for sharing

 

[jimbo75]

Proper bushcraft. Nuff said.

 

[Whittler Kev]

I made mine for the BushClass USA challenge which also makes you split wood with only a saw. You are only allowed to use a knife on theirs though so you have to batten the wood to length, etc

also had to make a bowsaw using just the blade (no knife at all)

I got a little damage to one end of the bow saw as the blade tried to pull though even when bound and with the split links, but it held up OK

The other end stayed OK



The notches could have been smaller on the buck saw but it held well and apart from a little movement backwards and forwards when sawing, it did a good job of this old hedge we removed (should be OK to burn in about a year ha ha)



and heres some pictures of the wood I split

It split right up to/from (which ever way you look at it) the stop cuts

Sorry for seeming to hijack the thread. A great tutorial dude :You_Rock_

 

[jackcbr]

That's fantastic. Damn it, another project to do.

 

[Tank]

Thanks all, I am pretty happy with my first attempt, i am sure with practice i will be able to improve my cuts and be quicker. It was something i had been wanting to do for a while and glad to know i dont have to go out and pay a small fortune for a bucksaw.

Thanks for posting Kev, good to see others, i will have to pop over to BCUSA and check out the Bushclass thread.

T.

 

[richardww]

Tank
youve made me decide to make my own, Thanks for sharing,
what is the book you have, in the first pic.
richard

 

[Tank]

Tank
youve made me decide to make my own, Thanks for sharing,
what is the book you have, in the first pic.
richard

Pleasure Richard, its a good little project to do while relaxing in the woods.

The book is Mors Kochanski Bushcraft, however as you can see i didnt follow the one he shows in the end.

 

[woof]

Impressive stuff, all my attempts have failed, so i got the Bob Dunstrum one.

Rob

 

[swotty]

Great work, I might have to give that a go.........

 

[TomBartlett]

Yup, gotta get round to making myself one of those. Thanks for sharing.