Recommended sawhorse/sawhorse brackets?

[GarF]

I've got a mirror dinghy to renovate over the winter and I need some new trestles to sit it on while I work. It would be useful to have it low enough to reach the inside while it's the right way up, but be able to raise it up a decent bit when it's turned over to do the bottom (some jobs are easier to do working underneath the upturned hull).

I was thinking about using the brackets which fit sections of 2x4 - would be flexible in terms of height and replaceable when they get banged up, just wondering if there are any better options out there?
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[MikeG.]

Make your own. It's a quick apprentice piece, and any woodworker worth their salt can make them just with a handsaw, a mallet and chisel, and a screwdriver. Mine are ready for another new top:

 

[Woodchips2]

IKEA do this trestle design with an adjustable height https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/des ... -00225293/ which would be simple to make.
Regards Keith

 

[GarF]

Make your own. It's a quick apprentice piece, and any woodworker worth their salt can make them just with a handsaw, a mallet and chisel, and a screwdriver. Mine are ready for another new top:


True. Was thinking of folding ones as my old ones (cobbled together in the kitchen of my student flat when by rights I should have been revising for finals or at least concentrating on the New Yankee Workshop) are almost always in the way of something else in the garage.

But while I price up the timber and estimate the time it'd take me, what is the splay on the legs, and are the ends raked at the same angle? I'm assuming you used 2x4 with 2x6 for the top.
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[MikeG.]

Dunno, dunno, and yes.

 

[Tasky]

But while I price up the timber and estimate the time it'd take me, what is the splay on the legs, and are the ends raked at the same angle? I'm assuming you used 2x4 with 2x6 for the top.
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I think that sort of info is in Paul Sellers' build video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ultj5I1d7zw

 

[merlin]

"trigonometry for saw horses"

This is the way I do them, they last for years.

Merlin

 

[MikeG.]

........I'm assuming you used 2x4 with 2x6 for the top.

I happened to see today that the legs are ex 3x2, not 4x2. The angles? Yeah, about that much, or a tad more. Whatever ad hoc angle I opened the mitre gauge to.

 

[Sideways]

Look at the toughbuilt range - strong enough for the dinghy, fold up when not in use and height adjustable.