Elevating a Saw Till

[lilrichard2]

I have a problem with saws - too many - especially those that fit a miter box. They were a pain to store, so I decided to build another saw till, especially for those pesky miter-box saws.

I looked over the wood pile, found some old pine shelving from yesteryear ran it through the planer to clean it up a little.




Made a till, actually a box, to hold the saws.








There's enough room there for several saws, but there's absolutely no wall space in my basement shop for another saw till, so I decided to elevate it. Ahhh, there's a free spot between some floor joists.





A couple of hinge and a means of holding the other end up, and bingo!





Neatly tucked away.





Now, to determine a way to store these beauties.





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[Window Guy]

Richard that is a clever idea, good job. I am in the same boat with no wall space. Since we don't have basements in Florida no bare ceiling joists. I have drywalled 9' ceilings in my garage / shop. But then again I don't have that many saws either but I do need to make a decent saw till one of these days and make room somewhere.


Steve

[Phil S.]

I've thought of doing a similar thing on a smaller scale to store odds and ends in the joist bays in my shop. Lots of potential space for things I'd like to keep handy, but not necessarily in sight.

[Gregory of Sherwood Forest]

Richard, I've had boxes like that holding all manner of construction and ww materials in my shop ceiling between the joists for about 8 years, but never thought to put a saw till in one. Brilliant. I have saw racks taking up wayyyy too much of my floorspace, and may have to 'borrow' this idea of yours.

[Bill_Houghton]

Gregory of Sherwood Forest said:

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I have saw racks taking up wayyyy too much of my floorspace...

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But surely this doesn't mean you have too many saws...

[Gregory of Sherwood Forest]

Bill_Houghton said:

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[blockquote]Gregory of Sherwood Forest said:

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I have saw racks taking up wayyyy too much of my floorspace...

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But surely this doesn't mean you have too many saws...

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I didn't say that...

[DaveParkis]

Excellent idea. I almost wish I hadn't sheetrocked my ceiling.

[gMike]

I like your idea but in my case I'd put a plexiglas bottom on the box and use it for storing hardware, extra planes (of which I have way too many), and whatever else would fit.

[Gregory of Sherwood Forest]

Actually, gMike's comment just gave me an idea for a modification. To store saws, it wouldn't NEED a bottom. You could just have a few rails go across the box, with kerfs for the saws to sit in, and that way you could actually still see the saws from below.