How To Build the Best Trestle (Japanese) Sawhorses (Sawstalllions) -  Uses Microjig Matchfit Clamps
Channel: Small Workshop Guy
Date: 2020-03-28

The best sawhorses for woodworking are trestle style or Japanese style, sturdy, stackable Sawstallions that use Matchfit Dovetail Grooves in all the faces.  Dog holes are great in the top as well. This is an ideal early or first project for many beginning woodworkers.  These "Sawstallions" (saw horses on steroids) can be put in a corner when not needed but yet be oh so helpful much of the time.  A good pair of portable sawhorses (or saw horses, if you prefer) can become one of a woodworkers most used workshop or woodshop tools supplementing their table saw and main workbench.   With the Dovetail Grooves combined with the Matchfit Clamps, they can hold so many things and work as a vise as well.   The ones I built here are from 2 sheets of 3/4" Baltic Birch (or Russian Birch).  Only a table saw and router are needed for this build.   In the workshop build, the simple mortises and tenons are formed vs. chiseled putting them in the reach of all beginner skill levels.  I believe these are the best, most versatile saw horses you can build.  

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