Hello there curious wood workers of Roblox, WoodReviewer here with day 11 of my 2023 Advent Calendar. I know today’s gift is a bit late, but in my defense I had a pie for lunch and then took a nap. No, that isn’t a good defense, but pie. Anyway, onto today’s gift.

It is a set of sawhorses. And not just a set in the sense that a single sawhorse is useless, but two sets of two sawhorses.

Now I’m sure some of you have questions have why two sets, and the answer is because they represent Eastern(Japanese) vs Western(Europe/USA) sawhorses. You see, in the West nails and screws have been more prevalent in buildings for the last thousand years or so, so the one with trigonal legs was more common. In reality, the legs are nailed into the central boards connecting them, with the only cuts being at the tops and bottoms of the legs to make them flush with floor/top of the sawhorse.

Meanwhile, in the East, mainly Japan, nails were rarer due to several culteral things I am not qualified to talk about, and the fact it is an island so coal/iron were in shorter supply. This sawhorse then has more 90 degree angles, which you would think would make the cuts easier, but in actuality they are harder because the joints are cut from the wood. So the base, for example, would have a hole cut in it with the leg having the end trimmed to fit in that hole. Then the top of the legs are split, allow the top to fit right inside the legs with little outside support.

Functionally, this makes little difference. Both do the same job: hold up wooden boards so you can cut them. I even made both the same height, so that they can be used interchangeably.

Well, that is all for today. Again, sorry for eating pie and taking a nap, and then making it worse by double checking my facts for like an hour to give you a basic lesson in the difference between Japanese and Western wood working methodologies, but that just is how it goes sometimes.