The buck saw is a extremely useful tool when camping in winter, when its cold an you need more firewood for the long night or its wet and you need to process larger logs to get to the dry wood inside. The bucksaw allows you to process a large amount of wood with ease and relatively quickly.
As buck saws are very simple to make I carry just the blade with two bolts with wing nuts and make the saw when in camp.
Mors Kochanski Bush Craft book has a great diagram and instruction on how to make a buck saw.
First job was cutting the hazel to length, using the saw blade with out an tension on the blade was a bit tricky.
Cutting a grove in the end of the upright for the blade to sit in.
Finally the grove was deep enough for the blade to sit in.
Cutting the notches for the horizontal bar.
and a notch for the bolt to sit in to hold the blade in place
The horizontal bar took a bit of adjustment to sit correctly in the notches.
After that it was the simple part of putting it together
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